在欧洲，城市广场是一种古老的文化；在中国，城市广场是城市建设中广受关注的问题。
本书以对国外(从古希腊至现代)的40个典型城市广场的观察、分析为线索，阐明城市广场发生、发展的社会动力，力图从社会学和建筑学的双重视角建构城市广场的整体轮廓，认为城市广场的综合品质应是空间品质和社会品质的有机统一，并尝试将其进行量化研究，提出一种城市广场品质的客观评价体系。
按照这个体系，对我国典型城市广场(从近代至今14个城市的18个城市广场)的建设历史与现状进行梳理，分析中国传统城市的空间特征及其社会动力，指出传统的中国城市缺少城市广场这一空间元素，中国城市广场的出现来自于西方城市文化的影响，而当今中国的城市广场大多只是一种展示性元素，缺少与城市及市民生活的关联。
书中史料剖析部分图文资料详实，脉络清晰；对广场品质的分析、评价客观明晰，尤其是细分出各影响因素，颇具可操作性，适于在设计中应用。
本书可供建筑设计、城市设计、城市规划、城市管理以及相关领域的研习、实践者阅读参考。

To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, "The Arcades Project" (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of 13 years - "the theatre," as the author called it, "of all my struggles and all my ideas." Focusing on the arcades of 19th century Paris - glass-roofed rows of shops that were early centres of consumerism - Benjamin presents a montage of quotations from, and reflections on, hundreds of published sources, arranging them in 36 categories with descriptive rubrics such as "fashion," "boredom," "dream city," "photography," "catacombs," "advertising," "prostitution," "baudelaire," "theory of progress." His central preoccupation is what he calls the commodification of things -a process in which he locates the decisive shift to the modern age. This book is Benjamin's effort to represent and to critique the bourgeois experience of 19th century history, and, in so doing, to liberate the suppressed "true history" that underlay the ideological mask. In the bustling, cluttered arcades, street and interior merge and historical time is broken up into kaleidoscopic distractions and displays of ephemera. Here, at a distance from what is normally meant by "progress," Benjamin finds the lost time(s) embedded in the spaces of things.

《中国城市化建设丛书:英国城乡规划(第14版)》内容简介：英国是现代城市规划的发源地，其独特的理论体系、法律构架和实施措施影响深远。本书全面系统地探讨着这一体系的成就与问题，跟踪其发展演变，“从历史发展的角度诠释当今政府的政策与行为”，与读者分享其解决问题的经验，带给读者全视角的启迪与思考。
在浩瀚的城市规划文献中，很少有专著像它这样，问世四十多年来保持着长久的生命力和持续而广泛的影响力。《英国城乡规划》自1964年初版以来不断更新、完善，长盛不衰，至今已推出第14版，其影响力亦远远超越了英国本土，被誉为城市规划界的“圣经”。英国在过去50年间利用规划体系解决土地利用和空间发展的冲突与竞争的各种措施对我国具有重要的参考价值。故我社引进其最新版本，由专家精心翻译、严谨译校，认真编校，以期为我国城市规划的发展、完善提供有力的借鉴。
《中国城市化建设丛书:英国城乡规划(第14版)》共分12章：规划的本质；城乡规划的演变；规划机构；规划框架；开发控制；土地政策；规划、环境与可持续发展；遗产规划；规划与乡村；城市政策与旧城更新；交通规划；规划，职业与公众。书中对英国城乡规划的各种理论、技术与政策问题进行了深入的探讨与评价，并提供了大量的法规、案例、背景信息等等，使读者得以更深刻地理解那些发生在规划“背后”的原因与机制。《英国城乡规划》的内容已远远超越了狭义、传统的城乡规划范畴，几乎涉猎了英国城乡发展、空间规划的所有重要方面，并采用与通常国内规划研究不同的视角，因此也使它的阅读对象变得更为广泛。每章附有“深入阅读”和注释，正文后附有翔实的参考文献、官方出版物、各种索引，便于读者进一步研习。
《英国城乡规划》确为系统学习西方城乡规划知识、了解其发展历史、理解其内涵、借鉴其方法的一本重要读物。

The celebrated design professor here tackles the question of how best to communicate real-life experience in a two-degree format, whether on the printed page or the computer screen. The Whole Earth Review called
a "passionate, elegant revelation."

Reyner Banham was a pioneer in arguing that technology, human needs, and environmental concerns must be considered an integral part of architecture. No historian before him had so systematically explored the impact of environmental engineering on the design of buildings and on the minds of architects. In this revision of his classic work, Banham has added considerable new material on the use of energy, particularly solar energy, in human environments. Included in the new material are discussions of Indian pueblos and solar architecture, the Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings, and the environmental wisdom of many current architectural vernaculars.

Architectural form reconsidered in light of a unitary conception of architecture and the city.

Architects today incorporate principles of sustainable design as a matter of necessity. But the challenge of unifying climate control and building functionality, of securing a managed environment within a natural setting--and combating the harsh forces of wind, water, and sun--presented a new set of obstacles to architects and engineers in the mid-twentieth century. First published in 1963, Design with Climate was one of the most pioneering books in the field and remains an important reference for practitioners, teachers, and students, over fifty years later. In this book, Victor Olgyay explores the impact of climate on shelter design, identifying four distinct climatic regions and explaining the effect of each on orientation, air movement, site, and materials. He derives principles from biology, engineering, meteorology, and physics, and demonstrates how an analytical approach to climate management can merge into a harmonious and aesthetically sound design concept. This updated edition contains four new essays that provide unique insights on issues of climate design, showing how Olgyay's concepts work in contemporary practice. Ken Yeang, John Reynolds, Victor W. Olgyay, and Donlyn Lyndon explore bioclimatic design, eco design, and rational regionalism, while paying homage to Olgyay's impressive groundwork and contributions to the field of architecture.

窗，是建築的眼睛。
窗的風景，是人的風景。
窗的故事，也是人的故事。
28個國家，76座城市，135扇窗
光、風、人，文化、城市、生命的面貌
◆窗的實景，數百張無限驚奇的窗景實照全彩精印
◆窗的插圖，實寸測量精細繪製，獨具價值的窗設計和窗建築導覽
◆窗的地圖，依氣候別、宗教別、地理位置呈現窗的風景與人的風景
◆窗的思考，從風土民情、社會、宗教規範、建築用途到文化和生命的風貌
◆窗的大覽，柯比意等建築大師窗設計精采收錄，專文解析窗的人文觀察
◎我們的生活裡，都少不了一扇「窗」
千姿百態的窗，吸引光、風、熱等自然能量，也召喚人們，賦予休憩、潤澤和寧靜，在文化、城市、社會的進展過程中展現萬種風情。「窗」象徵著生活其中的人們的「生」。
師承東京工業大學民用建築傳統的日本著名建築師塚本由晴，特別關注建築與人之間的關係，善於在有限條件下創造功能多變的實用建築，並藉由居於其間的使用者來為建築增添力量。
本書由東京工業大學塚本由晴研究室編著，研究室成員透過實際的測量和田野調查及訪談，記錄世界各地的窗，並觀察每扇窗擁有的多樣化風景，完成獨具意義的環遊世界窗之旅。他們造訪28個國家，足跡遍及76座城市，查訪並重新調查135扇窗，整理歸納充滿生命感和文化力道的窗景，思考窗與光、風、人的關聯，導引出開窗與關窗、窗內與窗外的新思維。
◎實踐的窗與詩意的窗
在20世紀大量生產的時代，為了提高原料的製成率，設計的條件被規格化。而在商品化的過程中，其實也隱含了許多人類感受世界時不可或缺的要素。近代工業化後，窗成為最先進的商品之一，但窗的周邊濃縮了最多樣化的行為要素。窗原本存在於牆壁等特定的圍護結構中，屬於圍護結構裡的部分開放空間，有著連絡內與外的露出功能。然而，在生產的理論中，窗被當成一個零件，使窗再度被限制於自身的框架裡。原本應該打破圍護結構的窗，被塞入制式的固定概念。
從行為的角度來觀察窗，透過窗照射進來的光和風、光產生的熱、受到熱的吸引靠近窗旁並眺望窗外的人、街上來往的人們、庭院延伸的綠意風景，這些與窗不可分割的事物，聚集了許多目光，窗本身也存在於這些延伸出去的眾多要素的關係當中。
窗的周圍有自然的旨意，如光、風、水、熱等，在這些日照下或通風良好的地方，吸引人接近並主動調整窗的開闔，這是人的風景。此外，沿著走道排列的多扇窗，反覆出現在建物群的牆面，呈現出與單一扇窗不同的風景，複雜的韻律和圖樣，構成創造城市空間的獨特窗景。
◎窗的文．圖
本書分為三部：「光與風」、「人同在」、「交響詩」，每扇窗以一跨頁介紹，精采呈現窗景照片、建物用途/所在地/氣候別等資料、窗景插畫，以及精闢的解說文字。窗景插畫實地測量繪製，標示詳細尺寸，極具參考價值。
書中收錄的窗景，範疇涵蓋市井生活的窗到大師之作的窗，地域跨五大洲，宗教含括基督教、伊斯蘭教到自然崇拜，氣候別從熱帶到凍土。這遠不止是一本旅行記述，也非窗的設計或建築考察，完成這趟窗之旅時，成果是這部訴說窗的故事和人的故事的精采之作。

Franz Schulze's acclaimed biography is a captivating story of the life, designs, and ideas that made Mies van der Rohe one of the world's most celebrated modern architects.
"The most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best....This is a genuinely readable book....Because no writer has ever before probed into Mies's life at such depth, we have here the first definitive reconstruction of the architect's personal habits, loves, fears, triumphs, loneliness and (in his old age) agonies."--Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune
"A herculean, generally successful effort to present Mies's work in terms of both character and context....The substance is impressive and much of the material is fresh and revealing....This book has obviously been a long labor of love and respect for which no source has been left untouched."--Ada Louise Huxtable, New York Times Book Review
"Schulze's excellent book...is absolutely worthy of its subject. Soundly researched, vividly detailed, and hard to fault critically, it is the most complete survey ever written of Mies'[s] life and works....No one else has approached Schulze's achievement in telling the whole story over eight decades."--Allan Temko, San Francisco Chronicle Review
"Schulze has both the gift of an architectural historian able to render Mies's building innovations and that of a biographer able to paint the humanity and shortcomings of the man."--Jane Holtz Kay, Christian Science Monitor
"By its broad scope, its eloquent style, and, above all, its prodigious scholarship, this book clearly establishes itself as an indispensable volume for the library of the serious Mies scholar."--Louis Rocah, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
"In Schulze's hands Mies is no longer the impassive monolith he has sometimes seemed to be, but a complex human being whose varying moods reflected and affected the vicissitudes of his life and work....Yet, in this model architectural biography, [Schulze] also knows and brilliantly demonstrates the integral nexus of architecture and life."--Thomas S. Hines, Progressive Architecture
"Franz Schulze's Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography captivates from the very first paragraph....The writer is a skillful storyteller. In his hands, Mies's life acquires the intensity and dramatic progression of a novel."--Juan Pablo Bonta, Design Book Review
"A revelation....The man who emerges from its pages is not cold and rational but exuberant and illogical."--Donald Davis, Newsweek
"[A] readable, well-researched and sympathetic biography."--Mark Girouard, Washington Post Book World
"The standard life of Mies for some time to come."--William H. Jordy, The New Criterion
"[A] distinguished and eloquent biography."--Paul Goldberger, New York Times
"[A] magnificent biography."--Diana Ketcham, The Oakland Tribune

华纳的《德国建筑艺术在中国》可以说是真正以历史文献和现场调查为基础的“在青岛的德国建筑”研究的开端。华纳的研究在1993年完成。10多年中，华纳在德国的指导教师和青岛本地年轻的研究人员，陆续修订了华纳当年的一些错误，使得在青岛的德国建筑的基本面貌有了一个比较完成的呈现。华纳之后的研究成果，多是在青岛本地的媒介和出版物上发表的。

God's Own Junkyard' is a muckraking book. Peter Blake sets the pace of his direct and uncompromising attack, by commenting 'This book is...written in fury, though not, I trust, in blind fury. It is a deliberate attack upon all of those who have been befouled a large portion of this country for private gain, and are engaged in befouling the rest. Some of these latter-day vandals are well organized and well financed - such as the billboard industry whose profitable creations along our highways have been implicated in a staggering number of car accidents. Some are 'little people' - tradesman and shopkeepers trying to make a modest living - people without ties to the landscape or townscape in which they live, people whose eyes have lost the art of seeing. And still others are all the rest of us - all of us who no longer care, or no longer care enough."
In four brilliant and devastating covers, Peter Blake sets forth the case against the collusion of politics, business, and public indifference which is deprecating the American landscape and in five additional chapters masterfully documents in 157 pictures the evidence supporting his contention that the townscapes, landscapes, roadscapes, carscapes, and skyscapes of America are being laid waste by venality, vulgarity, and general, if not systematic, 'uglification.

This first volume of the Getty Conservation Institute's "Readings in Conservation" series presents a comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture. Designed for students of art history as well as conservation, the book consists of 46 texts, many originally published in obscure or foreign journals. The 30 art historians and scholars represented raise questions such as when to restore, what to preserve and how to maintain aesthetic character. Excerpts have been selected from the following books and essays: John Ruskin "The Seven Lamps of Architecture"; Bernard Berenson "Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts"; Clive Bell "The Aesthetic Hypothesis"; Cesare Brandi "Theory of Restoration"; Kenneth Clark "Looking at Pictures"; Erwin Panofsky "The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline"; E.H. Gombrich "Art and Illusion"; Marie Cl. Berducou "The Conservation of Archaeology: and Paul Philipott "Restoration from the Perspective of the Social Sciences".

本书是当代文化遗产保护理论的奠基之作，也是从事文物保护研究与实践人士的必读书目。主体部分包括八章正文和七章附文，其中既有布兰迪曾经发表的论文，也有以中央修复研究院的教学讲义为基础整理而成的文章：涵盖绘画、雕塑、建筑等艺术门类；涉及修复的概念，艺术品的本质、时间性与空间性，伪造的判别，残缺的整合，古锈的保留等论题；提出了可识别性、可逆性、预防性修复等重要原则。本书还包括《修复理论》意大利文版及英文版序言、重要的导言性文章及补充阅读材料，完整收录原版插图，结合保护实例对原文进行注释，完整呈现布兰迪理论的产生背景及其深远影响。

尤卡·尤基莱托所著的《建筑保护史》是当之无愧的关于建筑保护发展历史的经典著作。作者尤卡·尤基莱托教授是当今世界最著名的文化遗产保护史学家和哲学家之一，他很早就投身建筑规划和保护行业，因通晓多种语言，如英语、法语、德语、意大利语、瑞典语、芬兰语等，故而在建筑保护领域具有难 以比拟的优势。《建筑保护史》是他二十多年的经验与思索的总结，对世界主要是西方建筑保护的发展历程做出了全面介绍，并指出这种发展如何影响了国际文化遗产保护活动。书中包含大量的保护案例和系统丰富的史料，这些资料即便是专业人士都很难积累获得，遑论一般读者，因此可作为所有希望更好地了解建筑历史的人士的必读著作。

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is one of the giants of twentieth-century architecture and design. Born Charles Edouard Jeanneret in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the self-named Le Corbusier was not only the creator of some of the most important and impressive buildings of the last century--Villa Savoye at Poissy, the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, the Parliament Building in Chandigarh, India--he was also an accomplished painter, sculptor, furniture designer, urbanist, and author. His work and social theories continue to be a dominant force in the world of architecture and design, while his elegant bearing, typified by his round black eyeglasses, which are still today a signature look for architects around the world, helped cast him as an heroic figure out of Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead.
Drawing on an array of archival material, including sketches, photographs, and correspondences, Le Corbusier Le Grand depicts in roughly chronological order not only the vast and varied output of Le Corbusier, but also the major events, people, and forces that shaped the life of an artist who continues to fascinate those in and outside the architectural world.

《明日之城市》一书，是世界著名建筑与城市规划大师勒·柯布西耶的一部经典著作。在该书中，柯布通过对20世纪初的城市发展规律和城市社会问题的关注、思考和研究，提出关于未来城市发展模式的设想，即“现代城市”理想，希望通过对现存城市尤其是大城市本身的内部改造，使其能够适应未来发展的需要。柯布主张关于城市改造的4个原则是：减少市中心的拥堵、提高市中心的密度、增加交通运输的方式、增加城市的植被绿化；基于这些最基本的原则，柯布以巴黎市中心为实例进行了300万人的“现代城市”的规划设计。

《城市读本(中文版)》广泛收录了关于城市研究和城市规划方面的经典和最新的文献共计54篇，其中37篇翻译来自“城市读本”（英文版）第五版，17篇为新收录。为了便于读者学习，《城市读本(中文版)》的特色是：提供了全书的导演、每个部分的引言及每篇文章的编者导读，还翻译、更新了《城市读本(中文版)》的部分框图，并且新加了14张与中国城市有关的框图。