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.
The Social Fabric of Cities
1st Edition
By Vinicius M. Netto
April 09, 2018
Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different ...
Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Sam Griffiths, Alexander von Lünen
March 07, 2018
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research ...
Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories
1st Edition
Edited
By Fassil Demissie
May 24, 2017
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts in ...
Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse
1st Edition
Edited
By Haim Yacobi
February 27, 2017
While it is widely recognized that architects and their architecture play a key role in constructing a sense of place, the inherent nexus between an architectural ideology and the production of national space and place has so far been neglected. Focusing on the Zionist ideology, this book brings ...
London's Turning: The Making of Thames Gateway
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Cohen, Michael J. Rustin
November 28, 2016
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens through which to look at a series of ...
Making the Digital City: The Early Shaping of Urban Internet Space
1st Edition
By Alessandro Aurigi
November 28, 2016
Since the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary feature of the planning and management of Western cities. Economic regeneration and place promotion strategies have exploited these new technologies; city management has ...
Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London
1st Edition
Edited
By Gavin Poynter, Iain MacRury
November 28, 2016
Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal. Comparing cities that have or will be hosting the event, it explores the political economy of the games and the ...
City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas: Curitiba and Portland
1st Edition
By Clara Irazábal
November 15, 2016
Cities in both North and South America are confronting tremendous challenges in urban growth and management as they enter the new century. Curitiba in Brazil and Portland in Oregon, US are cities that have achieved recognition for exemplary urban planning programmes over the past three decades. As ...
Architecture and Utopia: The Israeli Experiment
1st Edition
By Michael Chyutin
November 10, 2016
There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel. While there is a range of communal and cooperative kibbutz movements, all with slight ideological differences, they are all collective rural communities, based on an ideal to create a social utopian settlement. Placing...
Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability: Theory, Practice, and Product
1st Edition
By Donia Zhang
November 10, 2016
Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book...
Chinese Urban Design: The Typomorphological Approach
1st Edition
By Fei Chen, Kevin Thwaites
October 17, 2016
The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. With the rapid development taking place, there is growing conflict between this new building and the existing urban heritage. An appropriate approach, both in design and in legislation, is urgently needed to deal with this problem. ...
Designing for Play
2nd Edition
By Barbara E. Hendricks
July 28, 2011
Architects, landscape designers, builders, gardeners and teachers have all at some time been called upon to design a play area. Unfortunately, this diversity has not resulted in a similar diversity of design solutions for this very problematic task. Despite a proliferation of 'how to' books on ...