Man-Made Future

Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte

This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical,...

Published December 19th 2006 by Routledge.

Rethinking Technology

A Reader in Architectural Theory

Edited by William W. Braham, Jonathan Hale

This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the...

Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge.

Pathologies of Modern Space

Empty Space, Urban Anxiety, and the Recovery of the Public Self

By Kathryn Milun

Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical...

Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge.

Framing Strategic Urban Projects

Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

Edited by Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini

Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban...

Published December 12th 2006 by Routledge.

Re-forming Britain

Narratives of Modernity before Reconstruction

By Elizabeth Darling

The emergence of British modernism has gone largely unconsidered, so whilst historians have examined Britain's engagement with modernity in terms of art, politics and planning,...

Published December 7th 2006 by Routledge.

Experiential Landscape

An Approach to People, Place and Space

By Kevin Thwaites, Ian M. Simkins

Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives. The book...

Published December 5th 2006 by Routledge.

Power and Virtue

Architecture and Intellectual Change in England 1660–1730

By Shiqiao Li

This is the first full-length study on the connections between English architecture and intellectual change between 1660 and 1730. As new ideas developed in post-Restoration...

Published November 24th 2006 by Routledge.

Housing and Social Transition in Japan

Edited by Yosuke Hirayama, Richard Ronald

Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account...

Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge.

Mediating Modernism

Architectural Cultures in Britain

By Andrew Higgott

In this well illustrated volume, Andrew Higgott demonstrates how architectural books and journals have created twentieth century architectural culture in Britain.

Mediating Modernism discusses the publications,...

Published November 22nd 2006 by Routledge.

The Emergence of the Interior

Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

By Charles Rice

Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how...

Published November 14th 2006 by Routledge.