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Architecture’s moral mission reached the nadir of its decline in the 1970s, after the critiques of modernism formulated by Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi unleashed a thoroughgoing repudiation of the movement’s moral pretensions. The revolutionary…

The Civil Corporation synthesizes and presents the thoughts and
conclusions emerging from two decades’ work and eff orts of myself
and others in encouraging corporations to deliver more social and
environmental ‘goods’, and fewer ‘bads’.…

The problem of
architectural theory
may be
approached
in many
different
ways. In
Intentions
in
Architecture
(1963)
to
indicate the
various factors
which deter-
mine the
architectural
totality,
as well
as
chcir…

Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design is series of
academic monographs for scholars working in these disciplines and the
overlaps between them. Building on Routledge’s history of academic rigour
and cutting-edge research, the…

One of the most important factors in creating blended learning solutions
is to recognize where it fits in the broader context of organizational
learning and development. Much of the underpinning concepts of
learning and development have already…

A square cover-plate connecting the capital with the
architrave, which in Egyptian architecture is found on
polygonal columns and pillars with floral capitals. The
visible side was frequently inscribed with a horizontal
cartouche. In late temples…

“Finally the journey leads to the city of Tamara. One enters the city
through streets which are fi lled with insignia protruding from the walls.
The eye only sees images of things which mean other things… Your
gaze scans the streets as though…

The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The sixth edition is…

I WROTE the first draft of Notre-Dame twenty-six years ago, a circumstance that would mark me as middle-aged
today, were it not for three young children who make
me feeJ otherwise. The book's origin were decidedly
modest, as a Master's thesis in…