Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality. This ...
Este libro es un homenaje al primer urbanista moderno y a su producto:el Eixample de Barcelona,actualmente vigente y el centro indiscutible del Área Metropolitana ...
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of activist architects, politicians and radical communities who have begun rebuilding and redesigning ...
This volume investigates the 'cool city' phenomenon with an empirical focus on Istanbul. The book approaches 'cool Istanbul' not only as a consumable brand ...
George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in ...
El desbordamiento en 1961 del Tamarguillo, afluente del Guadalquivir por la margen izquierda, fue la última gran riada de Sevilla y constituye uno de ...
Esta segunda edición del Seminario de Arquitectura y Pensamiento, organizado por el Grupo de Arquitectura y Pensamiento de la UPV, quiere dar cuenta de ...
Tokyo's urban landscape is full of contradictions: as a densely packed megalopolis it affords thousands of vacant spaces. While creative design practices and informal ...
By 1900 the British had undertaken various types of urban planning in their colonial territories, but the early twentieth century brought new ideas and ...
Some cities avoid change. Others accept it. Atlanta pursues it. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil ...
The suburbanization of North America has been was one of the most significant social, political, and cultural transformations of the twentieth century. Originally seen ...
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune ...
Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis - the cities of West Africa are no longer plannable,at least not by using traditional urban development tools. ...
