This publication examines the contemporary international phenomenon of retro districts, the new cities built to imitate historical models. It investigates historicizing urban construction through ...
Based on best-practice examples in American cities such as Detroit, New York, or Pittsburgh, this book shows successful cases of adaptive reuse that preserve ...
Experimentelle Wohnformen - CoHousing Cultures - kommen immer mehr im Mainstream an. Aber inwieweit sind sie zugänglich und leistbar für alle: Menschen mit unterschiedlichen ...
Territories - Rural-urban Strategies studies the dynamics of larger rural-urban spaces from a design perspective. Perception and concepts involving the overlaying of the urban ...
Urban river floods, inundations, water shortage, dirty water, water pollution, or drowning are nothing new for our urban environments. But is there any other ...
Rome, golden, eternally powerful, glorious, world-dominating Rome, sovereign of cities, city of cities, the fortunate, regal, holy city, the greatest of cities, seat of ...
Modern urban development is a complex process involving many parties. Self-organizational practices raise new questions with regard to urban space, the adaptation of legal ...
Landscript 5 examines Material Culture in landscape architecture theory and design. Designed landscapes are temporal assemblages of extant and introduced materials, constructed and maintained ...
Our living space is subject to permanent flux, with far reaching changes in the areas of mobility, the environment, demography, energy, and not least ...
The focal point of this publication is the current debate about design-understood as an architectural construction task and not just as the creation of ...
Landscape architects Topotek 1 work as commuters across different disciplines, landscape-typologies and scales; the office also jaunts into architecture, urban design and art. The ...
In an urbanizing world, the city is considered the measure of all things. The attention of architects and planners has been almost entirely focused ...
Baukollegium Berlin is an independent advisory board in Berlin whose members are experts from the fields of architecture, spatial planning and urban development. Compiling ...
Das Buch Public Spaces - What for? Wozu? Pourquoi? präsentiert Exkurse und Essays über die Bedeutung des eigenen Gestaltungsanspruchs für die Planung von öffentlichen ...
In Snapshot, the multiple award-winning Leipzig architects Ansgar and Benedikt Schulz reveal their extensive photo archive. The 120 selected motifs?accompanied by incisive commentary from ...
Worldwide urbanization brings seemingly inescapable and uncontrollable forms of densification with it. Increasingly, cities are no longer defined by clearly visible borders. Instead they ...
Can a building really have no relationship whatsoever to its location? Can buildings be free of all social, geographical, and cultural influences, without running ...
