Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Re...(展开全部)

For a thousand years across the length and breadth of China and beyond, people have burned paper replicas of valuable things—most often money—for the spirits of deceased family members, ancestors, and myriads of demons and divinities. Although frequently denigrated as wasteful and vulgar and at times prohibited by governing elites, today this venerable custom is as popular as e...(展开全部)

This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the city. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that too much contemporary urban theory is based on nostalgia for a humane, face-to-face and bounded city. Amin and Thrift maintain that the traditional divide between the city and the rest of the world has been perforated through urban encroa...(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)

唐·伊德（Don ihde，1934－），波士顿大学哲学博士（1964），纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系杰出教授（distinguished professor），当代著名技术哲学家和现象学家。 Don Ihde是纽约州立大学石溪分校哲学系教授，一位著述颇丰的当代美国当代哲学家，他的研究跨越了技术哲学和现象学。主要代表作有：Philosophy of Technology - An Introduction；Instrumental Realism - Interface Between Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology；Technology and the Lifeworld: From Garden to Earth; Bodies in Technology等。Ihde还主编了“印...(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)

戴维•西蒙（ David Seamon） 美国堪萨斯州立大学建筑系教授。主要研究领域为基于现象学的环境行为、环境美学、地方营造和建筑鉴赏等。曾就读于马萨诸塞州伍斯特市的克拉克大学，并在1977年获得博士学位。其主要思想深受人文主义地理学家安•布蒂默（Anne Buttimer），以及哲学家亨利•博尔托夫（Henri Bortoft）和约翰•戈多芬•贝内特（John Godolphin Bennett）等影响。*新著作《一处一生机：现象学、生活世界和地方营造》（LIFE TAKES PLACE: PHENOMENOLOGY, LIFEWORLDS AND PLACE MAKING）是基于本书思想内容的延续性探索。 周尚意：北京师范大学人文地理学教授，中国地理学会文化地理学专业委员会主任。著有《中国文化地理概说》《中国文化地理》《文化地理学》《文化与地方...(展开全部)