All too often, no one—neither the public, city officials, nor developers—is happy with the course of new development. But growing support for urban design ...
"Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis" is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa's largest city into urban theory on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa's ...
Congestion is worse than ever and land development continues unabated into the countryside. Recent accounts suggest that unprecedented conditions are ahead; coordinated land use ...
This book presents new research and theory at the regional scale showing the forms metropolitan regions might take to achieve sustainability. At the city ...
With the Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) Hamburg dares a leap across the Elbe to the Elbe islands Wilhelmsburg, Veddel, Kleiner Grasbrook and the Harburg castle ...
These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects ...
Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private. Rather than focusing ...
This book focuses on two projects based in Jakarta by artist/architect Stani Michiels and artist Arjan van Helmond. From their different lines of approach ...
The urban and cultural climate of Rotterdam changed radically between 1970 and 2000. 'Imagine a Metropolis' argues firstly, that the catalyst for the current ...
A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is ...
