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.

Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anaesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.

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.

Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination, with many disasters - both real and those created by Hollywood movies - in recent years. This book examines the history of disaster - both real and imagined - in Los Angeles.

Richard Florida traces the fundamental theme that runs through a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing role of creativity in the economy. He describes a society in which the creative ethos is increasingly dominant.

In various roles in city and state government from 1930 to 1965, Robert Moses reshaped the fabric of the city. This book assesses public projects of Moses from Lincoln Center to the Triborough Bridge, the West Side Highway to the Cross Bronx Expressway.

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 is the story of the men and women whose lives were irrevocably changed by the Chicago World Fair, and of two men in particular: an architect and a serial killer. Spicing the narrative are the stories of a cast of historical characters including Buffalo Bill, Scott Joplin and Theodore Dreiser.

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.

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.

This is a new paperback version of a text, originally published in 1969, that outlined the principles of urban design from an environmental perspective. It should benefit architects, urban and regional planners, and environmentalists.

An exploration of Los Angeles, told with passion, wit and a sharp eye for the absurd, the unjust and the dangerous. The author tells a lurid tale of greed, manipulation, power and prejudice that has made LA one of the most cosmopolitan and class-divided cities in the United States.

Why does the other lane always seem to be moving faster? Why are people so different inside their cars than they are outside them? This book explains why traffic problems are really people problems. It shows that how we behave walking the streets, on our bikes, and in our cars is an astonishing cultural indicator.

Neighbourhoods decline when the people who live there lose their connection and no longer feel part of their community. This book explains how most struggling communities can be revived, not by vast infusions of cash, not by government, but by the people who live there. It also addresses such challenges as traffic control, and comfort and safety.

Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens. -Vanity Fair