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Some Assembly Required
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 67.50Michael Sorkin is widely hailed as one of the best architecture critics writing today. Iconoclastic and often controversial, he is a witty, entertaining, yet ultimately serious writer. In this new collection, Sorkin reviews the state of contemporary architecture and surveys the dramatic changes in the urban environment of the past decade. From New... more...
Innovations in Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning
Springer 2006; US$ 219.99Traditionally, the DDSS conferences aim to be a platform for both starting and experienced researchers. This volume contains 31 peer reviewed papers that are organised into seven sections, including Land Use Simulation and Visualisation, Multi-Agent Models for Movement Simulation, Multi-Agent Models for Urban Development, and more. more...
The Environments of Architecture
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 49.95This well-illustrated 'think piece' provides a much needed and topical philosophical introduction to the place of environmental design in architecture. The Environments of Architecture sets out a range of considerations necessary to produce appropriate internal environments in the context of a wider discussion on the effect of building decisions... more...
Making Lahore Modern
University of Minnesota Press 2007; US$ 75.00William J. Glover investigates the traditions that shaped colonial Lahore, focusing on the conviction that both British and Indian actors who implemented urbanization shared: that the material fabric of the city could lead to social and moral improvement.Glover reveals that urban change in colonial India was not a monolithic process and establishes... more...
The Post-socialist City
Springer 2007; US$ 219.99In the large body of literature produced during the last fifteen years on the transformation of Eastern European societies after the fall of communism, studies investigating changes in urban form and structure have been quite rare. Yet a profound reorganization of the manner in which urban space is appropriated has taken place, impacting the life of... more...
Heterotopia and the City
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 155.00Heterotopia, literally meaning ?other place?, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has... more...
More Urban Less Poor
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95A world more urban... The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment. ...but less poor Unplanned shanty-towns without basic services are... more...
Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 53.95These essays, from leading names in the field, weave together the parallels and differences between the past and present of civic art. Offering prospects for the first decades of the twenty-first century, the authors open up a broad international dialogue on civic art, which relates historical practice to the contemporary meaning of civic art and... more...
The Politics of the Piazza
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 79.95Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. Illustrated by contemporary photographs and analytical drawings, it examines significant piazzas in their social and political contexts, highlighting the urban evidence... more...
The Urban Project
IOS Press 2009; US$ 116.00Summarizes the experiences particularly significant to those involved in design, building, thinking and managing the urban scene. more...









