Author: Diego Barajas
Publisher: Educational Studies Pr
Keywords: fictional, urbanism, dynamics, mobility, study, global, dispersion
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-06-30
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 905973002X
ISBN-13: 9789059730021

Author: Jeffrey Hou
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: remaking, contemporary, cities, urbanism, guerrilla, public, space, insurgent
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-05-27
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0415779650
ISBN-13: 9780415779654

In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities. With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur

Authors:Kenneth Hall, Gerald Porterfield,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Keywords: small, communities, suburbs, urbanism, design, new, community
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2001-03-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 007134523X
ISBN-13: 9780071345231

*A practical guide to implementing New Urbanism principles in suburbs and small communities*Case studies present clear solutions for typical suburban problems: the need for pedestrian access, the lack of parking, the presence of industrial-park eyesores, and the issue of how to create a "sense of place"*Illustrations take architects and planners step-by-step through the design and development process

Author: Joseph Connors
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: chicago, architecture, urbanism, wright, lloyd, house, frank, robie
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1984-05-15
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0226115429
ISBN-13: 9780226115429

The Robie House in Chicago is one of the world’s most famous houses, a masterpiece from the end of Frank Lloyd Wright’s early period and a classic example of the Prairie House. This book is intended as a companion for the visitor to the house, but it also probes beneath the surface to see how the design took shape in the mind of the architect. Wright’s own writings, rare working drawings from the period, and previously unpublished photographs of the house in construction help the reader look over the shoulder of the architect at work. Beautiful new photographs of the Robie Ho

Authors:Douglas Kelbaugh, Kit McCullough,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: architectural, education, series, acsa, reader, urbanism, design, writing
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2008-07-31
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0415774381
ISBN-13: 9780415774383

Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour. Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia.  Writing Urbanism is the ideal volume for both students, architects and urban designers.

Authors:Steve Graham, Simon Marvin,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: mobilities, urban, condition, technological, infrastructures, urbanism, networked, splintering
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2001-07-25
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 0415189640
ISBN-13: 9780415189644

Two defining processes shape our age: the urbanization of our planet and the uneven connections of globalization. Both are underpinned by radical transformations of networked infrastructures: telecommunications, transport, energy, water, and even urban streets. Splintering Urbanism offers a path-breaking analysis of the contemporary urban condition through the lens of such infrastructure networks. It develops an unprecedented international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks, new technologies, and contemporary urban spaces.

Authors:Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias B
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Keywords: architecture, urbanism, level, games, computer, time, play, space
Number of Pages: 495
Published: 2007-10-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 376438414X
ISBN-13: 9783764384142

Computer and video games are leaving the PC and conquering the arena of everyday life in the form of mobile applications (such as GPS cell phones, etc.) – the result is new types of cities and architecture. How do these games alter our perception of real and virtual space? What can the designers of physical and digital worlds learn from one another? Space Time Play presents the following themes: the superimposition of computer games on real spaces and convergences of real and imaginary playspaces; computer and video games as practical planning instruments. With articles by Espen Aarseth,