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You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and... Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.
What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and... The author of "S, M, L, XL" teams up with an international group of top architects and theorists to explore the myriad ways in which the...
Edited by Jochen Visscher. Photographs by Stefan Boness. For several years, Harvard's design graduates concentrated their studies on the phenomenon of shopping as a primary mode of urban life. As...
Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the New Urbanism movement, and in "Suburban Nation" they assess sprawl's costs to... Earth Moves, Bernard Cache's first major work, conceptualizes a series of architectural images as vehicles for two important developments....
In this examination of the implications for the global digital network, Mitchell argues that society must extend the definitions of... The High Line, a new park atop an elevated rail structure on Manhattan's West Side, is among the most innovative urban reclamation projects...
The first history of the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne traces the development and promotion of its influential concept of... Leon Krier is one of the best-known--and most provocative--architects and urban theoreticians in the world. Until now, however, his ideas...
"Architecture for the Poor" describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more...
This new edition of Kevin Lynch's widely used introductory textbook has been completely revised; and is also enriched by the experience of... Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategies develops important new relational and institutionalist approaches to policy analysis and planning,...
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