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  • Supergrid and Superblock

    Lessons in Urban Structure from China and Japan

    by Xiaofei Chen ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure. The book opens with an introductory essay by Barrie Shelton in which he sets the scene for what is to follow, emphasizing how alien this structure was to Western urban design culture where radial patterns of development ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • A City is Not a Tree

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Love Hotels

    A Cultural History

    by Sarah Chaplin ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the 1980s and are now perceived as ‘leisure’, ‘fashion’ or ‘boutique’ hotels.Representing a timely ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Future City

    Edited by Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job van Eldijk ...
    This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles with over twenty million inhabitants. This book tackles the causes of these changes, and looks at ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Latour for Architects

    by Albena Yaneva ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories ‘flourished’ in the 1980s in the aftermath of the structuralism wave and generated new concepts and methodologies for the understanding of the social. In the past decade, Latour and his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have gained popularity among researchers in ... Read more

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  • Posthuman Glossary

    Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Professor Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Theory in the New Humanities
    If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a “posthuman condition”; the combination of new developments-such as the neoliberal economics of global capitalism, migration, technological advances, environmental destruction on ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Ambient Commons

    Attention in the Age of Embodied Information

    by Malcolm McCullough ...
    On rediscovering surroundings when information goes everywhere.The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015

    Developments and Dialogues

    by Ari Seligmann ...
    Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern and post-modern architecture. The book introduces the diversity of Japanese architecture and traces the evolution of Japanese architecture in the context of domestic and ... Read more

    $24.19 USD

  • Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies

    by Akkelies van Nes, Claudia Yamu ...
    This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a step-by-step approach for its application in urban planning and design. This textbook aims to increase the accessibility of the space syntax method for the first time to all graduate students and researchers who are dealing with the built environment, ... Read more

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  • Architecture in the Space of Flows

    Edited by Andrew Ballantyne, Christopher Smith ...
    Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more difficult to discuss, but more necessary, because it is what makes things work. Architects have to think ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Experimenting with Ethnography

    A Companion to Analysis

    Edited by Andrea Ballestero, Brit Ross Winthereik ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Drawing Architecture and the Urban

    by Sam Jacoby ...
    Drawing is an important means to analyse information and develop rigorous arguments both conceptually and visually. Going beyond the how-to drawing manual, this book provides an instrumental approach to drawing, especially computer-generated drawings; it outlines how drawings should be used to convey clear and analytical information in the process of design, as well as the communication and ... Read more

    $45.00 USD