Urban Design, Planning and Housing

A comprehensive overview of the architectural and urban transformations that took place across the British Empire between the seventeenth and mid-twentieth centuries, exploring the built heritage of Britain's former colonial empire as a fundamental part of how we negotiate our postcolonial identities.

For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost and environmental grounds, it's time to move on from this approach....

Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature.

Msheireb Downtown Doha is a new neighbourhood in the heart of Qatar's capital city.

Timely re-issue of the groundbreaking manifesto for feminist architecture

The aim of the book is to articulate a new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in our contemporary world. As a result, it will lead to higher performing airports for users, business partners, investors and other stakeholders.

If metropoles were the 20th century's favorite playground, borders are the laboratory for globalized phenomena in the 21st century.

Entropic Tokyo is a book about the city of Tokyo. A journey towards understanding a multiform and chaotic metropolis that hides a profound human order.