Products In City & town planning: architectural aspects (Total Products 121, Showing: 1 -> 50)
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Books orient, intrigue, provoke and direct the reader while editing, interpreting, encapsulating, constructing and revealing architectural representat...
In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built en...
The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have trans...
'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon 'Such an interesting book . . . I ca...
For many young planners, the noble intentions with going to planning school seem starkly out of place in the neoliberal worlds they have come to inhab...
A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural wri...
CAZA + SURBA: When Urbanization Comes to Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and think ta...
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...
Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to pla...
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...
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...
Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations....
This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how pra...
Flood risk is increasing across the UK and globally. This book offers a highly visual guide to flood resilience, and the options available for adaptat...
This book reveals how the Aga Khan Development Network and its Historic Cities Programme transformed an area of Cairo's urban blight into a dynamic pu...
Eleanor Herring's unique study of street furniture in post-war Britain considers how objects which are now familiar parts of our urban environment wer...
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...
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...
Over the past six or more decades, John Friedmann has been an insurgent force in the field of urban and regional planning, transforming it from its tr...
The Cadogan Estate in Chelsea is one of the few remaining ancient family estates in London, covering one of the capital's most dynamic, thriving and f...
Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel's colonial occupationThis new edition of the classic work on the politics of architectu...
From street-markets and pop-up shops to art installations and Olympic parks, the temporary use of urban space is a growing international trend in arch...
As NYC's Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world s greatest, ...
Curated and designed by the experts at The London Transport Museum, this collection showcases the 100 best transport design icons, and accompanies the Museum's 'Designology' gallery.
Following his book Against Architecture (PM Press, 2012), Franco La Cecla explores the challenges that cities must confront in the near future. Urban ...
The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool ...
The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essay...
Cities of the North explores the changing townscape, special character, architecture and planning of the great Northern English cities. It is a compan...
The first-hand, behind-the-scenes account of the creative inspiration behind the High Line, the transformative public 'park in the sky' that has resha...
Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, façade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, ...
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Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all a...
The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the compr...
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...
Calton Hill, on the eastern edge of Edinburgh's centre, has a special relationship with the city. Development of the hill and its surrounding area(oft...
This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context...
The Towns of Malaya examines the history, development, planning and architecture of the major towns of Peninsular Malaysia. The book is divided into c...
In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, a...
The Harvard GSD Aecom Project on China was a three-year research and design project premised on two fundamental ambitions: recuperating an idea of the...
Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability. They address the fundamental que...
This book highlights radical urban transformation in eight cities spread across continental Europe. The point of departure, and the foundation of Euro...
Architect Angelo Bucci presents projects in his native Sao Paulo and abroad. Advocating an architecture that is 'the opposite of global action', his work responds to the topography of the city and to its urban environment.
Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the centu...
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our livesEverywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at...
A 2016 Green Book Festival Future Forecasts Winner and 2017 Silver Nautilus Book Award WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a ...
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.
Intended as a 'one stop shop' of a veritable who's who of
leading urban agriculture authors and scholars, this book brings together
multiple contribut...
In this exposition of the making of the much quoted, photographed, studied and loved townscapes of Georgian Edinburgh, A.J. Youngson recreates and brings to life one of the most comprehensive, detailed and remarkable urban expansion programmes ever undertaken.
Color is a ubiquitous yet essential part of the city, creating and shaping urban form. Who can forget the whites of modernist Brasilia? The greens of ...
Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned single-industry towns that e...