Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: A Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design

Ellen Shoshkes

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role in... Lees meer

Cultures of Glass Architecture

Hisham Elkadi

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whethe... Lees meer

The Social Fabric of Cities

Vinicius Netto

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with so... Lees meer

The Politics of the Piazza

Eamonn Canniffe

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of... Lees meer

Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Colonial architecture and urbanism in Africa created a built environment purposely suited to the administrative apparatus of empire: architecture and ... Lees meer

Towns and Cities

Julian Hart

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alte... Lees meer

Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London

Iain Macrury

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urba... Lees meer

Resilience & the City

Peter Rogers

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Following the terrorism events of the first few years of the 21st century, the growth of a new security infrastructure has led to significant changes ... Lees meer

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism

Camillo Boano

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• This book explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben's political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of archit... Lees meer

Constructing the Colonized Land

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lac... Lees meer

In Dwelling

Peter King

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us. It can be implacable, in that it can work for or against us, depending... Lees meer

London's Turning

Michael J Rustin

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Providing a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, this volume examines the impact of urban planning and demographic change o... Lees meer

Urban Design in the Arab World

Robert Saliba

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• The Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national identities, overwhelming wealth and poverty, religious dive... Lees meer

Chinese Urban Design

Fei Chen, Kevin Thwaites

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. With the rapid development taking place, there is growing conflict between this new bui... Lees meer

Making the Digital City

Alessandro Aurigi

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and ma... Lees meer

Architecture and Utopia

Michael Chyutin

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel. While there is a range of communal and cooperative kibbutz movements, ... Lees meer

Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of Eur... Lees meer

Architecture Competition

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Much valued by design professionals, controversially discussed in the media, regularly misunderstood by the public and systematically regulated by pub... Lees meer

Constructing a Sense of Place

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• While it is widely recognized that architects and their architecture play a key role in constructing a sense of place, the inherent nexus between an a... Lees meer

The Social Fabric of Cities

Vinicius Netto

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with so... Lees meer

Visual Pollution

Adriana Portella

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the problems that public spaces face because of the design of commercial signs. The negative ... Lees meer

Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London

Iain Macrury

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urba... Lees meer

New Suburbanism: Sustainable Tall Building Development

Kheir Al-Kodmany

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in a ... Lees meer

Temporal Urban Design

Filipa Matos Wunderlich

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place examines an alternative design approach, focusing on the temporal aesthetics of urban places and ... Lees meer