Design and the Built Environment: Design and the Built Environment
About the Book Series
Urban design is an expanding discipline bridging the gaps between the established built environment professions of architecture, planning, surveying, landscape architecture, and engineering. In this position, urban design also borrows from, and contributes to, academic discourse in areas as diverse as urban geography, sociology, public administration, cultural studies, environmental management, conservation and urban regeneration.
This series provides a means to disseminate more substantive urban and environmental design research. Specifically, contributions will be welcomed which are the result of original empirical research, scholarly evaluation, reflection on the practice and the process of urban design, and critical analysis of particular aspects of the built environment. Volumes should be of international interest and may reflect theory and practice from across one or more of the spatial scales over which urban design operates, from environmental and spatial design of settlements, to a concern with large areas of towns and cities - districts or quarters, to consideration of individual developments, urban spaces and networks of spaces, to the contribution of architecture in the urban realm.
Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place
1st Edition
By Filipa Matos Wunderlich
May 27, 2025
Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place examines an alternative design approach, focusing on the temporal aesthetics of urban places and the importance of the sense of time and rhythm in the urban environment. The book departs from concerns on the acceleration of cities, its impact on ...
Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries
1st Edition
By Carlos Nunes Silva
October 14, 2024
Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrÃncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis ...
Urban Planning in North Africa
1st Edition
By Carlos Nunes Silva
October 14, 2024
There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region which date back to Antiquity. The book explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the challenges confronting contemporary urban planning ...
Advanced Research and Design Tools for Architectural Heritage: Unforeseen Paths
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefania Stellacci, Danilo Giglitto, Chiara Piccoli
July 31, 2024
Advanced Research and Design Tools for Architectural Heritage: Unforeseen Paths rethinks how to analyse, preserve, and adapt Architectural Heritage and its surroundings along unforeseen paths using a broad spectrum of advanced research and design tools. By delving into conceptual foundations and ...
Daylight, Design and Place-Making
1st Edition
By Hisham Elkadi, Sura Al-Maiyah
January 09, 2023
Daylight, Design and Place-Making examines the role of daylight in creating and revealing the wonders of heritage and contemporary architecture. Shifting from a purely technical approach to daylighting, this book places importance on the creation of meaningful aesthetics through an understanding of...
Urban Design in the Arab World: Reconceptualizing Boundaries
1st Edition
By Robert Saliba
June 30, 2021
The Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national identities, overwhelming wealth and poverty, religious diversity, and recently the Arab uprisings, a bottom-up revolution shaking the foundations of pre-established, long-standing hierarchies. It is also a ...
The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity
1st Edition
By Carolyn Loeb, Andreas Luescher
March 31, 2021
In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and other design elements are deployed to signal...
Towns and Cities: Function in Form: Urban Structures, Economics and Society
1st Edition
By Julian Hart
March 31, 2021
Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a theory of the form of the town at all...
Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation
1st Edition
Edited
By Svetlana Hristova, Mariusz Czepczyński
January 17, 2019
Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ...
New Suburbanism: Sustainable Tall Building Development
1st Edition
By Kheir Al-Kodmany
September 27, 2018
Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in a sustainable and resilient manner. This book explores the role of suburban tall as a viable, sustainable alternative to continued suburban sprawl. It ...
Architecture Competition: Project Design and the Building Process
1st Edition
Edited
By Ignaz Strebel, Jan Silberberger
September 18, 2018
Much valued by design professionals, controversially discussed in the media, regularly misunderstood by the public and systematically regulated by public procurement; in recent years, architecture competitions have become projection screens for various and often incommensurable desires ...
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism RPD: Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture
1st Edition
By Camillo Boano
June 08, 2018
The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben’s political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben’s politics, which can affect change in current ...