(Hardback)

Period photographs, plans and drawings combine with an authoritative text and contemporary photographs to provide a historical survey of America's first public park. The creation of Central Park is placed in the context of 19th-century American art and social history.

(Paperback, English ed.)

(Hardback, English ed.)

(Hardback)

The stunning interiors and glorious gardens of New Orleans's unrivaled jewel and architectural masterpiece. Longue Vue House and Gardens

(Hardback)

The sequel to the critically acclaimed Visions of Seaside (2013), Reflections on Seaside celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the town of Seaside, returning to the place that has inspired countless designers, architects, urban planners, and everyday citizens in the search for the ideal home.

(Hardback)

California, once the epitome of car culture, is now leading the green movement, transitioning away from the combustible engine and to some extent the car and having to rethink how we live, as this extraordinary urban planning manifesto explores.

(Hardback)

A unique perspective on architecture and the future of urban planning, with over 40 radical visionary projects from the most prominent design agencies worldwide.

(Hardback)

An account of the rise of Metroland, the area alongside the Metropolitan Railway. This is achieved with both the aid of history and personal anecdotes of what it was like to live there in the 1950s and 1960s. Its popularity was defined by other authors and film-makers including Julian Barnes and John Betjeman.

(Paperback)

Documents and discusses the many urban design transformations over the 80's with a focus on key events, plans, projects, places and people involved and seeks to understand the political and other forces that drove, framed and constrained these changes.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Drawing on the history of architecture, media theory, cultural anthropology, and urban studies, Best Practices pairs photographic documentation with extensive captions and citations to define a territory within the margins between the sanctioned and unsanctioned, the regulated and unregulated, the tasteful and tacky, the novel and the nonsense.

(Hardback)

City of Refugees strategically documents the contemporary refugee crisis; examining its origins, implications and architectural opportunity for strategic responses.

(Hardback)

The book proposes new transdisciplinary methodologies, practices, tools, and strategies to challenge for-profit-driven urban development and the advancement of the right to the city.

(Paperback)

Addresses how design of low-density housing stock and neighbourhoods may better serve the common mobility, access and social needs of seniors.

(Paperback)

Part of the Redesigning Gridded Cities series of four titles, exploring the grid as a design tool.

(Paperback)

This study is not an argument against engineering but for greater synergies between engineering and design as well as between science and design

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The experiments in the book are a collection of design and build projects conducted from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong over the past 10 years and represent a direct reflection of the incredible diversity of climates, locations, and conditions that underlie the ongoing Chinese urbanisation experiment.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Aimed at an academic and professional audience who are in the profession of city planning, urban design, architecture and landscape architecture. The book investigates the metro's contribution to the city, not only as a functional infrastructure but also as a project that has the potential of transforming the urban space.

(Paperback)

This is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between building codes and urban inequities through urban data and material properties.