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…
Exploring the American city as a metropolitan landscape, the book brings together well-known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice to examine roles designers play as professionals…
The book looks both at the British context as well as experience in other developed economies and takes stock of how the policy has evolved. It examines the rationale for planning gain, how it has …
From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population will live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single…
The purpose of the book is to describe in depth the local government of a selected group of the world's great cities, to consider the problems these vast communities are confronting, and what steps…
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favorable conditions for the sustainable evolution of future informal cities, planners mu…
The purpose of the book is to describe in depth the local government of a selected group of the world's great cities, to consider the problems these vast communities are confronting, and what steps…
Development of the urban environment has to be planned and managed if the best use is to be made of the available land, financial resources, and building talent. The creation, redevelopment, or ext…
“Urban Transformation: Understanding City Design and Form” by Peter Bosselmann is a comprehensive guide that delves into the complexities of urban design and the transformation of cities. The b…