Planning

Combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. This book provides a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created.

The two authors of the MIT based Senseable City Lab show how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital data as material that can be used for the formulation of a different urban future. This book looks at the negative aspects of the city-related data acquisition and control.

Presenting the results of a major research project supported by the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, encompassing a wide range of artistic and scientific approaches and design options for the future of public space.

An important contribution to the discourses on the social integration of refugees and the requirements mass migration movement create in architecture and urban design, and featuring essays with and contributions by high-profile figures in academia, international architecture and design firms.

The Eishin Campus near Tokyo is Christopher Alexander's largest and most significant project based on the Pattern Language he developed in the 1970s together with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, and is the first examination of Alexander's 'systems generating systems' theory and its application to a concrete building design.

Responding to some of the poor standards of mass estate housing in the UK and its out-of-date space standards, it contributes towards improving the current status quo by describing a house design, including drawings, that can compete with today's mass housing.

Detached housing settlements discussed from the different perspectives of architects and social scientists.

There is a long tradition of comparing cities with organisms as they have similarities in their anatomy. In this book, through charts and maps generated from satelite images various city structures are compared across five different dimensions and their influence on the city's identity through the lived experience of the inhabitants is discussed.

Presents 22 international examples, that reviews the most important aspects of construction including the use of wood, steel, brickwork and concrete which have all become established materials for this type of building.

Presentation of 20 years of residential architecture in Zurich.