How will the human body, collective and individual, cope with the estimated increases in global air temperatures and in the earth's corresponding thermal stress? ...
Taking examples from major European cities, Public Spaces and Urbanity is a practical guide demonstrating what urban development with a human face might look ...
Architects and designers have always played a vital role in shaping society. Social Design presents a long-overdue survey of current international activity in this ...
In the writing of urban design history of the twentieth century, functionalist and avant-garde models of the dissolution of the city are dominating. In ...
19 projects provide a sketch of the state of landscape architecture and urban planning in the Netherlands. Richly illustrated and with descricptions by experts, ...
The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory ...
Cities are the product of a myriad of forces. Their forms and structures evolve over centuries and articulate the relationships between us, their citizens ...
People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship ...
Urban Design Practice gives a fascinating account of the state of urban design practice across the world today. Packed with invaluable local knowledge from ...
Make_Shift City looks at urban design strategies that renegotiate and emancipate shared spaces and resources within the city, showing how the increasing scarcity of ...
This volume comprises a critical review of exemplary urban and landscape design through 25 recent projects by Dutch architectural practices, both in the Netherlands ...
In this thoughtful, hopeful and truly illuminating book, Aseem Inam combines a profound critique of urban design theory with a thorough examination of an ...
This invaluable guide, brought up to date in its revised edition, offers an introductory course in urbanism and provides an operations manual for architects, ...
Urban Design: The Arrangement of Structures, Systems, Components, and Spaces Urban design is based on planning and design principles that need to meet functional ...
Con un planteamiento teórico-práctico y más de un centenar de atractivas imágenes en color que incluyen planos, mapas, dibujos y fotografías de los ejemplos ...
