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1. Learning from the Japanese City

   Looking East in Urban Design, 2nd Edition

   By Barrie Shelton

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s written language is recognized as one of...

   Published March 27th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Making of Hong Kong

   From Vertical to Volumetric

   By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge