Fundamentals of the Physical Environment has established itself as a well-respected core introductory book for students of physical geography and the environmental sciences. Taking a systems approach, it demonstrates how the various factors operating at Earth's surface can and do interact, and how landscape can be used to decipher them. The nature of the earth, its atmosphere and its oceans, the main processes of geomorphology and key elements of ecosystems are also all explained. The final section on specific environments usefully sets in context the physical processes and human...

Der Schwerpunkt unserer Aufmerksamkeit, heit es bei Alison und Peter Smithson, hat sich verlagert: von Gebauden als Objekten auf die Auswirkungen der Gebaude zur raumlichen Ausformulierung des Territoriums. So wie der Wohnungsbau die wichtigste Aufgabe der Architekten der Klassischen Moderne war, sollte die raumliche Ausformulierung des Territoriums die wichtigste Aufgabe unserer Zeit sein. Im Sinne dieser Forderung entwickelt Italienische Gedanken - weitergedacht die in dem 1996 erschienenen ersten Band untersuchte Beziehung zwischen Gebauden und ihrer Umgebung, zwischen Architektur und...

2016 New editorship

Elisabeth Blum, Jesko Fezer, Gunther Fischer, Angelika Schnell

Not unjustly referred to as legendary, this series of books on the history and theory of architecture and urban development was founded in 1963 by Ulrich Conrads, who was joined by Peter Neitzke as a co-editor of the series in the early 1980s. Now numbering over 150 titles, it is the most comprehensive German-language book series covering these fields. Following the deaths of the two longtime editors Ulrich Conrads (2013) and Peter Neitzke (2015), a...