From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, the social movements of the past decade have, without being in explicit dialogue with one another, resembled the same march into the public street. Despite the breadth of the cultural, political, and t…
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"This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility. It is based on large survey answered by 14,000 participants in the bike to work action in Switzerland, and quantifies the various dimensions of utility cycling.…
This is a study about Egyptian architectural culture. It asks how did Egypt's architectural modernism converge with the country's political transition from monarchy to military republic? After 1952, the self-proclaiming revolutionary regime utilized architecture in its attempt t…
Understanding innovation through exaptation
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This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility that already …
In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone. The work draws on a range of pertinent, current theories that consider materiality, assemblages, networks, phenomenology, resource and extraction geographi…
Scholarship on late antique cities has largely conceptualized them as singular entities, either decaying or transitioning as Roman imperial power and economic structures shifted. Improved archaeological data from urban sites, accompanied by a number of broad synthetic studies, n…
"Urban Forms: The Death and Life of the Urban Block is concerned with the fundamental grammar of our cities which is the key to successful urban environments." "This work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of c…
Knox' Untersuchung vor Ort bringt 50 besonders signifikante „City Districts" aus ganz Europa und Nordamerika in Wort und Bild zur Darstellung. Seine Feldforschung konzen-triert sich auf typologisch herausragende Stadtteile, die eine. Knox' in-situ studies present 50 especially …
Convergent Flux illustrates the contemporary architectural and urban planning developments in South Korea in the context of the country's considerable urban density. In recent years South Korea, which long stood in the shadow of the superpowers Japan and China, has surged in eco…
Main description: 0Convergent Flux0 illustrates the contemporary architectural and urban planning developments in South Korea in the context of the country's considerable urban density. In recent years South Korea, which long stood in the shadow of the superpowers Japan and Chin…
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lin…
Esta tesis reflexiona acerca de los límites internos en un contexto de paisaje unitario. Se plantea un traspaso desde la noción de frontera como una línea delgada que divide recintos, de carácter administrativo, hacía la de borde como un espesor que configura lugares dentro del …
This dissertation explores the experience of arriving in the port cities of Asia Minor and the Aegean islands from the Hellenistic through the Early Roman periods, describing the historical, environmental, and architectural backgrounds of these sites and offering an outline of t…
S.H.A.M (the Syrian House of Architectural Memory) is an acronym to the word ash- Shām, or Sham which means the Levant, in general, and Damascus, in particular in the local spoken tongue.
The Nigerian city of Lagos has been the site of an unprecedented explosion in Pentecostal Christianity, even as the city's population has increased exponentially and its infrastructure has become strained. Pentecostal organizations have blanketed the city with their discourse, w…
In southwest France starting in the early thirteenth century, an estimated 500 to 700 new towns were created over the course of about 150 years. These new towns, or "bastides," were most often created on unoccupied lands and took the form of a geometric grid plan that was design…