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Planning, History and Environment Series

Series Editor: Ann Rudkin

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

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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
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

Edited by Sonia Hirt, Diane Zahm

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

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...

Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
Learning from the Japanese City

Looking East in Urban Design, 2nd Edition

By Barrie Shelton

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

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...

Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
Staging the New Berlin

Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

By Claire Colomb

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

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 ‘...

Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
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
The Place of Home

English domestic environments, 1914-2000

By Alison Ravetz, Professor Alison Ravetz, R. Turkington

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

**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...

Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
From Garden Cities to New Towns

Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946

By Dennis Hardy

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

**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...

Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
From New Towns to Green Politics

Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1946-1990

By Dennis Hardy

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

**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...

Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries

By Thomas Hall

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

**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...

Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge
The Garden City

Past, present and future

Edited by Stephen Ward

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

** 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...

Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge