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Planning, History and Environment Series


About the Series

This series offers a unique window on the creation of the modern environment. Designed for an international readership, the emphasis is on:

  • urban and regional planning
  • recent as well as longer-term history
  • what the past can tell us about the present
  • local as well as global and comparative topics

Within this framework the books address three themes:

  • regional, continental and comparative studies
  • planning histories of key cities
  • changing planning ideologies and policies

 

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Planning Abu Dhabi An Urban History

Planning Abu Dhabi: An Urban History

1st Edition

By Alamira Reem Bani Hashim
October 25, 2018

Abu Dhabi’s urban development path contrasts sharply with its exuberant neighbour, Dubai. As Alamira Reem puts it, Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates since 1971, ‘has been quietly devising its own plans … to manifest its role and stature as a capital city’. Alamira Reem, a native Abu ...

Trajectories of Conflict and Peace Jerusalem and Belfast Since 1994

Trajectories of Conflict and Peace: Jerusalem and Belfast Since 1994

1st Edition

By Scott A Bollens
January 08, 2018

Creating peace for a city’s intimate enemies is harder than making war. This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 – how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating stasis and...

Globalizing Seoul The City's Cultural and Urban Change

Globalizing Seoul: The City's Cultural and Urban Change

1st Edition

By Jieheerah Yun
February 06, 2017

In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more evident than in the country’s capital, Seoul, where urban development has been central to making the city a global hub and not just the centre of the national economy. ...

Homeland Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011

Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860–2011

1st Edition

By Yael Allweil
September 08, 2016

On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal, Realty Today reported ‘Israel is facing a housing crisis with …[the] home inventory lacking 100,000 apartments… House prices, which have more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest back in 2011’. As Yael Allweil reveals in...

Remaking the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature

Remaking the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge: A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature

1st Edition

By Karen Trapenberg Frick
July 27, 2016

On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of ...

Olympic Cities City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2020

Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2020

3rd Edition

Edited By John Gold, Margaret M Gold
July 18, 2016

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and enlarged third edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides ...

Changing Suburbs Foundation, Form and Function

Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function

1st Edition

Edited By Richard Harris, Peter Larkham
June 22, 2016

The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location.Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, ...

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow? A New Future for the Cottage Estates

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?: A New Future for the Cottage Estates

1st Edition

By Martin Crookston
April 07, 2016

Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six decades of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a new and optimistic form of housing – the...

Great British Plans Who made them and how they worked

Great British Plans: Who made them and how they worked

1st Edition

By Ian Wray
October 02, 2015

Can the British plan? Sometimes it seems unlikely. Across the world we see grand designs and visionary projects: new airport terminals, nuclear power stations, high-speed railways, and glittering buildings. It all seems an unattainable goal on Britain’s small and crowded island; and yet perhaps ...

Planning by Consent The Origins and Nature of British Development Control

Planning by Consent: The Origins and Nature of British Development Control

1st Edition

By Philip Booth
March 31, 2015

**Please note this is an unedited paperback reprint of the hardback, originally published in 2003** The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997. Remarkably, the system has survived more or less intact but the experience of the 1980s has left large ...

Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America

Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events: Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America

1st Edition

By Clara Irazábal
February 24, 2015

This book reveals the recent urban history of nine major Latin American cities – Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotá, São Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires – through studies of their public spaces and the events that have taken place there. The case studies provide an ...

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Emily Gunzburger Makas, Tanja Damljanovic Conley
February 12, 2015

This book explores the planning and architectural histories of the cities across Central and Southeastern Europe transformed into the cultural and political capitals of the new nationstates created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In their introduction, editors Makaš and Conley...

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