How to Build a City

The field of historic preservation is becoming more socially and culturally inclusive through increasing diversity in the profession and enhanced c...

Reducere. George Washington is remembered for leading the Continental Army to victory, presiding over the Constitution, and forging a new nation, but few kno...

How can industrial production be reintegrated into the urban fabric in a post-digital world Research from Harvard's Graduate School of Design addre...

Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a s...

Reducere. With World War II raging throughout Europe, the United States knew it needed to produce magnesium-the "miracle metal"-in prodigious quantities. Tho...

Reducere. DescriptionBrooklyn, a magical name, both fantasy and enigma. Yet despite its reputation, Brooklyn consists of provincial, suburban neighborhoods, ...

DescriptionThe first book by AD 100 designer Emily Summers, featuring interiors that celebrate a new idea of American modernism. Weaving mid-centur...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert...

Reducere. A model for designers of mass housing anywhere: how homes can be built in one of the world's densest citiesThis volume focuses on one of Mumbai's a...

Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations...

Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by ex...

Reducere. Life is an enduring mystery. Yet, science tells us that living beings are merely sophisticated structures of lifeless molecules. If this view is co...

Reducere. Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging from the er...

The celebrated designer and author of The Language of Interior Design takes readers deeply into her process of selecting the details for elegant, c...

Reducere. With World War II raging throughout Europe, the United States knew it needed to produce magnesium-the "miracle metal"-in prodigious quantities. Tho...