Products In City & town planning: architectural aspects (Total Products 117, Showing: 1 -> 32)
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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...
Acclaimed as a masterly exposition of the making of the much quoted, photographed, studied and loved townscapes of Georgian Edinburgh, A. J. Youngson'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use...
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...
Following his book Against Architecture (PM Press, 2012), Franco La Cecla explores the challenges that cities must confront in the near future. Urban ...
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...
Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as clim...
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...
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...
'A great storyteller . . . you would be hard pushed to find a more knowledgeable or entertaining [guide]' Icon 'Such an interesting book . . . I ca...
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...
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 ...