Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State
This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives—aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political,…
Faculty Publications
China’s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts and Well-Being
Photograph of “China’s Urban Communities: Concepts, Contexts and Well-Being Authors: Peter G. Rowe; Ann Forsyth and…
Thermodynamic Interactions: An Exploration into Material, Physiological and Territorial Atmospheres
The interconnection between the environment and its climate, its built structures and the human body…
Beyond the City
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for…
Urban Disaster Resilience: New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment
Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated…
The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India – Documenting the Exhibition and its Allied Events
The Urban Design Research Institute hosted the State of Architecture: Practice and Processes in India,…
Permutations of Descriptive Geometry
This book examines the history, theory and practice of parallel (orthographic) and central (perspective) projection.
Rebuilding the American City: Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core
Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate…
The State of Architecture: Practices and Processes in India
By 2050, India’s cities will be populated by 850 million people. Will India’s cities have…
Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence
As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic…
Is Landscape: Essays on the Identity of Landscape
Is Landscape . . . ? surveys multiple and myriad definitions of landscape. Rather than…
Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City
Many people are not familiar with Kumbh Mela, and yet it is the largest…
PHYTO: Site Remediation and Landscape Design
PHYTO: Site Remediation and Landscape Design, (co-authored with Kate Kennen ASLA) (Routledge, 2015) (Korean and…
Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture
Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its…
Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography
Applied Research and Design 2014 Unique in scope, scale, and civic aspiration, Mexico City…
Urban Ecology: Science of Cities
How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology…
Urban Intensities: Contemporary Housing Types and Territories
Author: Peter G. Rowe Author: Har Ye Kan Birkhauser, 2014 Combining the…
Flights of Imagination
In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in…
Prestige Retail Design and Development
Prestige Retail: Design and Development Perspectives on the High-End Luxury Goods Market is a study…
Light Harmonies
The rhythmograms by Heinrich Heidersberger (1906–2006) are intricately curved compositions of pure light that…
Rotes Wien: Architektur 1919-1934. Stadt-Raum-Politik.
Das Herzstück des “Roten Wien” waren die Gemeindebauten, 400 Häuserblöcke, die, verteilt über die ganze…
Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol. 34, no.1
Special issue on time guest edited by Sonja Dümpelmann and Susan Herrington…
NYC 2040: Housing the Next One Million New Yorkers
New York 2040: Housing the Next One Million New Yorkers is a transdisciplinary examination…
Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity
Chichester, Wiley, 2013 Once condemned by modernism and compared to a ‘crime’ by Adolf Loos,…
Smart Cities: Théorie et Critique d’un Idéal Auto-réalisateur
Éditions B2, Collection Actualités, 2013 « Comment faire vieillir les villes intelligentes ? » Telle…