Built Environment Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. The Futures of the City Region

   Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Urban Regeneration

   Property investment and development

   Edited by J.N. Berry, N.G. Deddis, W.S. McGreal

   This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process. It relates the physical, economic, financial and environmental aspects of urban change and development to the realities of particular cities by case studies drawn from...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Taylor & Francis
4. Biographies & Space

   Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

   Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

   Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographical methods of historical...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. The City Rehearsed

   Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

   By Christopher Heuer

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Barriers to Sustainable Transport

   Institutions, Regulation and Sustainability

   Edited by Piet Rietveld, Roger R. Stough

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   The complexity of transportation systems and their negative social and environmental effects are today at the centre of attention. This book focuses on the impact of institutions and regulatory systems on transport systems and travel behaviour. While institutions appear to play an important...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Planning for Retail Development

   A Critical View of the British Experience

   By Clifford Guy

   Written by a leading expert in the field, this is the first thorough critical review of retail planning policy in Britain (including Scotland and Wales). It covers recent changes in government policy and guidance, and examines retail policy within a broader economic and social context. Planning for...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Social Theory and the Urban Question

   By Peter Saunders

   Social Theory and the Urban Question offers a guide to, and a critical evaluation of key themes in contemporary urban social theory, as well as a re-examination of more traditional approaches in the light of recent developments and criticism. Dr Saunders discusses current theoretical positions in...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Nature's Spectacle

   The World's First National Parks and Protected Places

   By John Sheail

   National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. ...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. Medieval London

    By Gwyn A. Williams

    This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation. The period covered is the...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge