Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today....Loe edasi...
This book highlights innovative planning strategies for liveability and wellbeing of communities supported by lessons from notable international case studies, addressing varied issues including accommodating elderly populations, designing walkable c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jan-2026, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429329463)
This book critically examines the methodology of visual perception of urban places. Based on systematic study of different parameters derived from investigative research and on empirical analysis of Kolkata as a case, it discusses generic issues of...Loe edasi...
Spatial Justice: The Basics offers a concise and accessible introduction to spatial justice as both a theoretical framework and a practical agenda for urban transformation. It examines how urban space is produced, contested, and governed, and how it...Loe edasi...
Mobility Injustice by Design examines the social exclusion of vulnerable people in urban spaces, revealing how millions of citizens have their right to roam curbed by design and planning decisions made either intentionally to facilitate immobility o...Loe edasi...
This groundbreaking study examines courtyard architecture across Paris, Florence, Siena, Granada, and Yazd to reveal how the deliberate creation of emptinessthe bounded voidfunctions as architectures primary generative principle....Loe edasi...
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and re...Loe edasi...
This book aims to illustrate the value of design in a systematic and scientific manner, to reap the full benefits of design. The authors aim to address the challenges in the quantification and evaluation of the value of design....Loe edasi...
Detroit: A City Imagined in Film is a survey of prominent feature films depicting or referring to Detroit, and how they have captured and fed popular perceptions about the Motor City....Loe edasi...
In this translation and editing of the four books by Mohammad Fawaz, Director of Lebanons Directorate General of Urbanism from 1974 to 1993, Christine Mady provides a unique insight into the development and urban planning of Lebanon and its capital...Loe edasi...
This book describes one hundred memorable places that have been important in the architectural career of the author. The illustrated essays provide insights from a variety of buildings and places on five continents: from different eras, from the eve...Loe edasi...
This book reconceptualizes tall buildings as civic agents that deliver spatial legibility, cultural significance, and vibrant social interaction by embedding placemaking at the heart of vertical development. It articulates ten pragmatic planning and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2025, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003600466)
This book examines the concept of smart cities in the context of the UNs sustainable development goals, through three Mediterranean port cities....Loe edasi...
Seamlessly combining architecture with cognitive science and neuroscience, environmental and evolutionary psychology, and social theory and anthropology, in clear, direct and engaging prose, this book will be essential reading for all architecture s...Loe edasi...
This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder. It stands as both a scholarly tribute to Gunders intellectual legacy an...Loe edasi...
This book explores how privately owned public spaces (POPS) are presented today as desirable additions to urban redevelopment projects, regardless of their inherently divisive social impact, usually delivered through, amongst other factors, carefull...Loe edasi...
This book explores the architecture of the Baltic States, a region still relatively unexplored in architectural literature. Nevertheless, this collection of essays provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the urban architectural environment...Loe edasi...
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic....Loe edasi...
This handbook aims to increase attention to small and medium sized cities and explore the unique challenges they face, as well as provide practical recommendations for built environment practitioners to understand and respond to these challenges in...Loe edasi...
This volume proposes an interdependent relationship between progress and obstacles in architecture and the built environment. It challenges the positive notion of progress, and the conception of progress and obstacle as a dichotomy....Loe edasi...
