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
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonia Hirt, Diane Zahm
September 03, 2014
Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs...
Sociable Cities: The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City
2nd Edition
By Peter Hall, Colin Ward
July 24, 2014
Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost ...
Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism
1st Edition
By Peter Hall
October 28, 2013
This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas?...
The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Nicholas A. Phelps, Robert Freestone
October 25, 2013
Knighted in 1998 ‘for services to the Town and Country Planning Association’, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a ‘Pioneer in the Life of the Nation’, Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning. ...
Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle
1st Edition
By Yasser Elsheshtawy
May 03, 2013
Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development. With ...
Healthy City Planning: From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity
1st Edition
By Jason Corburn
May 03, 2013
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case ...
Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes
May 03, 2013
In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve...
Of Planting and Planning: The making of British colonial cities
2nd Edition
By Robert Home
March 01, 2013
‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its ...
Learning from the Japanese City: Looking East in Urban Design
2nd Edition
By Barrie Shelton
May 03, 2012
Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s written language is recognized as one of ...
Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989
1st Edition
By Claire Colomb
January 10, 2012
This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘...
From Garden Cities to New Towns: Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946
1st Edition
By Dennis Hardy
November 17, 2011
**Please note that the 2011 paperback is an exact reprint of the original hardback which was released in 1991** This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of pressure groups to influence policy; and ...
From New Towns to Green Politics: Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1946-1990
1st Edition
By Dennis Hardy
November 17, 2011
**Please note that the 2011 paperback is an exact reprint of the original hardback which was released in 1991** From the 1940s to the 1990s From New Towns to Green Politics charts the course of successive issues and campaigns - from the reconstruction of Britain's war-torn cities, to the ...