This text examines the issues that directly affect cities and neighbourhoods. Since the 1960s, many architects and urban planners have reacted against the drab universalism and inhuman scale of modern architecture and urbanism, seeking instead to recover a sense of community and place. It is apparent to these architects and planners that something needs to be done to improve th...(展开全部)

本书为提出可替代和可持续的城市化形式，设问：生态城市主义的主要原则是什么？如何组织这些原则？设计与规划将在此过程中扮演什么样的角色？ 尽管气候变化，可持续建筑，和绿色技术等越来越受到关注，而与城市的可持续性相关的话题却相对门庭冷落。本书的写作前提是：我们迫切需要一种生态的途径来拯救当代城市并为新的城市建立原则。生态城市主义对待城市化并没有统一的方式，而是从全球的视角，多尺度和多学科的途径来应对。设计提供了一个综合性的解决方案，将生态与城市联系起来，而不与环境相冲突。 本书汇集了设计从业人员和理论家，经济学家，工程师，艺术家，决策者，环境科学家和公共卫生专家，以期更全面地理解生态城市主义及其未来。 With the aim of projecting alternative and sustainable forms of urbanism, the ...(展开全部)

Architecture and public spaces are well-accepted and often prestigious components of the urban realm. But what about technical infrastructure? Although the interdependence of infrastructure and urban development has been a central topic in urban planning, infrastructure as a design element plays a comparatively subordinate role. The book discusses spatial design implications of...(展开全部)

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discipline has emerged: landscape urbanism. In "The Landscape Urbanism Reader", Charles Waldheim - long at the forefront of this new movement - has assembled the definitive colle...(展开全部)

With populations decentralizing and cities sprawling ever-outward, twenty-first century urban planners are challenged by the need to organize not just people but space itself. Hence a new architectural discipline has emerged: landscape urbanism. In "The Landscape Urbanism Reader", Charles Waldheim - long at the forefront of this new movement - has assembled the definitive colle...(展开全部)

First published in 1999, Everyday Urbanism has become a classic in the discussion of cities and real life. Within the context of history, theory, and practice of urban design, the essays explore the city as a social entity that must be responsive to daily routines and neighborhood concerns and offer both an analysis of and a method for working within the social and political ...(展开全部)

This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China. Multidisciplinary perspectives outline the most significant critical, theoretical, methodological and empirical developments in our appreciation of Chinese cities in the context of an increasingly globalized world. Each chapter includes reviews and appraisals of pa...(展开全部)

How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers' insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, deman...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-...(展开全部)

作 者 【美】埃里克·芒福德（Eric Mumford） 建筑和城市历史学家、策展人，现为圣路易斯华盛顿大学建筑学教授。芒福德曾先后就读于哈佛大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿大学等世界著名建筑学院，并曾担任哈佛大学和哥伦比亚大学客座教授。出版过《定义城市设计》（Defining Urban Design）《国际现代建筑协会关于都市主义的论述（1928—1960）》（The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960）等多部关于现代建筑和都市主义历史和理论的专著。 译 者 刘筱 理学博士，管理学博士后，伦敦大学巴特利特规划学院访问学者。现为深圳大学管理学院教授，公共管理系主任，中国地理学会城市与区域管理委员会委员，中国科学与科技政策研究会政策模拟专业委员会委员，主要从事城市发展、城市管理与区域创新研究。