Planning, History and Environment Series
About the Book Series
This series offers a unique window on the creation of the modern environment. Designed for an international readership, the emphasis is on:
- urban and regional planning
- recent as well as longer-term history
- what the past can tell us about the present
- local as well as global and comparative topics
Within this framework the books address three themes:
- regional, continental and comparative studies
- planning histories of key cities
- changing planning ideologies and policies
No Little Plans: How Government Built America’s Wealth and Infrastructure
1st Edition
By Ian Wray
June 18, 2019
Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand have claimed, that planning leads to dictatorship, that the state is wholly destructive, and that prosperity is owed entirely to the ...
Trajectories of Conflict and Peace: Jerusalem and Belfast Since 1994
1st Edition
By Scott A. Bollens
January 08, 2018
Creating peace for a city’s intimate enemies is harder than making war. This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 – how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating stasis and...
Remaking the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge: A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature
1st Edition
By Karen Trapenberg Frick
July 27, 2016
On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of ...
Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Harris, Peter Larkham
June 22, 2016
The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location.Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, ...
Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?: A New Future for the Cottage Estates
1st Edition
By Martin Crookston
April 07, 2016
Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six decades of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a new and optimistic form of housing – the...
Great British Plans: Who made them and how they worked
1st Edition
By Ian Wray
October 02, 2015
Can the British plan? Sometimes it seems unlikely. Across the world we see grand designs and visionary projects: new airport terminals, nuclear power stations, high-speed railways, and glittering buildings. It all seems an unattainable goal on Britain’s small and crowded island; and yet perhaps ...
Planning by Consent: The Origins and Nature of British Development Control
1st Edition
By Philip Booth
March 31, 2015
**Please note this is an unedited paperback reprint of the hardback, originally published in 2003** The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997. Remarkably, the system has survived more or less intact but the experience of the 1980s has left large ...
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events: Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America
1st Edition
By Clara Irazábal
February 24, 2015
This book reveals the recent urban history of nine major Latin American cities – Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotá, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires – through studies of their public spaces and the events that have taken place there. The case studies provide an ...
Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Emily Gunzburger Makas, Tanja Damljanovic Conley
February 12, 2015
This book explores the planning and architectural histories of the cities across Central and Southeastern Europe transformed into the cultural and political capitals of the new nationstates created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In their introduction, editors Makaš and Conley...
Planning the Great Metropolis: The 1929 regional plan of New York and its environs
1st Edition
By David Johnson
January 14, 2015
As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson’s critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface to this edition, the questions faced by the ...
The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric
1st Edition
By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan
October 08, 2014
This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the ...
Twentieth-Century Suburbs: A Morphological Approach
1st Edition
By C.M.H Carr, J.W.R Whitehand
September 11, 2014
**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 2001. The paperback released in 2014 is a reprint of the original** Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental...