Edward Davies & Peter (Manchester Centre for Civil 
Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management in Construction [PDF ebook] 
An International Perspective

Architecture’s role is becoming increasingly limited to serving the all-pervasive system of globalised capitalism and becoming a constituent, complicit part of its mechanism. The Resistant Object of …

This book proposes a system structure in architectural design that conceptualises a systemic level in architecture and construction that lies between general construction techniques and specific arch …

Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent par …

The aim of this book is to construct a framework of understanding for those coming to the field of recreational land management from a non-land management discipline. …

An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. I …

Brought together for the first time – the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly cent …

Architectural education is under pressure to meet the demands of an evolving construction industry and to cater to the increasingly varied career destinations of graduates. How should architectural e …

Architecture is conventionally seen as being synonymous with building. In contrast, this book introduces and defines a new category – the unbuildable. The unbuildable involves projects that are not j …

Historiography is the study of the methodology of writing history, the development of the discipline of history, and the changing interpretations of historical events in the works of individual histo …

As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world”s population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which re …