This is a study in vernacular architecture covering the Middle East and North Africa, particularly concentrating on the interaction between religion and society on the one hand and building practice and city planning on the other. Using various sources, some of which date back t…
"This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not bee…
"This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960. It pursues those stimuli to human creativity - myth, history, spirituality - which have not bee…
This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.
A study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience. Benjamin's critical account of the modern urban environment is traced through a number of key texts. This book highlights their relevance for our contemporary understanding of modernit…
City of darkness: life in Kowloon Walled City
by Girard, Greg, Lambot, Ian, Goddard, Charles, Mok, Gus
The economics of planning
by Turner, R. Kerry, Collis, Clive
fromMacMillan studies in economics
The economics of planning
by Turner, R. Kerry, Collis, Clive
fromMacMillan studies in economics
The economics of planning
by Turner, R. Kerry, Collis, Clive
fromMacMillan studies in economics