Bøger i Planning, History and Environment Series serien

Examines the plans for sixteen important capital cities around the world.

Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid to be lumped together as a single, arbitrary group. This title includes six case-study cities that support that contention.

Describes the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period. This book demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s.

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. It includes chapters that outline the political history of the area and how the developments in the different countries were interconnected.

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.

The cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities. This title reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order.

For much of the mid-twentieth century Stockholm was the model for Europe and elsewhere. This book presents the history of Stockholm's development from the city's unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends.

Provides a critical overview of rural change over the 80 years since the outbreak of World War I, illuminating the historical origins of present-day policy. It should be of interest to specialists in rural development, rural planning, environmental studies, conservation or recreation.

A multidisciplinary team of specialists list historical and contemporary research on suburbanization with particular emphasis on the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.

Has globalization replaced colonization as a threat to the heritage and identity of the Middle East City of the 21st century? How did colonial influences change the urban form of the Arab capitals? Is hybridization of architectural and urban discourse affecting the development of cities? These questions, and more, are addressed in this text.