The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism

Camillo Boano

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben's political thoughts and writings for the theory a... 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

The Design of Frontier Spaces

Carolyn Loeb, Andreas Luescher

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. B... 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

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

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

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

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

Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space

Miodrag Mitrasinovic

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Placing theme parks from the United States, Europe and Asia in a comparative, multidisciplinary framework, this fascinating book argues that these fan... Lees meer

Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries

Carlos Nunes Silva

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrÃ-ncipe - has so far been r... 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

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
• The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comp... 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 Radicals' City: Urban Environment, Polarisation, Cohesion

Ralf Brand, Sara Fregonese

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast, Beirut, Amsterdam and Berlin, this book examines the role of the urban environment in social ... Lees meer

New Urbanism

Ilse Helbrecht

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric in the making. Bringing together a range of leading schola... 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

Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability

Donia Zhang

• Paperback | 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

London After Recession

Iain Macrury

• Hardcover | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City h... 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

Architecture Competition

• Paperback | 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

Designing Sustainable Cities in the Developing World

Georgia Butina Watson

• Paperback | Engels | Design and the Built Environment
• Can conservation of the built heritage be reconciled with the speed of urban change in cities of the developing world? What are the tools of sustainab... 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

The Politics of the Piazza

Eamonn Canniffe

• Paperback | 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