In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.

This work compares hundreds of streets around the world to determine the design and other elements that make some of them great . It contains plans, cross-sections, maps of individual streets and a set of one-square-mile maps of the street plans of 50 cities around the world.

An explanation of how and why cities took the shape they did. It focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs depict a global mosaic of citybuilding.

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Peter Calthorpe, leaders of the dynamic urban design revolution, have come to be known as the New Urbanism. Articulating the principles of the New Urbanism, this book provides a useful guide to this movement for architects, urban planners, civic leaders and concerned citizens.

This volume is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the 20th century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. It reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the 20th century.

Includes writings on urban economics, bosses and machines, urban development, the creative class, metro politics, Occidentalism, Asian mega cities, and urban futurism. This book provides the mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies. It is illustrated with over forty photographs and is intended for those interested in the city.

Presents a universal history of the elements of cities: streets, public spaces, urban divisions, and the borders of city and countryside. A companion volume to The City Shaped which dealt with cities as complete entities, this book follows the evolution of their components.

Targeted at architects, students, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, and city and regional officials, The Fractured Metropolis provides a thorough analysis of not only cities but also the entire metropolitan region, considering how both are intrinsically linked and influence one other.

Offers an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to 'sustainable urbanism' - the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings.

A guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design. It discusses systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from a range of sources. It presents six key dimensions of urban design theory and practice - the social, visual, functional, temporal, morphological and perceptual.

Demonstrating the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places, this book is about architecture and urban design. By means of sketches and diagrams, it shows how they may be designed in to places or buildings.

Part of a series of four, this book offers an analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It outlines the theory of the principal features of urban design from which method is developed and provides an understanding of the main elements of urban design.

A professional reference on the physical design of cities and urban places including communities and civic and public places. It covers topics including preservation, renewal, patterns of settlement and sustainability.

A new edition of this comprehensive text which looks at the origins of European and American cities before the advent of the modern industrialized society.

Joseph Rykwert explores the great cities of the modern world, examining their fabric and assessing how successfully they have met the needs of their inhabitants. The book covers city centres of the industrial revolution, exclusive gated suburbs of the 21st century, Parisian boulevards of Haussmann and the 'green' architecture of Emilio Ambasz.

This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context.

Suitable for urban designers, architects, and students, this book presents contemporary urban design paradigms and principles, processes, and design tools for various project types and scales, such as downtowns, neighborhoods, Main Street revitalization, waterfronts, and college campuses.