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Congratulations to the authors Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams, for winning the Publisher Award for The Temporary City at this years Urban Design Group Awards at the Royal Overseas League in London.
Hosted by Amanda Reynolds, the evening showcased some of the best examples of urban design work produced in the UK and beyond over the past 12 months.
Awards were presented in five categories by Janet Tibbalds on the behalf of the Francis Tibbalds Trust. The winners in the Practice, Public Sector and Student Award categories were selected by a vote of the Urban Design Group membership.
With so many great titles publishing during Feburary it is impossible to pick out one favorite so we have listed them all below.
For a full list of new and key backlist titles click here to go to the latest Planning and Urban Design catalog.
The Routledge Planning and Urban Design Catalog 2013 has published.
The Routledge Planning and Urban Design list continues to grow and we have an exciting year of publishing ahead of us with new student textbooks, cutting-edge academic research and books for professionals across the disciplines. In the pages that follow you’ll find some new editions of key established works, such as the fourth edition of Planning in the USA and the second edition of The Community Development Reader, as well as a host of brand new titles written by an ever expanding group of globaly renowned authors, such as Jeffrey Hou’s new book Transcultural Cities and Resilient Sustainable Cities by author team Peter Roberts, Peter Newton and Leonie Pearson.
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Read Planetizen interview here with Vinayak Bharne about his compelling new book, The Emerging Asian City
Planetizen managing editor Jonathan Nettler spoke recently with the book’s creator and editor Vinayak Bharne - joint adjunct faculty at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, and Director of Design at Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists - about the genesis of the book, what defines Asian cities, and how planners need to alter their practices to engage with them.
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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
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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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 program and deals particularly with methods to assess the probable effects of road construction in environmentally fragile territories.
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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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