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Urban design policies in English local plans: content and prescriptions
This paper explores the content of urban design policies in the new generation of English local development plans, and makes some prescriptions for...
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An evaluation of a private sector residential layout guide
The layout guide discussed here is design guidance produced by a national housing development company to influence the layout of housing produced by...
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Cities as movement economies
This paper is taken from the forthcoming book, Space is the Machine (Cambridge University Press, 1996) which brings together some of the recent...
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The birds have nested: design direction for informal settlements
In most cities of the develo** world, informal settlements are both the most common residential context and the dominant means of obtaining...
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The private realm of the managed town centre
This paper examines the contention that town centre management (TCM) represents a coordinated attempt to privatize the public space of the...
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Rome: the Power of Patronage
The sharp contrast between these two views of musical life in Rome during the early years of the eighteenth century cannot be accounted for by any...
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Warsaw, Moscow and St Petersburg
Most of the territories of eastern Europe are settled by people of Slavonic ethnic groups who communicate in languages that are closely related to...
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Courts and Monasteries in Bavaria
Present-day Bavaria, comprising Old Bavaria (Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate), Franconia and Swabia, acquired its present unity...
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A. J. Penty and the Building Guilds
The building guilds which flourished in Britain for a short period just after the First World War can be seen as the culmination of the tradition...
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W. R. Lethaby and the Fabians
Of all the disciples of Ruskin, W. R. Lethaby (1857–1931) is generally considered the most important in terms of architectural theory. Trained as an...
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Ruskin and the Moderns
If the collapse of the building guild experiment meant the demise of the Ruskinian tradition per se, it did not mark the end of Ruskinian influence...
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Philip Webb: Architecture and Socialism in the 1880s
Any enquiry into the relationship between architecture and socialism in nineteenth-century Britain would have to take cognisance of Philip Webb, for...
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The Architectural Theory of William Morris
The period of William Morris’s public career, which lasted from 1877 to his death in 1896, was one of crisis in the British economy. The onset of the...
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Building materials
Until the early 19th century, most buildings were constructed and fitted out with easily available, local materials. If the area was well provided...
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Built forms and building types
All designed landscapes have their origins in the domestic garden, which itself was originally inspired either by agricultural patterns or by natural...
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Services, mechanical and environmental systems
The development of services in buildings has a lengthy and complex history. It is possible, however, to introduce some order into the subject by...
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Introduction
Architecture-not a survey of styles, but of its living, material reality-is the subject of this book: architecture as it is now, and how it has...
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Megalithic Cultures
The megalithic monuments of South East Asia are widely separated. Live megalithic cultures are still found in Assam, West Burma (the Khasi, Naga and...