Books in the Design and the Built Environment series

Explores the role of suburban tall as a viable, sustainable alternative to continued suburban sprawl. This book examines ten spatial patterns in which tall buildings have been integrated into the American suburbs.

Curitiba, Brazil and Portland, Oregon, are cities that have achieved recognition for exemplary urban planning programmes over the last three decades. THis book explores the dynamics of their urban governance.

The Thames Gateway plan is a large project of urban regeneration in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview 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 important questions of social theory, urban policy and governmental practice.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of social scientists from around the world, this volume presents a broad spectrum of approaches and discourses on contemporary public spaces.

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 shaping the present and the future trajectory of postcolonial cities in Africa. Colonial Architecture and Urbanism explores the intersection between architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in Africa. Like other colonial institutions such as the courts, police, prisons, and schools, that were crucial in establishing and maintaining political domination, colonial architecture and urbanism played s pivotal role in shaping the spatial and social structures of African cities during the 19th and 20th centuries. Indeed, it is the cultural destination of colonial architecture and urbanism and the connection between them and colonialism that the volume seeks to critically address. The contributions drawn from different interdisciplinary fields map the historical processes of colonial architecture and urbanism and bring into sharp focus the dynamic conditions in which colonial states, officials, architects, planners, medical doctors and missionaries mutually constructed a hierarchical and exclusionary built environment that served the wider colonial project in Africa.

This book 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.

Almost all texts on architectural competition engross it for particular intentions, whether it be for celebration of the procedure, or dismissal. From this view point Architecture Competition is a revelational study on what really happens when competitions take place. But the story is not just about architecture and design; it is about the whole construction process, from the definition of the spatial program, to judgment and selection of projects and the realization of the building.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of social scientists from around the world, this volume presents a broad spectrum of approaches and discourses on contemporary public spaces.

Applies advanced thinking from child development and child psychology to find fresh design solutions, challenging the established notions of play provision. Covering key sociological, public policy, environmental and design issues, this book provides designers with an exploration of and guide to, designing from a 'child's eye' view of the world.

With the rapid development taking place in Chinese cities, there is growing conflict between this new building and the existing urban heritage. This book offers an analytic and conceptual framework for both urban investigation and consequent design.

This collection examines critically the inherent connection between ideology and the construction of a sense of place in relation to Israel and Zionism, and the central role of the land of Israel in a national-territorial and conflict-related context.

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. This title explores the intersection between architecture and urbanism as discursive cultural projects in Africa.

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.

Using an innovative architectural and social science approach, this book examines the political, economic, social, and spatial factors that affect cultural sustainability. Supported by a multiplicity of data including: field surveys, interviews with residents, architects, and planners, time diaries, drawings, photos, planning documents.

Drawing upon historical, 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 will be hosting the event, it explores the political economy of the games and the role of the state in creating post-industrial metropolitan spaces.

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 together practising architects and academics to critically examine the role of architects, architecture and spatial practices as mediators between national ideology and the politicization of space. The book first of all sets out the wider context of theoretical debates concerning the role of architecture in the process of constructing a sense of place then divides into six main sections. The book not only provides an innovative new perspective on how the Israeli state had developed, but also sheds light on how architecture shapes national identity in any post-colonial and settler state.

Illustrated by European case studies, this volume examines the social, political and management issues and potential problems in the establishment of an electronic layer of information and services in Western cities. It provides an understanding of the direction European cities are going towards in the implementation of ICTs in the urban arena.

There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel. Placing the kibbutz within the wider context of utopian social ideals and how they have historically been physically and architecturally constructed, this book discusses the form of the 'ideal settlement' as an integral part and means for realising a utopian doctrine.