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 Twentieth Century Capital Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By David Gordon
November 25, 2009
The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide. This book explores what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one city to another. For anyone with an interest in urban ...
Stockholm: The Making of a Metropolis
1st Edition
By Thomas Hall
January 15, 2009
This is the first history of Stockholm’s development from the city’s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. While the city’s planners borrowed the ideas from abroad at certain periods, they provided the lead for the rest of the ...
New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures
1st Edition
By Emily Talen
August 24, 2005
New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies ...
Globalizing Taipei: The Political Economy of Spatial Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Reginald Kwok
June 16, 2005
Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this "Asian Dragon", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has received firm state support but ...
The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing
1st Edition
By Anne-Marie Broudehoux
July 06, 2004
Describes the changing life of the city and its inhabitants during the final decades of the twentieth century and examines the complex forces at play in the search for modernity. The author presents us with four case studies of how the city is marketing and selling itself (including its ...
Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000
1st Edition
By Jeffrey W. Cody
February 21, 2003
The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives. It continues today alongside the transfer of other aspects of American life and culture to most regions of the world. Jeffrey Cody explains how, why and where ...
Council Housing and Culture: The History of a Social Experiment
1st Edition
By Alison Ravetz
December 07, 2001
Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian online Born of idealism, and once an icon of the Labour movement and pillar of the Welfare State, council housing is now nearing its end. But do its many failings outweigh its positive contributions to public health and ...
Utopian England: Community Experiments 1900-1945
1st Edition
By Dennis Hardy
September 05, 2000
England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, ...
Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Freestone
August 30, 2000
Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an ...
Australian Metropolis: A Planning History
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Freestone, Stephen Hamnett
December 22, 1999
The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present...
Politics and Preservation: A policy history of the built heritage 1882-1996
1st Edition
By John Delafons, J. Delafons
January 07, 1999
This book traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process and both are set in their political context. Part One deals with the origins of conservation and its cultural background. Part Two deals with the post-war legislation and the increasing scope...
Selling Places: The Marketing and Promotion of Towns and Cities 1850-2000
1st Edition
By Stephen Ward
September 11, 1998
Selling Places explores the fascinating development of the place marketing and promotion over the last 150 years, drawing on examples from Northern America, Britain and continental Europe. The processes involved and the promotional imagery employed are meticulously presented and richly illustrated....