Urban Design, Planning and Housing

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.

The book offers creative strategies for resolution of such conflicts and for the (re-) transformation of traffic space into truly public space. Text in English and German.

Responding to some of the poor standards of mass estate housing in the UK and its out-of-date space standards, it contributes towards improving the current status quo by describing a house design, including drawings, that can compete with today's mass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