Europe

Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe is an overview of converging, diverging, and changing spatial planning practices across the European Union.

From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl-across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used...

This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists' appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini's Italy. With contributions by art historians...

Esra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara.

An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, literary and urban culture.

A stunning portrait of the Palazzo della Civilta Italiana in Rome, the iconic building where Fendi relocated its headquarters.

A fascinating look at one of the most important engineering achievements of recent times.

An unprecedented tour of the most stunning and architecturally significant palatial homes of Russia s nobility, many not previously un-photographed and inaccessible to visitors.