Städtebau

The Morphology of Urban Landscapes - History, Analysis, Design

Gerber, Andri; Kurath, Stefan; Iseli, Regula; Primas, Urs
Reimer Verlag

The urban morphology investigates settlement and urban forms. These do not change overnight, but in a process that follows certain principles. There is hardly anything more complex and...

City Parks

Beanland, Christopher
London 2023

Hier sind 50 der besten öffentlichen Stadt-Parks der Welt...alte wie der Central Park in Manhatten oder der Phoenix Park in Dublin, aber auch viele weniger bekannte wie der Seoullo Park in Korea...

Urbanizing Suburbia - Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City

Kaminer, Tahl; Ma, Leonard; Runting, Helen
Berlin 2023

Urbanizing Suburbia considers three current and related processes underway in global cities: the hyper-gentrification of inner cities, the financialization of housing, and the structural changes...

Die grüne Stadt (Konferenz zur Schönheit und Lebensfähigkeit der Stadt 12)

Sonne, Wolfgang; Mäckler, Christoph

Der Klimawandel stellt unsere Städte vor grundlegende Herausforderungen: Sie müssen Hitze und Starkregen standhalten und vor allem ressourcenschonender und CO2-neutraler werden. Wie kann dies...

Shared Structures, Intimate Space - Housing in Mexico

Canales, Fernanda
Actar

A case study that analyzes the relationship between ideas and houses, this book focuses on 100 years of housing projects in Mexico: from the space that lies between bedrooms to that of streets and...

Cohousing in Barcelona - Designing, Building and Living for Cooperative Models

Sakamoto, Tomoko; Devesa, Ricardo
Actar Publishers

Barcelona offers a prime example of the co-housing model as an asset prized for its use value as opposed to investment. This book is a compilation of cooperative housing projects in Barcelona, both...

Urban Mix - Visualizing Movement in Eight Crossroads Around the World

Lemoine, Stéphane
Actar

Mobility questions our ways of inhabiting the city. They are attached to multiple social approaches, constrained by the geography of the city and linked to the available energies. However, their...

Zukunftsfähige Lebensräume - Grundlagen für urbane Transformation

Birkhäuser Verlag

Planungsleitfaden für gute Lebensräume Der intelligente und angemessene Umgang mit der Ressource Lebensraum ist kulturell, sozial und wirtschaftlich entscheidend für unsere Zukunft. Das Bauen...

Repository: 49 Methods and Assignments for Writing Urban Places

'Repository' offers a set of methods and assignments intended to stimulate new approaches in architecture, urban studies, and other fields of spatial development and to invite creative, often...

Slow Urban Planning - Tribsees' Zukunft machen

Matton, Ton
Jovis Verlag

Obwohl der öffentliche Raum im Osten Deutschlands nach der Wende aufwendig saniert wurde, leiden viele Kleinstädte und Dörfer unter Wegzug und Leerstand. So auch Tribsees in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,...

Hybrid Factory, Hybrid City

Now that urban industry is often clean, green, small, and quiet it can be integrated at the city and building scale with other uses. Although little explored as of yet, we don’t yet know what this...

The Caring City: Health, Economy, and Environment

Chinchilla Moreno, Izaskun; Palahí, Marc

This book invites us to rethink architectural and urban models, prioritizing not so much the technical, formal and abstract knowledge sought by urban planners, as the public and civic dimension of...

Urban Design Methods

Million, Angela; Misselwitz, Philip
Jovis Verlag, Basel

Urban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces. Architects and landscape architects, as well as...

stadt: - Camillo Sitte 1843, 1883, 1903

Monschein, Christoph; Sitte, Camillo; Steiner, Erwin; Zeininger, Angelika
Müry Salzmann Verlag

Die gigantischen Umgestaltungen von Rom, Paris und ansatzweise auch von Wien in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts veranlass­ten Camillo Sitte zum Verfassen seines Buches "Der Städtebau nach...

Future Public Spaces - Urban Design in Times of Crisis

Krebs, Roland; Mayr, Stefan
Jovis Verlag

What is required to renew and articulate public spaces? The need for, and demands of, public spaces are highly specific to the local spatial and social conditions under which people live. Action at...

MetroLab

Krebs, Roland; Mayr, Stefan
Berlin 2023

Today`s cities are growing rapidly, creating heterogeneous urban fabrics that cross administrative and political borders. To meet the challenges of our time, a new cross-sectoral, multi-level and...

Designing Cities - Basics, Principles, Projects

Schenk, Leonhard
Birkhäuser Verlag

Manual for Urban Design Second and revised edition of the successful edition with new projects Urban design is based on planning and design principles that need to meet functional demands on the...

Metropolen

Wilson, Ben
Frankfurt 2022

Opulente Ausstattung mit farbigen Bildteilen.Wie kommt es, dass heute die Hälfte der Menschheit in Städten lebt? Der Historiker Ben Wilson spannt einen faszinierenden Bogen von der Urgeschichte in...

Sustainable Urban Planning - Vibrant Neighbourhoods, Smart Cities, Resilience

Bott, Helmut; Grassl, Gregor; Anders, Stephan
Edition Detail

Life in the city is popular and creating liveable urban space is undoubtedly a priority for planners. Yet what makes a city worth living in? How do we define sustainable neighbourhoods that will...