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Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate (October 2012)

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"We have our challenge laid out — Two Degrees provides a well-structured guide in which anyone who designs or builds in the built environment can find lasting value."—Ed Mazria, founder and CEO, Architecture 2030

This book now includes the feature to LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK. All you have to do is just click on the link to go to the book page on the website

Transcultural Cities (January 2013)

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In Transcultural Cities Jeffrey Hou and a cross-disciplinary team of authors argue for a more critical and open approach that sees today’s cities, urban places, and placemaking as vehicles for cross-cultural understanding.

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The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia (March 2013)

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This is the first book on IIRSA and its implications for South America and more specifically for Amazonia. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure programme and deals particularly with methods to assess the probable effects of road construction in environmentally fragile territories.

For more information about the book and to order your copy click here

Planning and Place in the City (December 2012)

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In Planning and Place in the City, Marichela Sepe explores the preservation, reconstruction and enhancement of cultural heritage and place identity. She outlines the history of the concept of placemaking, and sets out the range of different methods of analysis and assessment that are used to help pin down the nature of place identity. This book also uses the author's own survey-based method called PlaceMaker to detect elements that do not feature in traditional mapping and identifies appropriate planning interventions.

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RIBA Publishing titles now available from Routledge

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We are delighted to announce that RIBA Publishing books are now available via Routledge, for customers outside of the UK and Ireland.

RIBA Enterprises remains the exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.

RIBA Publishing is one of the leading providers of high quality information for architects, built environment professionals and students around the world and is therefore an ideal complement to our own Routledge Architecture, Construction, Planning and Landscape lists. For full details of this distribution deal click here

See below for some of the key, new and forthcoming titles from RIBA Publishing.

Transforming Urban Transport (November 2012)

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Drawing together leading scholars from different disciplines in Australia, Japan and China, this book provides a unique fusion of Asian and Australasian perspectives and engages with the coming needs of transport planning practitioners in both high density and dispersed cities. Complete with a companion website with a wealth of supporting material around the topic, this is essential read for all students and practitioners of transport planning. Companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/Low

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Housing and Society Series

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Series Editor: Ray Forrest, City University of Hong Kong and University of Bristol

This series aims to situate housing within its wider social, political and economic context at both national and international level. In doing so it will draw on the full range of social science disciplines and on mainstream debate on the nature of contemporary social change. The books are intended to appeal to an international academic audience as well as to practitioners and policymakers – to be theoretically informed and policy relevant.

For a full listing of books in the Housing and Society Series, click here

Best Tall Buildings 2012 (October 2012)

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Best Tall Buildings 2012 contains overviews of the nominees and winning projects from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s annual awards. The book provides vital statistics, images, plans and in depth accounts of the architectural design and sustainability features of the year’s best tall buildings. Additionally included is the official list of the World’s Tallest Buildings with the judging criteria from the foremost authority on tall buildings. Full colour illustrations and photographs throughout.

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Masterplanning Futures ( July 2012)

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Lucy Bullivant analyses the ideals and processes of international masterplans, and their role in the evolution of many different types of urban contexts in both the developed and developing world. This is a key book for those interested in today’s multiscalar masterplanning and conceptually advanced methodologies and principles being applied to meet the challenges and opportunities of the urbanizing world.

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In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist planning model zoned space for home and work. At a time of urban growth, these models are now being replaced by more adaptable, mixed use plans dealing holistically with the physical, social and economic revival of districts, cities and regions. Through today’s public participative approaches and using technologically enabled tools, contemporary masterplanning instruments embody fresh principles, giving cities a greater resilience and capacity for social integration and change in the future.

Lucy Bullivant analyses the ideals and processes of international masterplans, and their role in the evolution of many different types of urban contexts in both the developed and developing world. Among the book’s key themes are landscape-driven schemes, social equity through the reevaluation of spatial planning, and the evolution of strategies responding to a range of ecological issues and the demands of social growth.

Drawing on first-hand accounts and illustrated throughout with colour photographs, plans and visualizations, the book includes twenty essays introduced by an extensive overview of the field and its objectives. These investigate plans including one-north Singapore, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, Xochimilco in Mexico City and Waterfront Seattle, illuminating their distinct yet complementary integrated strategies. This is a key book for those interested in today’s multiscalar masterplanning and conceptually advanced methodologies and principles being applied to meet the challenges and opportunities of the urbanizing world.

The author's research was enabled by grants from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE), the SfA (the Netherlands Architecture Fund), the Danish Embassy and support from the Alfred Herrhausen Society.

Building Inclusive Cities (August 2012)

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Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women’s safety in the context of poverty reduction and social inclusion. Drawing upon two decades of research and grassroots action on safer cities for women and everyone, Building Inclusive Cities is about the right to an inclusive city.

October 2012 Newsletter Related Titles

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With so many great titles publishing this quarter it has been impossible to give them all the justice they deserve in our October Newsletter, so to be sure you don't miss out you can find them all below. Those of you who received our October update will have a discount code for 20% off when you buy online. If you are not already registered you can sign up for future newsletters here.

Celebrate the Olympics with Routledge

2012-09-03T14:10:00Q

What better way to get in the mood for the Olympics than to celebrate with Routledge.

For the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics we will be showcasing some of our new and key books and journals related to the Games.

Featured titles from Routledge

Disability in the Global Sport Arena

Ethics, Disability and Sports

Disability and Youth Sport

Disability, Sport and Society

News

Paralympics: Coaches in Wales behind disabled sport elite

By Natalie Grice - BBC news - 30 August 2012

For books on sport coaching click here

News

Authors of Dynamic Landscape are part of the design team for the Olympic 2012 Park Gardens

Professors James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett of the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield were appointed in 2008 as principal horticultural and planting design consultants for the Olympic Park, working with LDA/Hargreaves.

The 2012 gardens in the London Olympic Park are a spectacular celebration of contemporary horticulture and planting design, comprising half a mile of naturalistic perennial plantings. While the main focus in the Olympic Park as a whole is on native biodiversity and ecological approaches, the 2012 gardens explore the horticultural diversity of British gardens and take visitors on a tour of the biodiversity hotspots of the world that have been the major source of plants for UK gardeners over the past 600 years.

(extract taken from Nigel Dunnett's website - to read it in full click here)

Click here for more information about their bestselling book Dynamic Landscape,

News

London 2012 Olympics: A story of sustainable architecture
By Tierney Smith in Responding to Climate Change - 23rd July 2012

Routledge books in this area include ...

Sustainable Olympic Design and Urban Development - Adrian Pitts and Hanwen Liao
BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes on the London 2012 Olympic Park
Lessons from the Velodrome, Aquatics Centre and the Olympic and Paralympic Village - Neil Paterson, Adam Robinson and Robin Brylewski
Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings - Paul Appleby
New Directions in Sustainable Design - Edited by Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky
Sustainable Buildings in Practice - George Baird
The Green Studio Handbook 2nd Edition - Alison Kwok and Walter Grondzik

A full range of sustainable architecture and environment books can be found in the latest catalogues

A Bit of Fun ...

Time Lapse Videos on You Tube

Samsung sponsor London Olympics 2012 - watch these three time lapsed videos of the main stadiums being built. http://youtu.be/0PpLB4nB9N8

ITN - Watch a spectacular timelapse video of London's Olympic Velodrome being built. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1lFG3dL-0

Telegraphtv - Unveiled in Kew Gardens to mark 100 days to go until London 2012 gets underway, time-lapse and aerial footage shows how five giant Olympic ring flowerbeds took shape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AAB8hLjNoE

Related book

Stadia
The Populous Design and Development Guide - Geraint John, Rod Sheard, Ben Vickery

In this fully updated and redesigned edition of the essential and long-established Stadia, the authors offer their unrivalled expertise to all professionals who commission, plan, design, and manage high-quality sports venues.

Ideas about the design and use of stadiums continue to evolve and this fifth edition includes the latest developments in the field. Including updated chapters on sustainability and masterplanning, new chapters on temporary sports buildings and branding, and new global case studies, Stadia 5th edition is the ultimate guide to stadium design, from local club buildings to international showpieces.

Other Featured titles

Featured Title
Planning Olympic Legacies
Transport Dreams and Urban Realities
By Eva Kassens-Noor
When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban agendas
For more information about Planning Olympic Legacies click here

Other featured titles include:

Olympic Cities, John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
Understanding the Olympics, John Horne and Garry Whannel
The Olympics: The Basics, Andy Miah and Beatriz Garcia
Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Volume One: Making the Games, Vassil Girginov
International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System, Jean-Loup Chappelet and Brenda Kubler -Mabbott

Olympic Stadium is in the running for Stirling prize gold
London 2012 Games venue makes unexpected appearance on list of architectural prize nominees
By Vanessa Thorpe - The Observer, Sunday 22 July 2012

For more detail on the RIBA Stirling Prize click here

Stirling Prize winners and London architecture books from Routledge

BEST SELLER
Will Alsop : The Noise
Tom Porter

James Stirling
Early Unpublished Writings on Architecture
Edited by Mark Crinson

BEST SELLER
Short Stories: London in Two-and-a Half Dimensions
CJ Lim and Ed Liu

London’s Contemporary Architecture 5th Edition
Ken Allinson

Architects and Architecture of London
Ken Allinson

Featured Authors, Grotton Revisited

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Taking time out of their busy schedules Stephen Ankers, David Kaiserman and Chris Shepley answer some in depth questions about their new book Grotton Revisted ( published in conjunction with the RTPI)

Quotes

"Loved it , I almost had to be resuscitated" - Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, UK

"It is an extremely funny book, but close enough to the reality of planning practice to be unsettling. It will certainly make you laugh, but it will be a rather nervous sort of laughter." – Australian Planner

1. What would be the key piece of advice you would give to someone who has just qualified as a planner?

CS: Don't bother to learn the rules. They'll change in a minute.

DK: The problem with planners is they can always see the other person's point of view. The problem with other people is that they can't.

SA: Think very carefully. Should you consider retraining?

2. What was the main change you noticed when you revisited Grotton?

CS: The publication of that Draft Action Area Plan for Lower Upton on t' Bogg has REALLY made a difference.

SA: I see they've banned that right turn at the bottom of Sludge Street. And none too soon, if you ask me.

DK: The Co-op now seems to sell something called "focaccia". Is it a floor cleaner?

3. What has been the greatest achievement of Grotton County Council in the last 31 years?

SA: The speed, robustness and flexibility of the "No comments" response to the Secretary of State's proposed changes to to the Regional Spatial Strategy.

CS: Staying alive.

DK: To avoid being run by a Tory Lib-Dem coalition.

4. Who has inspired you and why?

DK: Mrs Satterthwaite, my late form teacher at junior school. "Leave Melanie alone" she used to say. Wise words indeed, given where Melanie ended up. Do you want me to go on?

CS: Professor Audrey Grumpie of the Polytechnic of Central Grotton, all of whose lectures I missed.

SA: Lady Gaga, for her holistic and existential approach to the reorientation of resource prioritisation and modal shift. That, and the nice frocks.

5. Tell us one unknown fact about yourself

DK: I'm a recovering stamp collector. Honestly.

SA: I sat next to Ryan Sidebottom at an outdoor fish fry in Barbados during the World Twenty20 Cricket. I believe he still talks about it.

CS: I once represented Essex at lacrosse.

Capital Spaces ( August 2012)

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Has the market really become the sole factor that influences the treatment of public space? Have the financial and personal interests of the few really come to dominate those of the many?

To answer these questions Matthew Carmona and Filipa Wunderlich have carried out a detailed investigation of the modern public spaces of London, that most global of cities. For more information about the book click here

15 Best Selling Books from Routledge Planning

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The top 15 best selling Planning books published by Routledge. For more comprehensive list of what books are availble in this area see our catalogues