A history of housing in new york city

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the ...

A mos architects

Adaptable cities and temporary urbanisms

This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice.

Affordable housing for livable cities

The book addresses current housing affordability challenges and presents innovative planning and design strategies for contemporary communities and homes that are both livable and affordable.

An even better way to zone

Zoning is the tool that everyone loves to hate. It may also be the most important and least understood process affecting how US communities shape the lives of their residents. While almost every community comprehensive plan calls for more affordable, equitable, and sustainable development, zonin...

Architectonics of game spaces

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can architecture be used to turn game-worlds into sustainable places in “reality”? This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships...

Architecture in times of multiple crises

Carolina Crijns not only explores the transformative potential in radically rethinking architecture's central concepts but introduces a method of utopian speculation for practices ambitious of social change.

Blueprint for a hack

Over five days, some 60 residents of a northern village teamed with designers from southern Quebec to conceive and build an outdoor community pavilion that activates a central recreational area. “Blueprint for a Hack” aims to reimagine community spaces. Faced with extreme housing shortages, p...

Changing places

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livableThe design of every aspect of the urban landscape—from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing—fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there. It can ...

Common ground in a liquid city

An unapologetic defense of city life in a time of environmental crisis.

Common spaces of urban emancipation

This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future.

Concrete cities

This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building and construction, Imrie sets out its many degrading impacts on both people and the environment. Using examples from around the world, he...

Data. energy. matter.

The work of Serero, through investigations of patterns found in nature, does not envision architecture to create new spaces, but rather as a strategy to unfold together patterns of cultural, social and spatial origins. Architecture, as a living organism, establishes a relationship between beings ...

Decoding asian urbanism

Design and solidarity

In this book, artist Marisa Morán Jahn and architect Rafi Segal converse about the transformative potential of mutualism and design with leading thinkers and practitioners. From these dialogues emerge powerful visions of futures guided by communal self-determination and collective well-being.

Design with nature now

In 1969, Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems. To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, a team of landscape architects and planners from PennDesign have showcased some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the w...

Designing cities with people, not just for them

Designing Cities with People, Not Just for Them draws on original research and global case studies to reveal how participatory planning fosters inclusive and resilient cities. A practical guide and call to action for leaders, citizens and students alike.

Designing san francisco

A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg ...

Detecting and modeling the changes of land use and land cover for land use planning in da nang city, vietnam

Da Nang City, located in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, has developed in many aspects in the last two decades and has been known as one of the five independent municipalities of Vietnam. Today, it constitutes the Key Economic Zone in Central Vietnam. Rapid industrialization and urbani...

Digital transformation in design

Introduces contemporary research on the digitization and datafication of products, exploring topics like user experience, artificial intelligence, and virtual environments in design.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge is an academic journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

This issue explores how collaboration impacts the processes, tools, and methods of design by examining the conditions of its integration into architectural practice and discourse.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

The contributors to this issue show how making architecture may be understood as a way of thinking.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Changing Spatial Practice: inter, trans and cross-disciplinary works on collective, feminist, just spatial practices beyond extractive architecture.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 3 is concerned with the form of the doctoral thesis in practice-oriented research. It takes the love for playing with forms, genres, and...

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 2 investigates lived experience as source for the constitution of knowledge.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Dimensions is a journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. Issue 1 explores design-based, reflexive, qualitative, experience-based, archival and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge

Issue 4, »Essentials of Montage in Architecture«, provides a comprehensive collection of theories, methods, and visions to highlight the relevance of montage for visual and spatial practices as well as for knowledge production in architecture.

Drawing and experiencing architecture

Marianna Charitonidou shows how mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city's inhabitants.

Earth repair

From contaminated urban lots to polluted waterways and oil spills, how can we transform toxic landscapes and respond to environmental disasters positively and effectively? Earth Repair is packed with accessible, and practical tools for healing and regenerating ecosystems to create thriving, ferti...

Emerging global cities

This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.

Equitably developing america’s smaller legacy cities

Many smaller industrial cities in the Rust Belt declined in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This report presents strategies for reinventing these places—tapping their full potential while preparing workers for jobs, helping local businesses expand, empowering residents to become civic l...

Erasure by design

Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the work of displacement, demolition, and extraction into the present day.

Form follows fever

Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent years of initial urban settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s.

Foundations

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation’s politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private...

From shelters to dwellings

Can a shelter within a refugee camp ever become a dwelling? Ayham Dalal argues that the transformation from shelter to dwelling is a creative and imaginative process, in which social relations are carved into space while politics, time, and materiality are negotiated.

Fundamentals of planning cities for healthy living

The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.

Future real

Governing cities through regions

Deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project on the subject of regional governance in Canada and Europe. The book expands the comparative angle from economic competitiveness and social cohesion to housing and transportation and expands our perspec...

Housing redux

The book focuses on ways to reinvent public housing in New York City through a series of design projects from Yale School of Architecture that integrate form and provide social programs for the residents.The students investigated the relationship between housing, e...

Houston genetic city

Houston Genetic City offers a vision for a future Houston as a global city, beyond its current petro-economy, its laissez-faire land speculation, and its notorious sprawl. The book speculates about new forms of urbanism that offer resiliency against our changing climate—from flooding to sea level...

In the shadow of genius

Named a Gift Book for the Discerning New Yorker by The New York TimesIn the Shadow of Genius is the newest book by photographer and author Barbara Mensch. The author combines her striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative. She takes the reader on a unique journey by recalling he...

Indian architecture in postcards

Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards this book explores the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s.