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

Demand from building control officials for structural calculations – even for very simple projects – means that today”s architects must have a thorough understanding of everyday structural concepts. …

Information about types of bridges and how they are built. …

Investigating various ways in which the cultures of the town and the countryside interact in architecture, original essays in this book written by an international range of recognized theorists will …

In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. She s …

The Familiar Past surveys material culture from 1500 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as: * the origins of modernity in urban …

This collection unravels the stereotypical images of gender and space and presents a series of new explorations into both ”lived” and ”imagined” spaces. In New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gend …

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 …

With more than half of the world”s population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the …

The book presents a broad panoramic overview of church architecture in the Russian North between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. While it is inevitably overshadowed by the imperial splendour …

Travel, Space, Architecture defines a new theoretical territory in architectural and urban scholarship that frames the processes of spatial production through the notion of travel. By aligning archit …