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
Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries
1st Edition
By Thomas Hall
November 17, 2011
**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 1991. The paperback released in 2011 is a reprint of the original**Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis is on the period from the mid-nineteenth ...
The Garden City: Past, present and future
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Ward
November 17, 2011
** 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 ...
The Place of Home: English domestic environments, 1914-2000
1st Edition
By Alison Ravetz, Alison Ravetz, R. Turkington
November 17, 2011
**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 1995. The paperback released in 2011 is a reprint of the original** A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses on the various influences bearing on ...
City and Soul in Divided Societies
1st Edition
By Scott A. Bollens
October 12, 2011
In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on seventeen ...
Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005
1st Edition
By Duanfang Lu
May 17, 2011
In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival documents, professional journals and her own fieldwork, she explores hitherto ...
Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Christopher Silver
May 13, 2011
Planning the Megacity examines the dramatic transformation of Jakarta over the past century. In 1900, the colonial capital of the Netherland Indies, then known as Batavia, was a compact city of approximately 150,000 inhabitants. During the next hundred years, but especially after 1950, it was...
Urban Coding and Planning
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Marshall
April 06, 2011
Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly ...
The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasser Elsheshtawy
April 05, 2011
"This outstanding collection, written by sophisticated and engaged Arab architects/urbanists, is a stunning sequel to Planning Middle Eastern Cities (2004) Like its predecessor, it does three things: effectively demolishes the monopoly ‘orientalists’ had over the topic; integrates grounded Arab ...
Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?
1st Edition
Edited
By Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli
July 26, 2010
Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an ...
Planning Europe's Capital Cities: Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Urban Development
1st Edition
By Thomas Hall
November 25, 2009
During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes - from Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of Paris.Thomas Hall examines the planning process in fifteen of those cities and addresses the following questions: when and why ...
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950
1st Edition
Edited
By Arturo Almandoz
November 25, 2009
In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe, and France in particular, shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to ...
Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasser Elsheshtawy
November 25, 2009
Cairo, Baghdad, Algiers and Dubai cannot be easily lumped together as a single group. Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid, ranging from those rich in tradition, to 'forgotten’ cities, to newly emerging Gulf cities.The authors here, Arab scholars and architects local to the...