Planning, History and Environment Series

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1. Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

   By Yasser Elsheshtawy

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   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...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Planning Asian Cities

   Risks and Resilience

   Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
3. Healthy City Planning

   From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity

   By Jason Corburn

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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