City and town planning: architectural aspects

Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of "e;neo-avant-garde"e; architecture.

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety.

Machen Sie einen Spaziergang durch den schönsten Frankfurter Park, den Hauptfriedhof, und lernen Sie dabei die Stadtgeschichte kennen!

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

International Exhibitions and Urbanism provides an insightful and comprehensive historical review of international exhibitions in its first half, which is then illustrated with a thorough technical analysis of the Zaragoza 2008 project in its second half.

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change.

Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture.

What, exactly, is leadership?

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment.

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment.

What makes the city of the future?

The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them.

Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries.

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process?

This book presents human factors research focused on achieving and assessing sustainability in the built environment and architecture.

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.

Mit Sankt Fronleichnam in Aachen und Sankt Anna in Düren hat Rudolf Schwarz die Baukunst im Abstand eines Vierteljahrhunderts um zwei sakrale Utopien bereichert.

This book highlights the key phases and central findings of Alzheimer's Disease research since the introduction of the label 'Alzheimer's Disease' in 1910.

Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners

The current phase of capitalist development manifests itself through a very diverse range of spatial byproducts: data centers, warehouses, container terminals, logistics parks, and many others.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of long COVID fatigue using advanced neuroimaging and artificial intelligence (AI).

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries.

For more than two hundred years hotels have played a significant role in American history.

First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research.

Braunschweig abseits der bisher bekannten Plätze und Prachtbauten: Zeichnungen eines Unbekannten enthüllen detailliert das Aussehen und das Leben der Stadt vor 260 Jahren.

Dieses Buch wendet sich nicht an den Amerikaspezialisten, sondern an diejenigen politisch Interessierten, die mit Erstaunen und Verwun­ derung, manchmal vielleicht auch mit Befremden und Enttäuschung das letzte Jahrzehnt der amerikanischen Geschichte verfolgt haben.

This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle to improve understandings of ageism.

Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures.

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health.

The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability.

During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour immigration and national identity.

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century.

The City on Display: Architecture Festivals and the Urban Commons reflects on the biennials, triennials, and other festivals of architecture and design that have been held over the last two decades, as they expand and transform in response to the exigencies of 'planetary urbanisation'.

This book explores the tenacity of Iran's informal settlements against the backdrop of the World Bank's USD 80 million loan for physical upgrading.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a 'mobilities turn'.

Im Rahmen des Fortschrittskollegs Energieeffizienz im Quartier wurde das Thema von 11 DoktorandInnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen untersucht.

In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge.

Este libro ahonda en una época definitiva en la vida de Rogelio Salmona.

This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment in the twentyfirst century.

Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice?

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.