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London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River Effra was one of these vanishings. This book begins with the river's underlying geology and pre-history and continues throu
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. Fo...
In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built en...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALICE DAVIS HITCHCOCK AWARD'Brilliant' Elain Harwood'Part history, part aesthetic autobiography, wholly engaging and liable to con...
The Garden City Movement provided a radical new model for the design and layout of housing at the turn of the nineteenth century and set standards for...
The MIT based SENSEable City Lab under Carlo Ratti is one of the research centers that deal with the flow of people and goods, but also of refuse...
Venice, one of the world's most famous places, has a dual nature of real city and myth. It is suspended in the struggle between sea and soil and unabl...
'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon'Such an interesting book . . . I cannot...
Urban design is based on planning and design principles that need to meet functional demands on the one hand, but on the other hand bring the des...
In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.
The fascinating untold story of how Nazi architects and planners envisioned and began to build a model Aryan society in Norway during World War IIBe...
A complete glimpse into the Fluvial Metropolis initiative;; a research program on the future of water infrastructure and its potential effects on ur...
Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed a...
Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality o...
As NYC's Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world s greatest, ...
This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how p...
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The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of commun...
With Design is Invisible, Lucius Burckhardt was one of the first to point out that factors that are invisible can be integrated - they determine the u...
Entwurfliche Eingriffe in bestehende Bauten stehen immer vor der Frage nach der Gegenwart der Vergangenheit: Wie soll das Alte im Neuen aufschein...