Architectural History Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. François Blondel

   Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

   By Anthony Gerbino

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Mapping Modernity in Shanghai

   Space, Gender, and Visual Culture in the Sojourners' City, 1853-98

   By Samuel Y. Liang

   Series: Asia's Transformations

   This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Garden City

   Past, present and future

   Edited by Stephen Ward

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   ** Please note, the HB was published in 1992. The PB version, an exact reprint of the HB, was released in 2011** This examination of a phenomenon of nineteenth century planning traces the origins, implementation, international transference and adoption of the Garden City idea. It also...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
4. Japanese Love Hotels

   A Cultural History

   By Sarah Chaplin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Drawing on theories of place, consumption and identity, Sarah Chaplin details the evolution of the love hotel in urban Japan since the 1950s. Love hotels emerged in the late 1950s following a ban of licensed prostitution, then were extremely popular in the 1970s, were then legislated against in the...

   Published October 19th 2010 by Routledge
5. Representing Calcutta

   Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny

   By Swati Chattopadhyay

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities

   Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny is a spatial history of colonial Calcutta, addressing the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two interrelated concerns about the city. The first is the image of Calcutta as the...

   Published March 14th 2006 by Routledge