These two books, from different urban series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, offer contrasting perspectives on the deindustrialization of America’s twentieth-century manufacturing centers. In Design After Decline, Brent Ryan focuses on the efforts of Philadelphia and Detroit to rebuild after decades of population loss and economic decline. He places both cities in the broader...

This research explores the potential for using behaviors and strategies of parasites as a model for sculptural propositions in the built environment, and investigates how these interventions might resonate with concerns in architecture, urbanism and sociocultural politics.

This scientific article analyzes the impacts of symmetry in architecture and urbanism, how this characteristic can influence design development urban environments. The relationship between aesthetic perception is examined, as well its on functionality human experience built environment. Through a solid theoretical framework rigorous research methodology, different approaches used application ur...

The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy. Most assume cities and state-level social organization were deliberate functional adaptati...

The world’s first cities emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria) in the fourth millennium BC. Attempts to understand this settlement process have assumed revolutionary social change, the disappearance of kinship as a structuring principle, and the appearance of a rational bureaucracy. Most assume cities and state-level social organization were deliberate functional adaptati...

In the eighties, as Head of Urban Planning of Barcelona City Council, upon the restoration of democracy and having, as director, effected an unprecedented reshuffle at the Barcelona School of Architecture, Oriol Bohigas brought about a Copernican shift in designing and understanding public space in the city of Barcelona. That Urbanism took the form of remodeling, the shift from plan to project,...