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  • On New York's Ground

    Dense, Diverse and Sustainable

    by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores a simple but powerful idea. The way we organize the ground of our cities impacts everyday life. In other words, the street systems, plot patterns and building arrangements we lay down on the ground influence, first, the main three-dimensional aspects of building fabrics and then, socioeconomic diversity and environmental sustainability. This scientific evidence is relevant not ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • ISUF, Urban Morphology and Human Settlements

    Advances and Prospects

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers insight into the most important scientific society on urban morphology worldwide: the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF). After addressing the three-decade history of ISUF, the book analyses the present and future of this scientific society, of urban morphology, and of human settlements. This timely and fundamental reflection gathers contributions from present and past ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment. The physical form of cities is structured in different elements of urban form. Each of these elements, and the way they are combined into distinct patterns, is shaped by various agents and processes of change. Planning, urban design and architecture are practice-oriented activities that ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Urban Morphology

    An Introduction to the Study of the Physical Form of Cities

    by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It starts presenting the main elements of urban form – streets, urban blocks, plots and buildings – structuring our cities and the fundamental actors and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It then applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Teaching Urban Morphology

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together contributions from some of the foremost international experts in the field of urban morphology and addresses major questions such as: What exactly is urban morphology? Why teach it? What contents should be taught in an urban morphology course? And how can it be taught most effectively?Over the past few decades there has been a growing awareness of the importance of urban ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

  • J.W.R. Whitehand and the Historico-geographical Approach to Urban Morphology

    Edited by Vítor Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over recent decades, the historico-geographical approach to urban morphology has been prominent in the debate on the physical form of our cities and on the agents and processes shaping that form over time. With origins in the work of the geographer M.R.G. Conzen, this approach has been systematically developed by researchers in different parts of the world since the 1960s. This book argues that J ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Urban Design Thinking

    A Conceptual Toolkit

    by Kim Dovey ...
    Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it shows how the design of our cities and urban spaces can be interpreted and informed through contemporary theories of urbanism, architecture and spatial analysis.Relating abstract ideas to real-world examples, and taking assemblage thinking as its critical framework, the book ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Explorations in Urban Design

    An Urban Design Research Primer

    by Matthew Carmona ...
    Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need inspiration to move from ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Objects and Materials

    A Routledge Companion

    Edited by Penny Harvey, Gillian Evans, Hannah Knox, Christine McLean, Elizabeth B. Silva, Nicholas Thoburn, Kath Woodward, Eleanor Casella ...
    Series series CRESC
    There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and materials found at centre stage, and asks: what matters about objects?Objects and Materials explores ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Material Matters

    Architecture and Material Practice

    Edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas ...
    Bringing together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making material central to their work, this book reflects the diverse areas of inquiry which are expanding current material discourse. Focusing on the cultural, political, economic, technological and intellectual forces which shape material practices in architecture, the contributors draw on disciplines ranging from philosophy ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Urban Morphology

    by Karl Kropf ...
    Series series The Urban Handbook series
    The Handbook of Urban MorphologyKarl KropfUrban morphology is a core discipline for both academic research and professional practice in a range of fields including urban design, architecture, planning, geography, archaeology and anthropology. It plays a central role in improving our understanding of the built environment as a diverse, complex structure that is the product of ongoing social ... Read more

    $64.00 USD

  • A City is Not a Tree

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

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