Stadsplanering – arkitektoniska aspekter

The classic work on the evaluation of city form.What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more …

Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of …

Which are the world's best streets, and what are the physical, designable characteristics that make them great? To answer these questions, Allan Jacobs has surveyed street users …

How will low-income communities be affected by the waves of social, economic, political, and cultural change that surround the new information technologies? How can we influence …

Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking.Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on …

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the cities of their time with an …

Leading theorists and practitioners trace the evolution of key ideas in urban and regional planning over the last hundred yearsOver the past hundred years of urbanization and …

A study of the shape and appearance of civic places and the social, political, and cultural circumstances that bring them into existence.A civic place belongs to everyone and yet …

The structural designs that occur in nature--in molecules, in crystals, in living cells, in galaxies--is the proper source of inspiration, Peter Pearce affirms, for the design of …

The compelling story of the politics, policies, and personalities that made Times Square's revitalization possible.The spectacularly successful transformation of Times Square has …