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20th Century Urban Design in the Netherlands
Ibelings, H.
NAI, Netherlands, 1999 176pp PB $A 88.00
306090 9
Regarding Public Space Benites, C. & Lyster,
C. (Eds)
Exploring the conception, production, & operation of contemporary
public
space in the city through articles that test the ways in which we
articulate
the built environment to make public space. The editors identify public
space
as the material manifestation of intersecting forces whose formation
involves a
complex set of manipulations in both physical space & managerial
aptitude. Princeton, USA, 2005,
160pp, PB. $A28.20
Accidental
Developer, The: The fascinating rise to
the top of Mirvac Founder
Henry Pollack Pollack, H.
An insight into the life & times of one of Australia’s major
developers. ABCAust 2005, 346pp, PB. $A32.95
After the City
Lerup, Lars
MIT, USA, 2000. HB 200pp $A 60.00
NEW TO PAPERBACK 2001 $A
42.00
After the
World
Trade Centre Rethinking
New York City Sorkin, Michael & Zukin, S (Eds.)
Inevitable,
this book looks at the theoretical context of the World Trade Centre
disaster and the "War Against Terrorism" from the standpoint of the
architect and the urban planner. Great, because it is free from
American patriotism and naive statements on the state of world
politics. Realistic, because it discusses the events of September 11
without any tones of sympathy or empathy and because it deals with the
pragmatic issues of constructing the 'city' in the 21st century, not
the nostalgic ones. Routledge, New York, 2002, 236pp, HB $A
60.00
After-Sprawl
research for the
contemporary city Xaveer de Geyter Architects
Reading
somewhat like a series of essays, both visual and literal, this is a
book where one firm goes in search of the form and meaning of the
contemporary city and demonstrate that urbanity today is defined by the
state of sprawl. This book documents and analyses the impact
of sprawl on the built space and introduces a new conceptual apparatus
and puts forward spatial propositions for the hybrid urbanity of the
after-sprawl.
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002 255pp
PB $A 48.00
Aldo van Eyck – the
Playgrounds and the City Lefraivre, Liane &
de Roode, Ingeborg
One of the more socially responsible architects of our time – Aldo van
Eyck passes his passion for fun and caring into the built environment
through urban planning and architecture which considers children and
space for them to play. This publication
documents Aldo’s ideas, processes, inspiration and built works in full.
It introduces the reader to his background, his family and offers
insight into the mind of this brilliant man. NAi Publishers, Rotterdam,
2002, 144pp HB $A 53.00
Amsterdam
Zuidas European Space Salet
W. Majoor S (Ed’s)
Continuing in
the
same vain as the original concept of “edge-cities” this
title documents the
evolution
of this concept, but now refers to it as “the
development of multi-nodal spatial networks”. Focusing on the
Zuidas, &
urban-centre environments this will be useful for anyone interested in
the
future and the evolution of cities. 010 Neth 2006 PB 199pp $A62.15
Archilab’s
urban
experiments: Radical Architecture, Art & the City
Brayer M Migayrou F
& Nanjo F.
Established in a provincial town outside Paris some eight years ago,
Archilab
has become one of the world's most significant showcases of
architectural talent.
This ambitious book was published to coincide with the major exhibition
at
Tokyo's Mori Art Museum which featured hundreds of influential works
based on
the idea of the city as the context & catalyst for the work by over
ninety
of the worlds best architects. With the
likes of Koolhaas, Hadid, Cook, Libeskind & some of the next
generation,
including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studios & Lynn. T&H UK2005
368pp HB$A75.00
Architektur in Leoben
1995-2002 Trenkler T.
This publication presents the architectural & urban planning
measures taken between 1995 & 2002 : “Der Standard” editor Trenkler
summarises the projects, analyses the situation since 1964 & gives
a view of the near future. HAD Austria 2003
PB 108pp $A47.30
Armed
Surfaces Richter, D
Presenting DRD Lab's
investigations into contemporary reality and a new typology for living.
An analysis of transitional moments in daily life instigates a
re-examination of Modern Functionalism as an ideology of standardisation and normalcy. In the diverse
projects which she undertakes, Richter seeks to radically reinvent
urban design through a game of 'retracing' and 'restitution'. The book
explores new solutions to architecture and planning exposing an
alternative view of architecture.Black Dog UK 2004
PB 64pp $A 34.00
Alexanderpolder:
New Urban
Frontiers
Thoth, Netherlands, 1993, 193pp, PB
$A 61.00
American City
A Social & Cultural History Monti. D
Blackwell, USA, 1999. 391, PB $A POA
American
City What Works What Doesn't Garvin, Alexander
McGraw-Hill, USA, 2002, 560pp HB $A119.95
Architectural
Pattern Book: A tool for building great
neighbourhoods Urban
Design Associates
From the firm that produced The
Urban Design Handbook comes a practical guide to developing &
using pattern books, a tradition stretching back to Vitruvius &
Palladio & the source of many beautiful houses & the design of
neighbourhoods today. Documenting the revival of the traditional
architectural pattern book as a means of implementing urban design. it
describes techniques & working methods for contemporary development
& construction processes. Norton, USA, 2004, 230pp, PB. $PA
American Playgrounds,
Revitalizing Community
Spaces
Solomon S
The author presents a seriously under developed topic touching on
social
history, laws, theories of play and childhood and urban planning.
University Press of New England USA 2005 260pp HB $A52.00
Architecture
and the
Urban Environment Vision
for the New Age Thomas, Derek
Architectural
Press, UK, 2002, 224pp PB $A 89.65
Architecture
of the
Information Society The
World City Expressed Through the Chaos of Tokyo
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts &
School of Architecture Publishers, Denmark, 2000, 239pp HB $A
86.00
The Art of
City Making Landry C
Earthscan UK 2006 461pp PB $A64.95(16/06)
The Art Of Placemaking:
Interpreting Community Through
Public Art and Urban Design Fleming RL
This book offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to
planning,
funding and designing public art to enhance a sense of place. The
author offers
a practical approach to tackling public art and community planning in
the US.
This is an
essential and valuable companion for anyone interested in architecture,
deisign
and the creation of places in which we live and work Merrel 2007 UK
384pp HB $A99.95 (11/08)
Asian New
Urbanism Lim,
William S. W.
Select,
Singapore, 1998, 48pp. HB $A 71.50
Atlas
of the Dutch Urban Block et al
With over three hundred images and diagrams this comprehensive
publication
provides a methodical overview of the development of housing blocks in
Amsterdam and Rotterdam from the seventeenth century up until today.
Through an
examination of nineteen different cities, this atlas brings into focus
the
dynamic relationship between individual housing, the housing block and
public
space. Thoth Netherlands 2006 HB 284pp $A108.35
Australian Heartlands:
Making Space for Hope In
The Suburbs
Gleeson B
An incisive and original exploration of urbanised Australia and a
passionate
plea for the suburbs to be given their rightful place in Australia’s
public
consciousness. Allen & Unwin 206 AUST 211pp PB $A24.95
Australian
Metropolis A Planning History. Hamnett, S (ed.)
A definitive account of the role of planning in the growth and
development of Australian cities. Allen
& Unwin , Australia, 2000. 230pp HB O/P
Beirut
is a Magnificent City: Synoptic Pictures P. Yacoub, M. Lasserre
Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, 2003. 127pp PB $A 56.65
Between the Edges: Street
building transition as
urbanity interface. Bobic, M
The complex phenomenon of urbanity is riddled with the interchange of
spatial
relationships between the private and public domain. The book’s focus
is on a
wide overview of spatial forms of transition zones between the built
form and
the street-interface that take play at different scales whilst
including
discussions about urban practise today. Thoth Publishers Netherlands
2007 143
pp. PB A$53.90
Michael
Bell: Space Replaces Us Essays
and Projects on the City
Including both design work and writings, the author and practicing
architect,
Michael Bell, has created a series of projects and essays exploring
architectural and urban design concepts for California, New York,
and Texas -- the
three most populous regions of the US. Monacelli USA 2005 PB 181pp $A89.95
Bernhard
Winking Architecture and the City Weiss, K D (ed.)
Birkhauser, Switzerland, 1999. 257pp HB $A128.70
The Besos
Planning Reform Ajuntament
de Barcelona
An account of the Besos redevelopment, which reintegrated degraded
areas of
Barcelona’s River Besos back into the city with the restoration of
public
space, and surrounding infrastructures. Actar Spain 2007 PB $A60.00
Between
Sea
and City Eight Piers for
Thessaloniki; Van Eyck, Geipel, Botta, Siza, Coop
Himmelblau, Miralles, Koolhaas and de Carlo
NAI Publishers, Netherlands, 1997. 160pp PB $A 49.50
Beyond the Edge: New
York's New Waterfront Gastil, R
Before September 11, 2001, New York City was in the process of
transforming its waterfront after decades of neglect. The tragic events
of that day brought into sharper focus the issue surrounding the
development of the water's edge, along with a host of more complicated
issues involving monuments and icons, public space and public safety,
reconstruction and renewal. Taking as points of reference the recent
reinvigoration of London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Bilbao - all cities
with high-profile waterfronts, where designers, landscape architects,
and artists have been instrumental in creating memorable buildings,
parks, and spaces - Gastil proposes an approach to the redevelopment of
New York's waterfront that is as visionary as it is pragmatic. PAP,
USA, 2002. PB 208pp $A 78.50
Biopolis - Patrick Geddes
& the City of Life Welter,V
The Scottish urbanist and biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is
perhaps best known for introducing the concept of "region" to
architecture and planning. Geddes's famous analytical triad--place,
work, and folk, corresponding to the geographical, historical, and
spiritual aspects of the city--provides the basic structure of this
examination of his urban theory. His urbanism was informed by his
lifelong interest in the theory of evolution and in ecology,
cutting-edge areas in the late nineteenth century. Although
Geddes’s work was far-ranging, the city provided the unifying focus of
nearly all of his theoretical and practical work. Throughout the book,
Welter relates Geddes’s theory of the city to contemporary European
debates about architecture and urbanism. MIT Press US 2003 355pp PB $A
49.95
Boiled Frog Syndrome
– Your Health and the Built Environment Saunders, T.
A rare insight into the built environment from the physical, human
perspective. Not really an architecture book, but incredibly important
to the practise and execution of architecture. The book explores the
cause and effect process betweens humans and the urban condition. It is
based on the notion of a frog continually changing its body temperature in warming water until it is boiled alive.
Wiley-Academy, Sussex, 2002, 261pp PB $A 52.95
Boundaries of
the
City The Architecture of Western Urbanism
Waterhouse, A.
Toronto UP, Canada, 1993. 342pp HB $A P/A
The
Boulevard
Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards
Following up Allan Jacob's renowned
"Great
Streets", this edition contains plans, drawings, traffic co-ordination
and specifications (without being a dry textbook) detailing the concept
and construction of effective and acclaimed projects. Focussing on 5
major boulevards from around the world, the book illustrates the
planning of multiway streets and how they have become integral to
designing a great city. Also including a few pages on Melbourne's St.
Kilda Road, the book offers solutions to designing these streets, more
liveable cities and ultimately, a better environment. An important book
breaking new ground in how we think about urban planning.MIT Press,
USA, 2001, 257pp, HB $A 95.00 Now
available in Paperback 2004 $A47.95
BRAKIN
Brazzaville-Kinshasa Visualising
the visible
Collected as a record and documented
in a series of mappings, a group of
scholars studied the various manifestations of the city and of public
space
using the examples of the booming capitals Brazzaville
and Kinshasa.
Viewed
as one metropolis in this study, it has been documented thoroughly.
Lars Muller Germany
2006 PB 320pp$A58.50
Brasilia’s
Superquadra El-Dahdah F.
Focusing on the city of Brasilia, nearly half a
century
after
its inception,
this renowned design by Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer & based on
Le
Corbusier 's plans, continues to be one of the world's most widely
debated
architectural projects. The latest volume in the CASE series, published
in
partnership with Harvard's Graduate School of Design, takes a new look
at the
Superquadra as a utopian concept, analysing both its strengths &
weaknesses. Featuring sketches & a rare interview with planner
Costa. There
are also essays exploring the historical & cultural contexts of
Brasilia,
day-to-day life in the city & its technical complexities &
realities. PrestelUSA2005 108pp, PB. $A 52.00
Breaking the Development
Logjam: New strategies
for building Community Support. Porter, D.L
Today’s citizens are taking an active interest in
the development of their
communities, and their support or hostility can make or break a
project. This
book describes in plain terms why, in these days of more complex
projects and
development approval procedures, it pays to win citizen support rather
than
fight opposition and how developers can involve the community in the
decision-making process and the benefits they can achieve. Urban Land
Institute.
Washington 2007 120pp. A$38.00
Breathing Cities The Architecture of Movement Barley, N. Ed.
A book about the way cities move about the flow of people, objects and
ideas which give cities their meaning. With contributions from
architects including Foreign Office and Zaha Hadid, and artists
including Richard Wentworth, Mark Dion and Nathan Coley, Breathing
Cities investigates the ideas which are revolutionising urban space.
Birkhauser, Swiss, 2000. PB 127pp $A74.50
Brussels: A Manifesto
Towards The Capital of
Europe
If Europe is a place of irreducible diversity, than Brussels- a city of
unparalleled social, political and cultural difference- is the
capital
manifestation of Europe in the form of a city. Against the rhetoric of
Europe
as a neutral ‘mosaic of differences’, this manifesto uses the
unequivocal
presence of architecture as the constituent element of a new project
for the
city- a project that ties the representative role of architecture to
the future
of Europe .
Nai Publishers 2007 Rotterdam 239pp PB $A70.00
Building Jaipur: The Making
of an Indian City. Vibhuti Sachdev & Giles Tillotson
Reaktion
Books,
UK, 2002. PB 200pp $A 65.95
Building
the 21st Century Home The Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood
Rudin. D & Falk. N
Butterworth, UK, 1999. 271pp PB $A
83.60
Building
Zurich Eisinger A,
Reuther I, Eberhard F. & Lüscher R.
Office for Urbanism is a group of urban planners who has kept up with
the
shifts and changes in the city of Zurich in the recent years, and have
worked
on specific concepts and basic rules for the development of new public
vicinities. First comparing physical changes from early 19th
century
with current conditions and observations, this publication then looks
at the
group’s formation of strategies through processes requiring the
sourcing of
information, analyses of data, documentation and ways of communication.
Discussion between various parties involved including
politicians, land
owners, architects and investors are also featured to provide in
insight into
the rigorous activities behind the planning of Zurich. Birkhäuser 2007 Germany
312pp HB $A87.50
Canal Front: Urban renewal in Brussels
Atelier D’art Urbain
Architects
This latest
book from
the “streetscape series” highlights
the work
&creations by the Atelier d'Art Urbain Architects. With a series of
projects along the canals in Brussels, Belgium, their work recalls not
only the
industrial, but more port-influenced architecture of the surrounding
district
that you may expect to see from the proximity of the canal. But it also
incorporates the typically eclectic style to be found throughout
Brussels.
Images, Aust, 2004, 128pp, HB. $A
69.95
Canberra 1912:
Plans
& Planners of the Australian Capital Competition
MUP,
Australia, 1997 494pp, HB $A65.95
Canberra
Following
Griffin A Design History
of Australia's National Capital Ried, Paul
The
National
archives of Australia have compiled almost all of their material on
Canberra and published it in this beautiful definitive volume on our
world famous capital. National archives of Australia, Canberra, 2002
378pp, HB $A 90.00
Caracas
Litoral, Venezuela: New Urbanisms 6
Columbia University Design Program
After mudslides devastated the coastal communities near Caracas in
December
1999, this new publication explores the challenges, obstacles, &
new
opportunities facing its reconstruction. With the focus directed
towards
innovative programming, sustainable geological/hydrological
infrastructure
& economically viable housing & commercial development this
will be of
interest to both architects, urban designers & planners. PAP, USA,
2005,
144pp, PB. $A 39.50
Car
Wars Davidson
G.
This is the story of our love affair with the car and how it changed a
city. Graeme Davison, Australia's leading urban historian, explores the
Melbourne he knows so well to show us how the car entered our
consciousness - as an object of desire, a symbol of status, a creator
of freedoms, a shaper of sexual mores. His is a fascinating journey
through landscapes changed and cities redesigned by the car, of mayhem
on the road and influence in the world of politics, of communities
challenged and the environment threatened, and of an ongoing love
affair with a machine. A&U Aust2004 PB308pp $A29.95
Charcos
(Puddles) Bernado, Jordi
In this very small and cute book,
Bernado explores the relationships between
architecture,
landscape and bodies of water that lie within and beyond our urban
environment. Based on the small island of Tenerife off the North
Western coast of Africa, his research extends into a new and unique
territory of architectural thinking and is documented in beautiful
photographs and contemplative essays. Actar,
Spain, 2001, PB, $A 50.00
CHINA Leach N.
Painting a portrait of this gigantic country through short thematic
segments this latest offering from Neal Leach (including photography
from Laurent Gutierrez & Valerie Portefaix) portrays China as a
fast growing industrial nation, but also as a dynamic centre of world
culture. Map HongKong2004 PB 128pp $A26.40
Chinese Architecture and
Planning: Ideas,
Methods, Techniques Guo Q
This book presents a thematic discussion of architectural history and a
critical evaluation of city planning, with a focus on the issues of
ideas,
methods and techniques in the context of the culture, politic and
religion of
pre-modern China. Axel Menges Stuttgart/London 2005 166pp HB AU$120.00
Cities From Zero
Basar S (Ed)
Vision plus Money plus Historical Circumstance
Equals Cities From Zero:
Unapologetic Expressions of New-Found Economic- and therefore
Political-
Prowess in the 21st Century.
A collection of essays about urban design and the 21st
century in
response to a select group of cities experiencing rapid growth. AA UK
2008
128pp PB A $40.70
Cities as Sustainable
Ecosystems: Principles and
practices. Newman, P & Jennings,
I
Taking cues from living systems for
sustainability strategies and drawing
from examples from around the world, Cities as sustainable ecosystems
demonstrates how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate
into a
bioregional environment and why cities should be planned with nature’s
organizing principles in mind. Island Press Washington 2008 284pp PB A
$69.95
Cities People Planet:
Urban Development and
climate change 2nd Ed Girardet Herbet
Ninety case studies of leading-edge city initiatives are supplemented
by a new
chapter that looks at how cities are constructively tackling climate
change. As
the changes to both the biosphere and the atmosphere have become
undisputed and
as the depletion of natural resources are becoming a major constraint,
this
book explores in-depth the role urban planning has to play.
John Wiley England 2008 320pp PB AU$64.95
Cities X Lines: A New
Lens for the Urbanistic
Project Busquets,
J & Correa, F
Documents three years of faculty research at the Harvard Graduate
School of
Design, that focused on the development of a pedagogic taxonomy to
frame the
methods and tools with which designers currently shape cities and open
territories. It examines new techniques in working with the built
environment,
in multiple settings, interacting with a wide array of cultures, scales
and
intensities.
Harvard University UK 2006 445pp PB $A100.00
City:
Global
history Kotkin, J.
An account of the city through history, starting from its prehistoric
precursors to its future, this title examines how the urban fabric has
evolved
over the course of its history, whilst placing weight on the timeless
role of
the city as the intersection of peoples and cultures. W&N,
UK,
2005, 218pp, HB. $A39.95
City as a Resource: One
Man’s Trash Another
Man’s Treasure Kobberling F &
Kaltwasser M
Documents the work of two artists, concerned with the use of cost-free
resources. It presents the metamorphosis of cost-free resources from
waste
found on the street to the materials used in their works, showing the
realisation of effective projects with minimum financial means. Jovis
Germany
2007 125pp PB $A32.95
City Edge: Contemporary
Discourses on Urbanism Charlesworth, E.
This series of essays outlines a number of case
studies
from
Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand
accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians
have had in reshaping cities.
Archil Press, UK, 2005, 272pp, PB. $A 77.00
City of Collision:
Jerusalem and the
Principles
of
Conflict
Urbanism Waldheim,
C. (Ed.)
Presenting
a
thorough exploration of the current situation in Jerusalem from a trilateral
perspective:
Israeli, Palestinian, and international experts air their views.
Focusing on
the production and use of urban space under the conditions created by
the
conflict, this book looks to Jerusalem
as a prototype in the age of new urban violence. Birkhäuser
Switzerland
2006 PB 400pp $A93.50
Cities for a Small Country Richard
Rogers & Anne Power
Following on from the popular Cities for a Small Planet, this new book examines
the British urban situation and proposes radical solutions. With
comprehensive research and information, this book looks as much at the
social aspects of a city, as it does at urban infrastructure and
planning. Faber & Faber, UK, 2000. 310pp PB $A 40.00
Cities
for a
Small
Planet: Richard Rogers & Gumuchdjian, P
Faber & Faber, UK, 1997. 180pp PB $A 28.00
City Gardens:
Creative Ideas for Small Spaces Nessmann P
An excellent and pictorially comprehensive guide for designing and
decorating
small outdoor spaces.
Stewart, Tabori & King USA 2008 104pp PB AU $29.95
Cities in Transition Graafland,
Arie. Hauptmann, Deborah.
010 Publishing Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2001 430pp. PB $A
POA
Cities of the World: A
history in maps Whitfield, P.
Condensing centuries of history in one volume, this is a fascinating
volume for
anyone passionate for history, travel & the early documentation of
human
civilisation. This journey via maps, explores the history of the city
as much
as the history of man himself. A beautifully book that highlights even
just the
changes in the way we see our cities, not only in plan, but as an
axonometric,
a figure ground image, or a two dimensional landscape painting. MUP,
Australia, 2005, 208pp, HB. $A 59.95
Cities
on
Rails the Redevelopment of Railway
Station Areas Bertolini, L & Spit, T.
E & FN Spon, UK, 1998. 236pp $A 115.50
Cities of
Tomorrow Updated
edition. Hall, P.
Blackwell, UK,, 1996. 502pp PB $A75.00
Cities People Planet Girardet, H.
Through a fast moving text and ninety case studies, the author presents
initiatives and policies on how to make cities around the world both
liveable
and sustainable. Starting with a concise environmental and cultural
history of
cities, the book continues as a contemporary global survey and analysis
of the
challenges of an urbanising world. The ecological redesign of cities,
where
practiced, is already showing substantial economic and social benefits
and is
now starting to be implemented across the world. Wiley, USA, 2004,
304pp, PB. $A
57.95 (11/01)
City Reborn: architecture &
regeneration in London, from Bankside to Dulwich
Powell K.
Telling the story of one of Britain’s most dynamic & successful
areas of
regeneration. Highlighting the story of architecture's role in the
renaissance
and renewal throughout all of the Southwark area, one of London’s most
historic
districts. Merrell, UK, 2005, 128pp, PB. $A
49.95 (18/02)
CPULs:
Continuous
Productive Urban Landscapes Viljoen, A.
The first book on urban agriculture for architects, landscape
architects & urban designers it extends & develops the widely
accepted 'compact city' solution. Providing a design proposal for a new
kind of sustainable urban landscape this book presents concepts with
the potential to have an immense impact on the future shape of cities.
Archi Press, UK, 2005, 280pp, PB. $A 97.55
Critical Seventies:
Architecture & Urban Planning in The Netherlands 1968-1982
de
Vletter M.
NAi The Netherlands2004 PB 258pp $A57.00
City
Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the 20thCentury. Scott, J
& Soja, E. eds
California UP, USA 1996. 483pp HB $A 76.95 PB $A P/A
City Assembled
The elements of urban form through history S. Kostof
Thames & Hudson, UK 1992. 320pp HB $POA
City in
Literature
an Intellectual and Cultural History. Lehan, R.
Cal UP, USA, 1998. 330pp PB $AP/A
City in
History It's Origins,
it's
Transformations and it's Prospects Mumford, Lewis
Harvest,
USA
(First Ed 1961) 657pp PB $A 66.00
City Life
Rybczynski, W.
Touchstone, USA, 1995. 256pp PB $A P/A
City of
Collective
Memory Its historical imagery and architectural entertainments
M.C. Boyer
MIT, USA, 1994. 560pp PB $A P/A
City of
Quartz Excavating the Future in Los
Angeles Davis. M,
Pimlico, UK, 1998. 461pp PB $A
POA
City as
Landscape A Postmodern View of Design and Planning Turner. T
UK, 1996. $AP/A
City and Port Transformation
of Port Cities - London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam. Meyer, H
International Books, Holland, 1999. HB 424pp $A 125.00
City Reader 3rd Edition.
LeGates,
Richard T and Stout Frederic
The third edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes
the very best of publications on the city. It has been extensively
updated to reflect the latest thinking on globalization, information
technology and urban theory. Classic writings from such authors as
Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and Le Corbusier, meet the best contemporary
writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Saskia Sassen and Manuel
Castells. The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the
terrain of Urban Studies, old and new. Routledge UK 2003 PB 520pp $A
79.00
City
Shaped: Urban Patterns
and Meanings Through
History Kostof,
S.
Thames, UK, 1991. 352pp PB $AP/A
City Space Sculptures
and Installations Made for Copenhagen 96
City Space, Denmark, 1996. 120pp PB $A P/A
City of
Tomorrow and
Its Planning Le Corbusier
Dover, USA, 1987. 302pp PB $A 36.50
City Transformed - Urban Architecture
at the
Beginning of the 21st Century Powell, K
Investigating specific
urban
projects divided into Urban Regeneration, Urban Extension, Transport,
and Cultural Developments. Each of the 4 chapters is prefaced by an
introduction examining historical causes, the views of critics and
reformers, and the symptoms and problems of each urban space.
Laurence-King, UK, 2000. HB 255pp $A POA
Civic
Realism Rowe, P.
MIT, USA, 1997. 255pp PB $AP/A
The Co-Housing Book:
Building a Place for
Community
Scotthanson C & Scotthanson K
A wealth of information and practical hints on how to put an end to the
isolated suburban home. This book shows how to create a modern village
within
an urban or rural setting, with a balance of community and personal
privacy NSP
2005 Canada 290pp PB $A45.00
Jo
Coenen: From urban design to architectural detail
The first comprehensive monograph on the Dutch
architect Jo
Coenen. He
is not only an architect, but also a city planner, university lecturer,
artist & until very recently, the Dutch Government Architect.
Comprising of six interviews with him, each are on central themes to do
with his work & extensive documentation. It is an inspiring
reference book on an highly individual architect. Birkhauser,
Switzerland, 2005, 448pp, HB. $A 170.00 (23/03)
Community
Planning: An
introduction to the comprehensive plan Kelly,
E.D.
& Becker, B.
An examination of the comprehensive planning process as
practiced in the United States today, with a clear,
step-by-step approach to creating a
plan for a city, town or village. Island Press USA, 2005, 480pp, PB.
$A
75.00
The
Compact
City A Sustainable Urban Form?
Jenks. M, Burton. E and Williams. K ed. T
UK, 1996. $A P/A
Consuming Architecture Diller & Scofidio, Alsop & Stormer, OMA, Martin Pawley etal Sandercock, L,
(forward),
Academy Editions,UK, 1998. 96pp PB $AP/A
Consuming
Cities Urban Environment in
the Global Economy. Low, N (ed.)
Rouledge, UK, 1999. 315pp
PB $A
54.95
Contemporary
(Greek) City Metapolis
2001 Yannis
Aesopos, Yorgos Simeoforidis
Metapolis
Press, Athens, 2001, 300pp, PB $A96.80
Copenhagen Spaces Dirckinck-Holmfeld, K. (Ed.)
This book looks at the city of Copenhagen in
four
sections: The harbour, The city centre, The bridge quarters and the new
ørestad
quarter. Between these sections are three themes: the city's squares,
parks and environmental engineering complexes.The Danish Architectural
Press, 1996, 176pp, PB $A 61.60
Creating a Vibrant City
Center, Urban Design and
Regeneration Principles Paumier Cy
Written by a leading expert in urban design who has worked with more
than 50
cities in the USA, UK and continental Europe. A comprehensive action
plan for
creating a lively and appealing city centre.
ULI 2004 USA 206pp PB $A85.00
Creeping Conformity. Harris,
R
A major contribution to North American urban
history, Harris analyses the
transformation of Canada’s
suburbs between 1900-1960. Everyone with an interest in class, gender
and
metropolitan building patterns should read this remarkable book. University of Toronto Press. Canada
205pp. PB
A$43.95
Cross-Cultural Urban
Design: Global or Local
Practice?
Bull C (ed)
Through a series of short essays this book explores how urban design
has
responded to recent trends toward global standardisation. Following an
analysis
of practice in many places and at many scales the book suggests how
urban
design and planning could move towards the future.
Routledge UK 2007 241pp PB AU$90.00
Death
and Life of Great American Cities Jacobs, Jane
Vintage, USA 1992, 458pp PB $A36.00
De Boompjes:
Four
Visions on a Waterfront Duursma,
Jan (Ed)
010
Publishers,
Rotterdam, 2002, 95pp, PB $A 38.50
Debating the City An
Anthology. Barrett J, Butler-Bowdon D Editors
Debating the City
examines current city and urban issues in Australian cities - and
specifically Sydney. Organized into 3 chapters titled; City Living
& Cosmopolitanism; Urban Visions - Public Space; and Consuming
Spaces. Writers include Philip Goad, Kim Dovey, Jane M Jacobs, Michael
Mobbs and many more. A very useful text.HHT/Uni of Western
Sydney, Aust, 2001. PB 255pp $A 34.95
Decent Homes for All Gallent
N & Tewdwr-Jones M
“Decent Homes for All” provides students, planners and researchers with
an
accessible and comprehensive narrative of the evolving relationship
between
planning policy and housing provision, showing how we have arrived at
our
present situation and examining how current issues might evolve in the
years
ahead.” Routledge USA 2007 300pp PB $90.00
Density Projects (a+t)
Arpa J & Fernandez per A
The third book to the a+t Density series, with 36 new concepts
on
collective housing by architects such as Jean Nouvel, Oppenheim, Steven
Holl,
MGM Moralles and AOC.
A+T Spain 2007 397pp PB AU $87.45
Designcity:
Design
for Urban Space and the Design
City
Discussion
Exploring global design
and the urban
environment this volume includes essays and propositions by acclaimed
theorists
such as Richard Florida, Brian Holmes, Saskia Sassen, John Thackara,
Craig
Buckley, Mike Davis, Hans Ibelings and Martin Pawley. This publication
also
features the projects showcased at the Designmai 2006 design festival
in Berlin,
presenting ideas
and approaches by designers under the parallel theme of “Designcity”.
Transform Germany
2006 PB 223pp $A79.50
Design First:
Design-based Planning for Communities Walters D. & Brown
L.L.
With the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design, firmly
back into planning practice this well-grounded history & theory of
Anglo-American urbanism illustrates & sets out objectives, policies
& design principles for planning new communities & redeveloping
existing urban neighbourhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience,
the authors explain how better plans, & consequently better places,
can be created by applying their principles of urban design &
physical place making. The book is aimed at architects, landscape
architects, planners, developers, & students. ElsevierUSA2004PB
277pp$A102.30
Design Out Crime -
Creating Safe & Sustainable Communities Colquhoun, Ian
Architectural Press UK 2004 PB 325pp $A92.40
Designing
Australia’s
Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1890-1930 Freestone R
Designing Australias
Cities
chronicles and celebrates the ideas, influences, outcomes and enduring
legacies
from the international City Beautiful movement. During this time
architects and
planners became actively aware of a need to make the country's cities
not just
efficient, productive and safe to live and work in, but also works of
art.UNSW Press 2007 Australia 325pp PB $A49.95
Designing Public,
Erlhoff, Heidkamp & Utikal
Designing public looks at different perspectives of our cities and the
individual design elements that contribute to these. The book explores
the
juxtaposition of private and public spheres and the defining factors of
the two
realms. Birkhauser, Germany, 2008, 200pp AU$54.50
Designing
Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form the City Frey. H
Spon, UK, 1999. 148pp PB $A 117.00
Developing
sustainable
planned communities Gause, J.A
This practical guide packed with examples and lavish illustrations
provides
down to earth, reality based insights into designing and developing
sustainable
planned communities that are environmentally responsive, attractive,
marketable
and profitable. Urban Land Institute. Washington 2007 220pp HB A
$130.00
Dimension of Sustainability
Scott. A
ed. This illustrated book gives a comprehensive revue of the
contemporary ideas, innovations and emerging attitudes to
Sustainability and Architecture and Urban design. Spon, UK,
1998. 147pp PB $A P/A
Dispersion: A Study of
Global Mobility
and the Dynamics of a Fictional Urbanism D.
Barajas.
Episode, Rotterdam 2003. 139pp HB $A 41.80
Drosscape: wasting land in urban
America
Berger A.
With the redevelop old toxic waste sites around America, if not
in all developed countries of this day and
age, this new publication analyses and examines 10 American cities,
both visually and
analytically,
through the use of aerial photography and geospatially derived maps,
charts,
and graphs.This title makes it clear it is a design challenge of the
most
pressing order for landscape architects, urban designers and planners.
PAP USA
2006 HB 55pp $A75.00
Eastern Harbour District
Amsterdam: Urbanism & Architecture NAi Publishers in
association with the City of Amsterdam’s Department of Physical Planning
Amsterdam’s Oostelijk
Havengebied or eastern docks consist of a number of artificial
archipelagos laid out around 1900. When the once-flourishing docks fell
into disuse, it was decided to transform the area in the 1970s into a
high-grade residential district. This transformation is now almost
completed. Jo Coenen, Sjoerd Soeters & Adriaan Geuze were among
those who made the varied assortment of master-plans
for the different areas. Many big-name Dutch architects contributed to
fleshing out these plans with housing. So the eastern docks area is not
just a successful &highly sort-after residential district, it is as
much a catalogue of 20 years of Dutch architecture & urbanism of
the highest quality. This book gives a complete overview in words
a& images of the planning & architecture of these eastern
harbour docklands supplemented by themed essays by specialists. NaiPub Netherlands 2003 HB 228pp $A120.00
Eccentric Architecture Casebere, J
The new configurational of the urban space (hypertextual, signing, a
space of messages, drifts and paths), the non-places, the large traffic
networks and the ceaseless flows, uprooting the traditional concept of
a permanent habitat. This book collects 5 artists, and their works
commenting on ideas surrounding these ideas in the built environment.
Koldo, Spain 2003 PB 152pp $A 44.00
Ecocells
Landscapes & master plans by Hamzah & Yeang Leon van Schaik
This pocket-sized book explores the idea of the
ecocell as a vertical integrating device to
bring landscape elements, daylight, rainwater, natural ventilation and
sewage recycling vertically across all levels of the built form. The
concept is explained in two master plan projects by Hamzah & Yeang
(registered T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bhd,
the Amsterdam Center of Science & Technology and the West Kowloon
Waterfront Development.Wiley, UK, 2003. PB 144pp $A 26.95
The Economics of Urban
Transportation. Small,
K.A & Verhoef, E.T
This newly expanded edition of Small’s seminal
textbook on the economics of
transportation covers new areas of parking policies, reliability of
travel
times and the privatization of transportation services, as well as
updated
treatment of congestion modelling, environmental costs and transit
subsidies.
An essential read for researchers in any aspect of urban
transportation.
Routledge New York 2007 276pp. PB A $81.00
EcoUrbanism Sustainable
Human Settlements: 60 Case Studies. Ruano, M
GG, Spain, 1999.
192pp
PB $A 95.00 
Ecology
of
Fear Los Angeles and
the Imagination of Disaster
Davis. D
Metropolitan , USA, 1998. 484pp HB
$A 60.50
Edgeless Cities: Exploring the elusive metropolis
Lang, Robert.E
Americas new metropolitan form is the basis of this book. Examining
Growth and spatial structure of suburban office space across the
nation. Data, Illustrations, maps, and photos are used to distinguish
between two types of suburban office development - bounded and
edgeless. Langs conceptual approach reframes the current thinking on
suburban sprawl. Brookings, USA, 2003. 149pp PB $A 42.00
Edition
Bauhaus
#13 Serve City Interactive
Urbanism Sonnabend, R.
Technical progress & social change have traditionally ranked among
the main
challenges to creative disciplines. Do we simply tolerate the changes
in our
living conditions or do we make as active an attempt to influence them?
Three
areas of exploration aim to explore solutions; the growing focus on
services in
the economy & society, the digitisation of the communication media
&
the resulting intensification of global interaction. Jovis, Germany,
2005, 150pp, PB. $A 39.95
#14 Dot.City:
Relational urbanism and new media Blume, T. & Langenbrinck, G.
Seven essays
examine the
long-term changes in everyday urban life
induced by
ICT's - information & communication technologies.191pp, PB. $A 39.95
#15 Other
Cities, The /IBA Stadtumbau 2010 Band1 IBA Buro
In
it's first book, The International Building Exhibition (IBA) Urban
Redevelopment Saxony-Anhalt 2010 discusses the shape of tomorrows
cities, the
international dimension of shrinkage & urban redevelopment &
the
challenges facing planning. This volume presents the full panorama of
IBA
cities in Saxony-Anhalt & describes the working methods of the
first IBA to
focus on the city as a whole. PB 270pp$A39.95
#16 UmBauhaus Weisbach
(Ed.)
At the peak of the debate on the reconstruction of the Gropius
Director's
House, the Bauhaus pulled out & decided to take a trip to record
interviews. This became a lengthy, inspirational journey through
current
affairs & a search for the future of Modernism. An unconventional
documentation of the times with contributions from Rem Koolhaas, Dan
Wieden,
Oscar Niemeyer, Jonathan Park, Hans Kollhoff, Walter de' Silva &
colleagues
of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.2004 PB 200pp$A 39.95
#17: Work Place City -
Perspectives of an
urban redevelopment culture Langenbrink, G.
Vacant apartment blocks, blighted business districts, destitute
streets,
industrial wastelands. Exurban growth has led to shrinking cities, a
perennial
problem. Grappling with this change, both philosophically &
practically, is
the purpose of this illustrated collection of essays, a rich resource
for the
generation of architects, engineers & urban planners who must face
the
decay. Jovis, Germany, 2005,
238pp, PB. A$39.95
#18: Other
cities Kremer, E. (Ed)
The second volume in a series from the International Building
Exhibition (IBA),
both local administrators & planning experts examine the role of
citizen commitment,
whether in direct political action or in everyday urban life. Jovis, Germany, 2005 PB
222ppA$39.95
ENDCOMMERCIAL/Reading
the
City Florian Bohm Ed.
Endcommerical / Reading the City conducts a visual research project of
urban street territory, compiling signs, objects, and codes within
grammatical relationships that unveil embedded social conditions and
contradictions. Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2002. HB 544pp $A
99.00
Envisioning
the City Six Studies in Urban
Cartography Buisseret, D.
Chicago U Press, U.S.A 1998. 181pp HB $A P/A
E-topia:"Urban
life Jim-but not as we know it." Mitchell, W
MIT, USA, 1999. 184ppPB $A29.95
*Euralille
the
Making of a New City Center. edited by Espace Croise
Birkhauser, Switz, 1996. 191pp PB $A
112.00
European Cities 1890-1930's History Culture & the Built
Environment. Meller, H
This book studies urban and city planning at the time of modernisation
in Europe. With industrialisation, population movement, and the war and
its associated technological shift, this era in its richness and
variety was instrumental in the formation of modern architecture and
urban planning. With examples of Garden Cities, Seaside towns, housing
estates and much more from England, Spain, Germany, France and Eastern
Europe, this book is an excellent source for the history of modern
urban planning. John Wiley, UK, 2001. PB 287pp $A 69.95
*European
Integration and Housing Policy Kleinman. M, Matznetter. W
& Stephens. M ed.
UK, 1998. $A P/A
Euroscapes Broesi, R.,
Jannink,
P., Veldhuis W. and Nio I. (Ed.s)
This book is an exploration of the landscape of 21st-Century
Europe.
MUST, Netherlands, 2003, 217pp $A 53.35
Evil Paradises:
Dreamworlds of NeoLiberalism
Davis M & Bertrand Monk D (eds)
Evil Paradises is
a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places being constructed
as
“utopias” in a capitalist era. These developments-in cities, deserts
and in the
middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption surpass our worst
nightmares.New
Press NY 2007 336pp HB $A49.95
Evolution of
American Urban Design Gosling, David
Offering a comprehensive survey of American Urban design, beginning
with an account of it’s origins from the 17th to early 20th centuries
& continuing with a decade by decade analysis of developments from
the 1950’s to the present. The author’s far-reaching examination
extends beyond architectural &planning issues to a wider picture of
the times, & he sets the development of urban planning theory &
practise in the context of the cultural shifts that shaped
them.JWileyUSA2002 PB $A103.95
EXIT
17 - Cities
This
latest issue of Exit
is devoted entirely to the city as the subject of contemporary
photography with
special portfolios examining Berlin, Havana, New York, Paris, Shanghai
&
Tokyo. Featuring contributors including: Vincenzo Castella, Frank
Thiel, Hannah
Collins, Thomas Struth, Keizo Katajima & Wim Wenders. EXIT Spain
2004 PB180pp $A50.60
Faster And Bigger
Projects and discussion;
diagnosing a rapidly changing
Korean society. A collection of university academics and students from
around Korea
have put
together this publication of essays and projects.
Space Korea 2007 331pp PB $A47.85
Fear
&
Space: The view of young designers in The
Netherlands Urban Affairs Office
Western society is terrorized by fear, which is leaving behind an ever
more
visible trace within & on the urban fabric. Here young &
contemporary Dutch
designers have been asked how they would explore the theme of fear
& space.
NAi, NL, 2005, 160pp, PB. $A 58.00
A
Field Guide to Sprawl
Hayden, D.
A
small dictionary of urban sprawl; from zoomburbs to rural slammers,
with aerial photographs and definitions that convey the impact of
uncontrolled growth in America.Norton 2004 USA
125pp HB $A38.95
FLUID
CITY: Transforming Melbourne’s Urban Waterfront Dovey K.
Tracing the transformation of Melbourne’s urban waterfront from 1983
to2003. It portrays the fluid city in terms of intersecting flows of
“desire” – for identity, views, power & profits, whilst asking how
we reconcile these “desires” with public interests. UNSW Aust 2004 PB
277pp $A59.95
Framing
Places Mediating Powers in Built Form. Dovey, K
Routledge, UK, 1999. 218pp PB $A60.50
From the
Suburbs - building a nation from
our neighbourhoods
Latham, Mark
"From the Suburbs" is a collection of Mark Latham's papers over the
past two years, reflecting his work as a creative and assertive Labor
frontbencher. It is a fantastic to begin the design process for
delivering socially responsible spaces and structures to the Australian
public. Pluto Press, Australia, 2003, 150pp PB $A24.95
FUN! –
Leisure and Landscape Metz, Tracey
Exploring the consequences of the leisure industry for the physical
appearance of the Netherlands. Tracy Metz investigates, describes and
analyses how the demand for entertainment leads to changes in the
historic city centres, the marketing of nature and the cultural
heritage, and the development of leisure centres and attraction parks.
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2002, 285pp PB $A60.00
Future City
Read, S. (Ed) et al
Mixing the experience of
particular
urban places with
a more general discourse about the nature of urbanism today and cities
as the
dominant, even universal, form of human settlement in the future. The
book
focuses on understandings of inherently dynamic urbanisation processes;
from
the making of cities, present transformations of cities & our
ability to
influence or even define the urban future by planning & design.
Spon, UK, 2005,
296pp, PB. $A96.00
Future
Forms &
Design for Sustainable Cities Jenks,
M. & Dempsey, N.
This
collection of essays from international
contributors presents the latest research about urban forms & how
they can be
made more sustainable in the future. However, unlike other books on
urban
sustainability, this book focuses on sustainable planning & design
issues
from the regional to the block scale. ArchiPressUSA 2005,
444pp PB$A77.00
Future-Proofing 02:
Lipton S, Rogers R, Wise C
& Smith M Ed Rappaport N with
Steffen A
The Edward P. Bass fellowship brings leading property developers to
advanced
studios at the Yale School of Architecture where they work side by side
with
the design faculty. This book is an accumulation of the students works
and
interviews with the faculty staff. The project is set in the city of Stratford. The
Yale School of Architecture
USA
pp 192 PB $40.95
GENO(V)A: developing & rebooting
a waterfront city. Edited by Carnevali G. et
al
Of
all
European cities, Genoa is perhaps the one which has undergone
the most radical changes in appearance over the last decade. This book
combines the original ideas for the master plan, by the likes of MVRDV,
Foreign Office Architects, OMA & Tschumi, with the final
international competitions winners UN Studio & their
three-dimensional plaza that provided the city of Genoa with both a
port and a heart for their city. Netherlands 2003 282pp HB $A100.00
Genoa Berlin: City,
street, house Brenner, K.T. et al
Shedding a new light on one of the most important & probably oldest
topics of
European urban architecture: the street. Taking Genoa & Berlin as
typological examples, a total of 22 individual house plans were drawn
up as
part of a studio conducted by Klaus Theo Brenner: each represents a
fresh,
creative planning possibility in view of the current redensification of
urban
space. Jovis, Germany,
2005, 130pp, PB. $A37.95
Ghosts
of
Berlin: Confronting German History in
the Urban Landscape.
Ladd, B.
Chicago UP, USA
1997.
271pp, PB $A P/A
Global
City Blues Solomon
D.
Presenting a perceptive
overview and
insightful assessment of how the power and seductiveness of modernist
ideals lead
designers astray, this book consists of a series of independent but
linked
essays that discuss the ideas of New
Urbanism, a reform movement he helped found that has risen to
prominence in the
past decade. Island Press USA 2006 PB 253pp $A29.95
Great Planned Communities The urban
Land Institute Gause, Jo Allen
ed
Drawing on the
pioneering ides of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Clarence
Stein and j>C. Nichols. These planned communities incorporate a mix
of housing types and price points, retail space, offices community
gathering places, and open space such as parks and bicycle trails A
documentation of gated communities. Urban Land Institute USA 2002 HB
286pp $A160.00
Great
Streets A.B.Jacobs
MIT, USA 1993.
352pp PB $A P/A
Green
City, The: Sustainable homes,
sustainable suburbs Low,
N.,
Gleeson, B., Green, R. & Radović, D.
In “The
Green City” a multi-disciplinary team of Australian professionals
explain how ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday
life of homes, communities and cities. UNSW
Press, Aust, 2005, 247pp, PB. $A 39.95
Green
Cities: Urban Growth
and the Environment Kahn M.E.
This
publication traces the environmental
effects of economic, population and geographic growth in cities that
are
experiencing the expanding dilemma. Are economic growth and
environmental
health mutually exclusive? Kahn addresses this ongoing debate and
defines the
idea of a “green” city. Brookings 2006 USA 160pp PB $A35.95
Ground-Up City Play as a
Design Tool Lefaivre
L & Dőll
Maps the continuing history of an urban design strategy for play in the
city.
Lefaivre has developed a theoretical model for tackling playgrounds as
an urban
strategy by focusing particularly on post-war playgrounds realised in Amsterdam. The
architecture
firm Dőll explored the possibility of applying the model in two urban
re-development areas in Rotterdam.
010 Holland, 2007 125pp PB $A64.35
Guide
to ECSTACITY Coates N.
In this
encyclopaedic
book, Nigel Coates unfolds his view of the
contemporary metropolis in the form of an hypothetical place described
by The Guardian as "a
gloriously dynamic vision of what a city
might be if only we stretched out imagination". This book constructs an
urban kaleidoscope marked by cultural diversity, accessibly written yet
vigorous & as complex as the city itself. It is a sourcebook,
architectural survey, novel & autobiography. LKing 2003 HB 464pp
$A125.00
Halfway to Everywhere: a portrait of
America's first-tier suburbs. Hudnut,
William H
America's
first-tier
suburbs that ring large central cities were often
left behind during the extraordinary revitalization of the downtown
1990's. This book look at the cycles of first tier suburbs in the USA,
and provides his hopes and strategies for rejuvenation of such places.
Urban Land Institute USA 2003 PB 478pp $A 37.50
Happy: Cities & public
happiness in post-war
Europe Wagenaar
C.(Ed)
This is an analysis
of
the fascinating search for expressions &
representations of happiness in the European city in the later half of
the 20th
century. Images depicting happiness, in which there is a relationship
between
three elements happiness, city & space have been collated from more
than 50
European cities. Reading as a travelogue of such, it reveals
fundamental motifs
in the dynamic of our thinking about the city. NAi, NL, 2005, 512pp,
PB. $A
75.00 
Hans Hoffmann - The Chimbote
Project: The synergistic promise of
modern art
and urban architecture Costa, X.
This publication extensively documents the Chimbote Project, the
collaboration
between Hans Hoffmann & Josep Lluis Sert in 1950 that adresses
concepts for
new public spaces within cities & the collaboration between art
&
architecture. MacBa, Spain, 2004, 140pp, HB. $A 62.00
Harbour: products for the harbour
2004-2006 Danish Arts Foundation Architecture Committee
With more than 100 harbours of Denmark undergoing dramatic
transformation, harbours/docklands are fast becoming beacons for new
forms of architecture in ever-changing modern cities. Presented as a
sales catalogue with 8 different product lines, the Harbour Shop
project aims to communicate & generate new ideas for small-scale
interventions, which in turn will inject new architecture & life
into evolving harbourscapes. IDEA, Denamrk, 2004, 160pp, PB.$A
75.90
Werner
Hegemann and the Search for Universal
Urbanism Crasemann Collins, C.
Recounting Werner Hegemann’s contribution to the modern movement in
architecture & city planning in the first half of the 20 century,
examining
the theoretical & ideological basis of his belief in an urban
universality
to benefit humanity & discussing the criticism he encountered. Norton USA 2005HB
418pp $A77.95
hiCat
Research Territories
Analysing
every component of a territory, using
Catalonia as a case study but saying as much or more about the entire
world. Part one of this dynamically designed two-volume set (which
holds together magnetically) takes a statistical approach to
territorial research. Bursting with inventive charts & graphics, it
makes use of statistics to compare the facts of Catalonia to those of
territories around the world, from Djakarta to Chicago to Finland.
Variables are cross-referenced with others to form suggestive
connections between, for instance, education and cultural consumption.
~Part two takes an architectural and urban planning tack, inviting a
world of innovative designers to propose projects and strategies,
specifically for application in Catalonia, but with obvious relevance
to anywhere and everywhere. Participants include FOA, Abalos &
Herreros, MVRDV, NL Architects, UN Studio, and West 8, among others.
Proposed scenarios consider such issues as senior tourism, sport
cities, university campuses, industrial parks, airports, and suburbia.
Actar, Spanish, 2004, Vol 1 192pp, Vol 2 704pp, HB. $A 130.00.
HK LAB
Gutierrez,
Manzini, Portefaix (Eds.)
Hong Kong is one
the
largest, densest and most fascinating of urban
metropolis's. Exploring the condition of housing, planning,
development, access, environment, culture and identity.
Map Book Publishers, Hong Kong, 2002, PB $A 104.50
HK
LAB 2
Gutierrez, L.
et al
Following on from where HK LAB left off here we
explore the
concept of the city & its urban practices through artists projects
& a
number of theoretical & critical viewpoints on Hong Kong interior
spaces. Map, HongKong, 2005, 345pp, PB. $A79.20
Hot Towns: Future of
the Fastest Growing Communities in America Wolf, P.
Rutgers, USA, 1999. 283pp
HB $A 55.00
*Housing
Policy in
Europe Balchin. P ed.
UK,
1999. $A P/A
*Housing
the
Essential Foundations Balchin. P &
Rhoden. M ed.
UK,
1998. $AP/A
Hybrid Zones: art
& architecture in Basel & Zurich Edited
by Omlin S. & Frei Bernasconi K.
Kunst-und-Bau commissions, awarded by the
state or private developers,
are an important means of promoting art in public space. They provide
artists with the opportunity to realize projects in a concrete
architectural space outside the museum. The artists who create a
Kunst-und-Bau project are the first interpreters of the constructed
space. The hybrid zones that evolve perform a concrete architectural
function while merging with the public artistic sphere & museum
space via the artwork. Birkhauser Germany2003 PB 160pp
$A42.50
Hyperborder: The
Contemporary U.S-Mexico Border
and its Future. Romero, F / LAR
The United States-Mexico border is one of the most complex and dynamic
areas of
the planet today. Fernando Romero provides a multi-disciplinary account
of this
dynamic region and begins to examine issues faced by other border
regions;
North-South Korea, Israel and Palestine, France, Switzerland and
Germany by
using current economic, political, social and environmental trends to
project
potential scenarios for the border at the midway mark of the
twenty-first
century. Hyperborder is a non partisan report from the front
line of the
border debate. Princeton
Architectural Press
New York 2008 317pp. PB A$59.50
IJburg:
Haveneiland
and Rieteilanden Claus,
van Dongen & Schaap
As MVRDV created
the
imaginary Meta-City/Data Town, the authors of this
book have documented the actual statistics and designed conditions of
this part of the Netherlands - IJburg. Dealing with both the
discussions surrounding Holland's "Artificial Landscape" and the need
for highly sophisticated urban planning, the strength of this book is
the beautiful graphics and images used to describe the architecture in
question. 010 Publishers, Netherlands, 2002, 155pp, PB
$A 84.15
Japan.
Towards Totalscape Kira M, Terada M Eds.
Locating
Japanese architecture, urban design and landscape architecture in the
social and cultural context of present-day Japan. More than a collation
of contemporary work, this book seeks to examine the relationship
between the architectural work and its surroundings. There is also
discussion and analysis of the Metropolitan, Urban, Rural, Natural and
Artificial Landscape and how it influences architecture. NAI, Holland,
2001 PB 332pp $AP.O.A
Idea
of the
Functional City a Lecture with Slides 1928. van Eesteren, C.
NAI, Holland,
1997.
160pp HB $A P/A
Ideal City – Real Projects: Architekten
von Gerkan, Marg und Partner in China
Lingang New City is a planned harbour city for 800,000 inhabitants
close to
Shanghai. Conceived by German firm gmp in the tradition of ideal
cities, the
neighbourhoods are arranged in concentric rings around an artificial
circular
lake. Urban elements & spaces fulfil different communal functions
while
giving the plans an identity. Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2005,
192pp, HB. $A88.00
In
Search of Public Space Four Architects from
London Fretton, T. Parry, E. Ronalds,
d'Avoine, P.
The British
Council
Catalogue, UK, 1997. PB 278pp $A 104.50
Ideal
Cities: Utopianism and
the
(Un)Built Environment Eaton, Ruth
Thames &
Hudson, UK, 2002 HB $A 140.00
IImages
of
the Street Planning, Identity and Control in Public
Space Fyfe, N.
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