Urban Design, Planning and Housing

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.

Presentation of 20 years of residential architecture in Zurich.

Public urban spaces vary widely in type, form and size, encompassing plazas, squares and streetscapes. This volume features projects from various continents, showing the different approaches and solutions to this sophisticated design task at the intersection of architecture, landscape design and urban planning.