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Richard J Williams
The Expressway World

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastruct…

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Twentieth Century Society
100 20th-Century Sports and Leisure Buildings

100 20th Century Sports and Leisure Buildings gives a fascinating insight into the spaces where we play from swimming pools and skate parks to cricket pavilions and ice rinks, this book explores some of t…

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Sana Murrani
Rupturing Architecture

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.Written by an I…

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Spatial (In) Justice: How Does It Manifest in the Built Environment?

Explores how spatial justice shapes equitable, empowering, and inclusive experiencesIn an era increasingly defined by questions of equity and inclusion, Spatial (In) Justice: How Does It Manifest in the B…

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Harold Kalman
Eric Arthur

Eric Arthur (1898--1982) was a transformative figure in Canadian architecture. His many contributions extended across design, teaching, preservation, urban planning, criticism, and architectural history. …

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C G Beck
The Labor of Architecture

The Labor of Architecture examines the social and historical narratives that led to the illusory division between the "working class" and the "creative class." In popular imagination, …

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Infrastructuring Assemblies

An investigation into social and political assembly and how urban infrastructure can support pluralism, social resilience, and democracy.Infrastructuring Assemblies investigates the phenomenon of social a…

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Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cit…

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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

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Richard Harris
Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s

Neighbourhoods matter now more than ever before. They sustain fewer social connections, but in an era of great social inequality and high levels of immigration, they have become vital as places for homeow…

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Chris Moffat
Learning from Lahore

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future -- a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. T…

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Chris Moffat
Learning from Lahore

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future -- a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. T…

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Richard Harris
Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s

Neighbourhoods matter now more than ever before. They sustain fewer social connections, but in an era of great social inequality and high levels of immigration, they have become vital as places for homeow…

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Richard L Cleary
The Architecture of the Playing Field

A novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes' creativity and spectators' evolving experiences of sport.

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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

Zoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regul…

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Amber N Wiley
Model Schools in the Model City

Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for…

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Kristen Kreider, James O'Leary
Ungovernable Spaces

What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence, this open access book presents four case studies that demonstrate t…

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Nahid Massoumeh Assemi
Piety and Politics in Qajar Iran

The Takkiyya Mu'avin al-Mulk is a building complex in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, dedicated to the annual commemoration of the martyrdom of Husayn ibn 'Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680, an …

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Nadina Galle
The Nature of Our Cities

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, …

lieferbar ab 10.3.2026.

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Geography with John Berger

This book captures the significance of John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape, and spatial experience.

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