Products In City & town planning: architectural aspects (Total Products 74, Showing: 1 -> 20)
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In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime's thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built en...
A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary cityMichael Sorkin is one of the most forthright and engaging architectural wri...
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...
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 aufscheinen? D...
The Towns of Malaya examines the history, development, planning and architecture of the major towns of Peninsular Malaysia. The book is divided into c...
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
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALICE DAVIS HITCHCOCK AWARD'Brilliant' Elain Harwood'Part history, part aesthetic autobiography, wholly engaging and liable to con...
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...
In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, a...
We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, more than half of the landmass of the planet is urbanized, and the ...
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...
The classic work that introduced the concept of the Garden City.
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...
Gerontopia examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations of...
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 history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essay...
The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change. This book is intended to serve as a robust ...
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...