Product Description: As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside...read more

Product Description: Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California looks at the growth of cities in California from the early 1930s to the early 1990s and how artists responded to the state s changing metropolitan landscape over the course of those six decades...read more

Looks at the work of the Chicago architectural firm Holabird & Roche, from 1880 to 1918. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is a survey which examines the development of architecture and design for air travel from 1909. The book documents developments in airport architecture, aircraft construction, and interior design, right through to airline corporate identity...read more

Product Description: One of the country's largest and most important postwar architectural projects, the United States Air Force Academy opened in 1958. With its spectacular natural setting and stunning Modernist design, the Academy was quickly hailed as a national landmark and attracts over a million visitors each year...read more

Product Description: Since joining Perkins & Will in the late 1970s, Ralph Johnson has revitalized the venerable Chicago firm with a flurry of award-winning projects ranging from public schools across the country to the Morton International Building in Chicago, to large-scale buildings in Korea and Singapore...read more

The architecture and development of Benicia, a small town near San Francisco, are examined by an architectural historian