City & town planning - architectural aspects books

The first book to uncover the hidden post-colonial history of architecture and urban planning in the Arctic.  Read More >>

a+u's July issue features landscape urbanism in France. Since the 1970s, the pioneering generation of Michel Corajoud,...  Read More >>

The old master drew two lines and two arcs on a sheet of paper. Peering up at his young apprentice, he asked, ""Can...  Read More >>

Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyses two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey,...  Read More >>

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This book explores the contentious geographies of innovation, productions and working spaces, both empirically and...  Read More >>

The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of critical ideas about urban form and design that began...  Read More >>

Using Rio de Janeiro as the case study city, this book highlights and examines issues surrounding the development...  Read More >>

This book explores how to resolve this issue, to reduce overall costs and increase sustainability, by further embedding...  Read More >>

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer...  Read More >>

An alternative view of Islamic cities that challenges the Western conception of them as labyrinthine  Read More >>

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and...  Read More >>

Camillo Sitte (1843-1903) was a noted Austrian architect, painter and theoretician who exercised great influence...  Read More >>

The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city...  Read More >>

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Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced Le Construction...  Read More >>

This book explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create...  Read More >>

The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period.  Read More >>

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban...  Read More >>

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The book examines institutional innovation of urban regeneration in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai, three Chinese...  Read More >>

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture...  Read More >>

New York in Cinematic Imagination is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the...  Read More >>

Guest-edited by Marcus White and Jane Burry Cities are facing several coinciding global crises. There is the dominant...  Read More >>