Planning

The Mediterranean Sea not only separates two geographic continents, but has always been a complex crossroads between divergent social, economic, and political spheres. Mittelmeerland examines this many-sided region, showing how current and future developments and challenges manifest themselves here on both land and water.

To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. This book develops systematic presentations of innovative types.

Investigates the opportunities for upgrading the spatial structure of apartments created during the post-war building boom between 1960 and 1970. The authors analyze typical existing layouts in the context of social developments which, in recent decades, have led to significant changes in the form of living and in the structure of households.

A collection of essays that offers insight into urban anthropological research, including its methods, recent developments, and novel approaches (the imagination of a city, urban scenes). It also includes a concluding chapter on street ethnography that presents a variety of ethnographic, experimental and artistic methods.

This publication explores the contested territory between the state and corporate drive to 'securitise' urban space - and the principle of the city as a site for enacting open civil society, participatory democracy, and the freedom of speech and assembly.

Connects the critique of design theory and practice to a range of issues in urban theory, urban political economy and radical geography. The author develops concepts and methods to critique contemporary forms of urbanization, understand contemporary urbanization, and looks at the limits and possibilities of contemporary forms of urban knowledge.

[a]FA is a "laboratory" in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The projects are presented in their respective contexts and are embedded in contemporary discourses - well-known experts take a stand.

This book examines the reasons behind property location and how they are changing. Different theories relating to property location are examined and the book also covers retail industry, offices, industrial and residential property.