A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier people Charles Montgomery’s Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it b...(展开全部)

[加]查尔斯·蒙哥马利（Charles Montgomery）：一名屡获殊荣的记者。他也因作品《鲨神》（The Shark God，加拿大版名为《最后的异人》 [The Last Heathen]），获 2005 年查尔斯·泰勒非小说类文学奖。他创建的“幸福都市”项目（Happy City)已运行了10年有余，致力于研究和探索城市规划及设计与居民的健康、幸福感、人际关系的影响，并提供相关的咨询和设计。

Acknowledgments While I have taken a number of years to synthesize the ideas in this book，they would never have gotten between two covers without the help of friends and associates．Among the fast to be acknowledged are my colleagues，past and present， at The Nailsbia Group who daily monitor events in every coro ner of this society，especially my close associate and friend Jef...(展开全部)

How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmann’s eyes (aided by his analysis of...(展开全部)

<DIV>Fifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design as a distinct architectural and planning practice. Today, with the world’s urban population surpassing three billion people, urban design has become more crucial than ever. Indeed, the concerns that initially brought leading architects and city planners together—including concerns over spr...(展开全部)

Spiro Kostof (1936-1991) was a professor of Architectural History at the University of California at Berkley, and also taught at M.I.T., and at Yale, Columbia, and Rice universities. His many books include The Architect: Chapters in The History of the Profession (1977) and A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (1985), now a standard text. He edited America by Design (...(展开全部)

Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a repository of cultural meaning and an embodiment of the community it shelters. Widely used by both architects and students of architecture, The City Shaped won the AIAs prestigious book award in Architecture and Urbanism. Includes hundreds of photos and drawings that illustrate Professor Kostof.

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)

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)

[意大利]达尼洛•帕拉佐（Danilo Palazzo），博士，曾任意大利米兰工业大学建筑与规划系副教授，现为美国辛辛那提大学规划学院院长、教授。 [美国]弗雷德里克•斯坦纳（Frederick Steiner），曾任美国得克萨斯大学奥斯丁分校建筑学院院长，现为宾夕法尼亚大学设计学院院长、教授，主要讲授景观分析、景观建筑理论和环境影响评价等课程。