Michel Desvigne is the most renowned French landscape architect in the world. Based in Paris, he has held guest professorships at such distinguished institutions as the Architectural Association in London and Harvard University. Desvigne?s projects have a strong strategic and co…
Chapter 1. Picturing the city: urban panoramas on the Leipzig Ring -- Chapter 2. Conquering the wasteland: Oldenburg's urban empire in the northwestern moors -- Chapter 3. Taxing the urban border: the persistence of Prussian city walls -- Chapter 4. The shantytown frontier: city…
Cities interrupted: visual culture and urban space
Cities interrupted: visual culture and urban space
'Cities Interrupted' explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalisation in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, B…
This book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach to urban design, whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within its study and practice. It informs users who are grappling with urban design research problems, but who need the inspiration to m…
"This book on Stephen Willats pulls together key strands of his practice and threads them through histories of British cybernetics, experimental art, and urban design. For Willats, a cluster of concepts about control and feedback within living and machine systems (cybernetics) o…
"Form-Based Codes are the latest evolutionary step in the practice of development and land-use regulation. A growing alternative to conventional zoning laws, Form-Based Codes go beyond land use to address not just the physical form of buildings but also surrounding streets, bloc…
