As focus shifts to 'no net land take' city regeneration approaches one of the main traditional elements of architecture?the roof?is gaining renewed prominence. This book provides a survey of worldwide ...

Building Sharjah reveals how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates third-largest city. An oil discovery in 1972 positioned Sharjah as one of the worlds final cities shaped by ...

By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating ...

This book reveals Copenhagen's quality of life using the example of built spaces. It leads its readers on a tour of exploration, visiting exciting architecture projects and surprising districts between ...

From 52 propositions it proposes to understand Glocal urbanity as a new modernity derived from the Axial Age. It proposes to understand the city, also as a socio-technological process. Integrate ...

Atlas de la vivienda pública. Madrid 1940-2010 da a conocer el levantamiento realizado por el Grupo de Investigación UPM Vivienda Social de los desarrollos de Vivienda Pública (VP) realizados en ...

'Spacematrix' explores the potential of urban density as a tool for urban planning and design. The authors fascination with density is driven by the desire to understand the relational logic ...

Berlin was shaped by the events of the twentieth century in a process of 'automatic urbanism.' More than any other metropolis, the city absorbed the forces of that epoch?'?modernity, fascism, ...

Ciudad feminista es un experimento continuo para vivir de manera diferente, vivir mejor y vivir de manera más justa en un mundo urbano. Vivimos en la ciudad de los hombres. ...

A expressão "a qualidade na arquitectura sente-se", foi o primeiro degrau a partir do qual viria a desenvolve r- se um trabalho de investigação científica que propôs descobrir Indicadores de ...

Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology

The Randstad metropolitan r egion encompassing Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht in the western Netherlands is regarded worldwide as a model of a 'successful polycentric metropolis. It is widely ...

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? What kind of lifestyles may evolve and how will we move around, where will we live and work? ...

Aunque los casi cuarenta años que duró el franquismo constituyen una etapa dominada por el autoritarismo político, en el contexto de la arquitectura y el urbanismo desarrollados en el seno ...

El desarrollo del mundo urbano constituye un fenómeno clave en el desenvolvimiento de la población durante el periodo contemporáneo. La historia de cada ciudad presenta singularidades, pero todas debieron hacer ...

This richly illustrated book is a monument to modern urban construction in Naples. It features some fifty new photos by celebrated French photographer Cyrille Weiner as well as historic images, ...

The 'new urban municipality of Berlin', also called Greater Berlin, was created 100 years ago, on 1 October 1920, following a ground-breaking administrative reform. This was a century-defining milestone that ...

Questo libro è l'esito di un progetto didattico che origina da una consolidata prospettiva di ricerca sulla città contemporanea. Utilizza il caso di Milano come introduzione allo studio della co-evoluzione ...

Il volume ripercorre la crescita urbana e architettonica di Torino nel Novecento, la cosiddetta ville industrielle, a partire da documenti inesplorati, in primis le carte e i disegni prodotti dal ...