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Browse all of the latest news and updates from Routledge Planning & Urban Design. We regularly publish helpful information and news within the area of Planning & Urban Design to celebrate our publishing program and the individuals that make it possible.
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.
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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.
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)
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"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
Congratulations to Florian Urban.
Tower and Slab has won the annual International Planning History Book Prize "for the most innovative book in planning history written in English and based on new research".
Congratulations to Jeffery Hou, author of Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities winner of the 2012 Place Book Award from EDRA
For more inforamtion about the award click here
The Temporary City has received another very positive review on internet blog, The Pop-Up City, who describe Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams' new book as "a decent and thorough-full document that combines inspiring examples with interesting academic reflections."
On Wednesday 15th February 2012, Routledge attended the Urban Design Group (UDG) Awards in London, held at the prestigious 61 Whitehall in London. Routledge were very proud to be one of the sponsers for this event, with awards presented for Best Student, Best Public Sector Project, Best Publisher, Best Practice and Lifetime Achievement. We are delighted to announce that Responsive Environments was awarded this year's Lifetime Achievement Award, presented by the Chair of the Urban Design Group, Amanda Reynolds, and our congratulations go to the authors, Alan Alcock, Paul Murrain, Sue McGlynn and Graham Smith, and editor Ian Bently.
Leonardo Vazquez, one of the editors of the upcoming book "Diálogos", was recently chosen as the winner of the American Planning Association's 2012 National Planning Leadership Award for Advancing Diversity and Social Change in Honor of Paul Davidoff. For a link to all the award winners and more info please follow this link >>> http://bit.ly/zD4MtM
Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking was featured in Los Angeles Magazine last month, in an article entitled "Between the Lines", in which Shoup raises his arguments against free parking and his proposals for new ways that cities could regulate parking. Read more >>>
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