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Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries
Av Thomas Hall
Häftad, 2011
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776 kr
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**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 …
Planning Europe's Capital Cities
Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Urban Development
Av Thomas Hall
Häftad, 2009
746 kr
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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 did …
Festival Cities
Culture, Planning and Urban Life
Av John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
Inbunden, 2020
1837 kr
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Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges …
Supergrid and Superblock
Lessons in Urban Structure from China and Japan
Av Xiaofei Chen
Inbunden, 2022
1570 kr
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In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure. The book opens with an introductory essay by Barrie Shelton in which he sets the scene for what is to follow, emphasizing …
Riyadh
Transforming a Desert City
Inbunden, 2021
1524 kr
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Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive evidenced in the proliferation of proposals for high-end districts, giga-developments and elaborate infrastructures. An urban vision seemingly dedicated …
Planning Metropolitan Australia
Av Stephen Hamnett, Robert Freestone
Häftad, 2020
713 kr
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Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great majority of Australians live in a small number of large metropolitan areas focused on the state capital cities. The development and application of …
Being Urban
Community, Conflict and Belonging in the Middle East
Häftad, 2023
649 kr
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In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his introduction, ‘What is a good city?’, five questions motivate the book:How can a city be systematically planned …
Planning Abu Dhabi
An Urban History
Häftad, 2020
743 kr
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Abu Dhabi’s urban development path contrasts sharply with its exuberant neighbour, Dubai. As Alamira Reem puts it, Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates since 1971, ‘has been quietly devising its own plans … to manifest its role and stature as a capital city’. Alamira Reem, a native Abu …
Being Urban
Community, Conflict and Belonging in the Middle East
Inbunden, 2020
1524 kr
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In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his introduction, ‘What is a good city?’, five questions motivate the book:How can a city be systematically planned …
Council Housing and Culture
The History of a Social Experiment
Inbunden, 2001
2750 kr
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Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian onlineBorn 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 …
Council Housing and Culture
The History of a Social Experiment
Häftad, 2001
853 kr
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Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian onlineBorn 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 …
Twentieth-Century Suburbs
A Morphological Approach
Av C.M.H Carr, J.W.R Whitehand
Inbunden, 2001
2137 kr
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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 process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages.This book describes the ways …
Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities
Av David Gordon
Inbunden, 2006
3071 kr
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The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide – in 1900 there were only about forty, but by 2000 there were more than two hundred. And this, surely, is reason enough for a book devoted to the planning and development of capital cities in the …
Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000
Häftad, 2002
879 kr
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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 …
Planning Middle Eastern Cities
An Urban Kaleidoscope
Inbunden, 2004
2517 kr
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Middle Eastern cities cannot be lumped together as a single group. Rather they make up the urban kaleidoscope of the title, as the diversity of the six cities included here shows. They range from cities rich in tradition (Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad), to neglected cities (Algiers and Sana'a), to …
Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing
Inbunden, 2004
2517 kr
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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 …
Stockholm
The Making of a Metropolis
Av Thomas Hall
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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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 …
Remaking Chinese Urban Form
Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005
Av Duanfang Lu
Inbunden, 2006
3082 kr
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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. She shows that as China’s quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social reality and a …
Globalizing Taipei
The Political Economy of Spatial Development
Inbunden, 2005
2525 kr
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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 …
Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events
Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America
Inbunden, 2008
2600 kr
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Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires …
Evolving Arab City
Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development
Inbunden, 2008
3864 kr
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Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation. This collection reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the newer oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in …
Urban Coding and Planning
Inbunden, 2011
3173 kr
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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 …
Urban Coding and Planning
Häftad, 2011
882 kr
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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 …
Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle
Inbunden, 2009
3173 kr
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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 the …
Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires
Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe
Av Emily Gunzburger Makas, Tanja Damljanovic Conley
Inbunden, 2009
2600 kr
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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 …
Festival Cities
Culture, Planning and Urban Life
Av John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
Häftad, 2020
622 kr
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Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges …
Planning Imagination
Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning
Av Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Nicholas Phelps m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
3173 kr
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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. …
Planning Imagination
Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning
Av Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Nicholas Phelps m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
942 kr
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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. …
From Garden Cities to New Towns
Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946
Av Dennis Hardy
Häftad, 2011
754 kr
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**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 finally it …
From New Towns to Green Politics
Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1946-1990
Av Dennis Hardy
Häftad, 2011
776 kr
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**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 …
