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

Spatial Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present an... Lees meer

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

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

Towns and Cities: Function in Form

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

Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa

• Paperback | 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

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 turbulent events of the first few years of the 21st century, the growth of new security and disaster measures have led to significant ch... Lees meer

Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability

Donia Zhang

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other th... Lees meer

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism RPD

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

Augmented Urban Spaces

Fiorella De Cindio

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces. Considering ubiquitous/pervasive computing, mobile... 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
• Using innovative theoretical concepts, this book develops a new approach to looking at dwelling and how we use it. Combining philosophical analysis an... 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

Towns and Cities: Function in Form

Julian Hart

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

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

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

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

Constructing a Sense of Place

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• By providing an innovative new perspective on how the Israeli state had developed, this book sheds light on how architecture shapes national identity ... 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

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: A Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design

Ellen Shoshkes

• Hardcover | 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