Harriet Bulkeley & McKenna Davis 
Urban Nature [PDF ebook] 
New Directions for City Futures

While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not …

Professional practice courses often suffer from a boring reputation, but there’s nothing dull about this updated, cornerstone edition of Professional Practice 101, which renders accessible the art an …

The campus has a deep-rooted prestige as a place of teaching, learning and nurturing. Conjuring images of cloistered quadrangles, of sunny lawns, of wood-panelled libraries, it is a word viscerally c …

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and history. It focuses specifically on postmodern archi …

A Cultural History of Plants in the Modern Era covers the period from 1920 to today – a time when population growth, industrialization, global trade, and consumerism have fundamentally reshaped our r …

A paradigm shift is happening at this moment. Firms and consumers are aware of the fact that they cause environmental pollution, depletion of resources and are responsible for the dangers involved. A …

Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. ”Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design” defines a set of st …

Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award.Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. T …

This book is arguably the first academic book to examine the relationship of Malaysia”s large Chinese minority with the politics of architecture and urbanism in Kuala Lumpur. It is also one of the f …

First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain. It focuses, neither on foreign tourists coming to Britain, nor on British tourists travelling abroad, but on British people exploring …