Bøger i Planning, History and Environment Series serien

A history of the 20th-century English home, how it has been created and how it works for people. This text focuses on the various influences bearing on the development of domestic space since 1914 and covers both design and housing policy.

Surveying four approaches to city-making, the author here gives an assessment of the development of American urbanism, highlighting recurrent themes and how these interact, merge and conflict.

This book is about one episode in the perennial search for perfection, but what is revealed has lessons that extend well beyond a particular time and place.

This highly illustrated book describes how places have been 'sold' or promoted to make themselves attractive locations as holiday resorts, business centres or residential areas. Examines the history of current practice, using worldwide examples.

Explores the urban history of some of Latin America's cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.

Shows how Jakarta was transformed from a colonial capital into a megacity of well over 10 million inhabitants. This book places the city's planning history within local, national and international contexts. It describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia.

Explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage, using historical narratives, novels and fictional accounts by local writers. This book also explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai's urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network.

Council Housing and Culture makes clear the importance of council housing to twentieth-century life and culture. A major thread through the work is the interaction of council housing with evolving working-class patterns and aspirations.

This text traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process, both are set in their political context.

Exploring the urban and planning history of cities across Central and South-eastern Europe against a background of rising nationalism, this book contains fourteen studies of individual cities. Introductory chapters in the book outline the political history of the area and how the developments in the different countries were interconnected.

This authoritative and detailed review chronicles the events leading up to the regional plan of New York, 1929 and assesses its significance and influence on subsequent developments of New York.

A book devoted to town planner Professor Sir Peter Hall¿s breadth of academic work, covering the history of cities and planning, London, spatial planning, connectivity and mobility, and urban globalization.

This text provides a single volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for anyone interested in the broad evolutionary sweep of modern planning.

Anne-Marie Broudehoux explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the 20th century. She shows how state aspirations, market appetites, global expectations and popular ambitions are articulated in the creation of Beijing's new world image.

Sets out to explore what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one city to another. This book is intended for those with an interest in urban planning and design, architectural, planning and urban history, urban geography, or capital cities and why they are what they are.

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs¿s legacy. Together, the editors and contributors highlight the notion that Jacobs¿s influence goes beyond planning to philosophy, economics, sociology and design. They set out to answer such questions as: What explains Jacobs¿s lasting appeal and is it justified? Where was she right and where was she wrong? What were the most important themes she addressed? And, although Jacobs was best known for her work on cities, is it correct to say that she was a much broader thinker, a philosopher, and that the key to her lasting legacy is precisely her exceptional breadth of thought?

This book examines the evolution and development pattern of Taipei against a background of increasing globalization, each contributor considering from a different perspective the historical and current trends at work in this key Asian Dragon city.

One of the most significant recent innovations in urban planning, born of New Urbanism, is the revival or reinvention of the practice of coding. This book investigates the nature and contribution of urban coding, and its merits and demerits which are distinct from, but often bound up with, the merits and demerits of conventional town planning.

One of the most significant recent innovations in urban planning, born of New Urbanism, is the revival or reinvention of the practice of coding. This book investigates the nature and contribution of urban coding, and its merits and demerits which are distinct from, but often bound up with, the merits and demerits of conventional town planning.

In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the post-colonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture,

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process and in rebuilding the lives of those affected by the 2006 war in Lebanon. This book discusses the lessons to be learned from the experiences of Lebanon after the July War.

Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an unprecedented critical survey of the state of urban planning at the end of the millennium.

Presents an interdisciplinary study of Istanbul, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century.

Offers an interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures in its search for a place in Europe and on the world stage in the twenty-first century.