The book Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance explores the concept of sustainable urban planning in the face of pressing environmental and social challenges. Robert Riddel analyzes innov…
The book Data Management for Urban and Regional Development, published by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), discusses the importance of data management in urban and regiona…
Architects and interior designers face new and increasing challenges in office design. Employers still want to have inspiring offices for their employees (and to impress their clients), often with …
The competitive design market and the need to create enduring value place high demands on architects and designers to expand their knowledge base to be able to digest and utilize multiple sources o…
In Western countries, one of the consequences of the globalization of the economy has been the concentration of workers in the tertiary sector; more than half the population works in offices, a per…
The book Homes, Towns & Traffic explores the relationship between housing planning, urban design, and traffic management. John Tetlow and Anthony Goss analyze how the design of housing and urban in…
The book Planning for a Nation of Cities discusses the challenges and opportunities in urban planning amid the rapid urbanization in the United States. Sam Bass Warner examines the history of Ameri…
This book is based on a course I taught at the Graduate School for the Social Sciences, Edinburgh University, in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Most thanks must go to the students who took that course, for t…
We are in the midst of an endemic and at the present time exacerbated urban-national crisis. It has been accumulating over many decades. But it has only recently begun to be fully recognized. It is…
Real Cities explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city experiences best described as phantasmagoric and illuminated by the work of Benjamin, Freud and Simmel. While phantasmagor…