City and town planning: architectural aspects

Design Against Crime will aid the design profession to meet the challenges presented by the competing needs and complex systems around crime and security.

The home is one of our most enduring human paradoxes and is brought to light tellingly in science-fiction (SF) writing and film.

Territoire de prédilection de développement axé sur le transport en commun (Transit-oriented development), la banlieue est toutefois moins formellement remise en question que revisitée.

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities.

During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities.

Taking the view that aesthetics is a study grounded in perception, the essays in this volume exhibit many sides of the perceptual complex that is the aesthetic field and develop them in different ways.

When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist.

Ebenezer Howard is recognised as a pioneer of town planning throughout the industrialised world; Britain's new towns, deriving from the garden cities he founded, are his monument.

Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales.

Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century.

Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe.

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event.

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

Historically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city.

Peter Eisenman is one of the most controversial protagonists of the architectural scene, who is known as much for his theoretical essays as he is for his architecture.

In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.

The contributions in this volume map out how technologies are used and designed to plan, maintain, govern, demolish, and destroy the city.

Tief unter den Straßen von Paris, verborgen vor den Blicken der hektischen Metropole, erstreckt sich ein Labyrinth, das seit Jahrhunderten Zeugnis von der engen Verknüpfung von Geschichte, Geologie und Kultur ablegt: die Pariser Katakomben.

Market: architects; engineers; project managers; general contractors; cost estimators; property and real estate managers; facility managers; property developersInternational appeal: includes 25 project profiles from the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, China, and IndiaThirty key players share their experiences and lessons learned from working on green building projects

Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Kenya, Uganda and Bangladesh and contested 'informal' enclaves and communities in the cities of India, China, Brazil, Nigeria and South Africa, this book challenges current ways of thinking about the governance of human settling, mobility and placemaking.

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

Die bissige Attacke, die Rudolf Schwarz 1953 gegen Gropius und das Bauhaus führte, hat, was polemische Schärfe wie vor allem auch deren Auswirkung betrifft, hierzulande kaum ihresgleichen.

Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture.

"¿Qué me decías?

Perched along the banks of the Tiber River, Castel Sant'Angelo stands as a silent witness to nearly two millennia of Roman history.

The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user.

This book provides a compelling and insightful portrait of ten female architects, artists, and designers who explored unique approaches to teaching, practice, and research in the postindustrial city of Detroit.

Historically researchers of neuroscience and psychology have believed that the cerebral cortex produces the unique mental capacities of human beings.

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places.

This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and sustainable.

In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

Du Québec à la Colombie-Britannique, cet ouvrage compare les tendances et les perspectives de la dernière décennie en études urbaines à travers et au-delà des disciplines.

City of Play shows how play is built into the very fabric of the modern city.

The Companion to Public Space draws together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of specially commissioned chapters that offer the state of the art in the intellectual discourse, scholarship, research, and principles of understanding in the construction of public space.

Arguing that a gulf exists between design and construction, between conceptual thinking and the constructed building, this book explores projects and practices that span the gap by thinking through materials and processes with what Howeler calls a tectonic imagination.

Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis.

Activating Urban Waterfronts shows how urban waterfronts can be designed, managed and used in ways that can make them more inclusive, lively and sustainable.

The past few decades have seen universities take on a leading role in urban development, actively providing public services beyond teaching and research.

Daylight, Design and Place-Making examines the role of daylight in creating and revealing the wonders of heritage and contemporary architecture.

Urban Transformations through Exceptional Architecture focusses on the nexus between architecturally exceptional projects and the city.

This clear text provides a broad introduction to transportation geography.

Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in cities across the world.