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1. Of Planting and Planning

   The making of British colonial cities, 2nd Edition

   By Robert Home

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   ‘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...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Of Planting and Planning

   The making of British colonial cities

   By Robert K Home

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   The transfer by the British of colonial town planning to the colonies, and the influence such shifts have had on world urbanization, are examined in this thoughtful study. Regulatory tools for planning controls and other management approaches are examined in the light of rapid urban growth in many...

   Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
3. Inner City Regeneration

   By Robert K. Home

   This book covers all the main aspects of government policy and practice in British inner city regeneration. Chapters deal with the development of policy, agencies for regeneration, housing, social issues. The UK edxperience is compared with that of other countries, particularly the USA, and past...

   Published December 5th 2010 by Routledge
4. Demystifying the Mystery of Capital

   Land Tenure & Poverty in Africa and the Caribbean

   Edited by Robert Home, Hilary Lim

   This is an original empirical and theoretical study of the use of law to secure land tenure in the face of poverty, urban and peri-urban growth and changing social structures....

   Published June 21st 2004 by Routledge-Cavendish