Sustainability has become the key challenge for urban planners, housing and infrastructure policy makers. Citizens are increasingly encouraged to live more compactly; in denser ...
When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the ...
Increasingly, many of the public spaces we experience as models of democracy have been brought about as a result of totalizing and non-democratic policies ...
Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and management of Western ...
Addresses the relationships between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. Three sections ...
Curitiba, Brazil and Portland, Oregan, are cities that have achieved recognition for exemplary urban planning programmes over the last three decades. THis book explores ...
Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development. Students are the citizens and the highly-skilled working class of tomorrow. They keep ...
Globalization was the buzzword of the 1990s. Advances in communication technology, computing and air travel have all contributed to the establishment of what has ...
Studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, they have focused ...
John Ruskin's three-volume "The Stones of Venice" (1851-3) remains massively influential in art and architecture. To mark the centenary of Ruskin's death, this illustrated ...
Throughout the post-war period, there has been much activity in the conservation and renewal of old town centres throughout Europe. A considerable body of ...
