Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city tend to overstate the role of rationality in public life. Inspired by the architectural and urban criticism of such writers as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Kolson adopts a user's perspective on issues of urban design, an approach that highlight...(展开全部)

The Urban Design Reader brings together some of the most influential writing on the historical development and contemporary practice of urban design. Emerging as a distinct field of environmental design practice in the late 1950s, urban design bridges the fields of architecture, planning, landscape architecture, civil engineering, urban development, and social science - with ...(展开全部)

Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old m...(展开全部)

An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian F...(展开全部)

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic...(展开全部)

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts. Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area of academic endeavour, of public policy and professional practice. Compiled by the a...(展开全部)

Diana Crane is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and has also taught at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Poitiers. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Gulbright Award and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has published numerous articles and several books,including Invisible C...(展开全部)

The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

Alfred V．Aho 博士是哥伦比亚大学计算机科学系主管本科生教学的副主任，IEEE Fellow，美国科学与艺术学院及国家工程学院院士，曾获得IEEE的冯·诺伊曼奖。他是《编译原理》(Compiler：Principles，Techniques，andTools)的第一作者。 他目前的研究方向为量子计算、程式设计语言．编译器和算法等。 John E．Hppcroft 博士是康奈尔大学工程学院院长兼计算机科学系教授，IEEE Fellow，美国科学与艺术学院及国家工程学院院士，1986年因其在数据结构、算法设计与分析等领域的重要贡献而获得图灵奖。他还是《自动机理论，语言和计算导论》(Introduction to Antomata Theory，Languages，and Computation)的第一作者。他目前的研究方向是信息存取。 Jefi...(展开全部)