Planning and Urban Design

Shaping the City

Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design, 2nd Edition

Edited by RODOLPHE EL-KHOURY, EDWARD ROBBINS

Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles,...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Patrick Geddes and Town Planning

A Critical View

By Noah Hysler-Rubin

Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This book studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing a new reading of his life, writing and plans. Geddes' scrutiny is presented as a case study for...

Published January 11th 2011 by Routledge

Urban and Regional Planning

By Peter Hall, Mark Tewdwr-Jones

This is the fifth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives an historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entire twentieth century. This extensively revised edition follows the successful format...

Published November 15th 2010 by Routledge

Urban Coding and Planning

Edited by Stephen Marshall

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly...

Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge

City and Soul in Divided Societies

By Scott Bollens

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on seventeen...

Published September 5th 2011 by Routledge

Planning the Megacity

Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

By Christopher Silver

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Planning the Megacity examines the dramatic transformation of Jakarta over the past century. In 1900, the colonial capital of the Netherland Indies, then known as Batavia, was a compact city of approximately 150,000 inhabitants. During the next hundred years, but especially after 1950, it was...

Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge

Staging the New Berlin

Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

By Claire Colomb

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘...

Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge

Planning Asian Cities

Risks and Resilience

Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve...

Published June 19th 2011 by Routledge

The Evolving Arab City

Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

"This outstanding collection, written by sophisticated and engaged Arab architects/urbanists, is a stunning sequel to Planning Middle Eastern Cities (2004) Like its predecessor, it does three things: effectively demolishes the monopoly ‘orientalists’ had over the topic; integrates grounded Arab...

Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge

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

Orienting Istanbul

Cultural Capital of Europe?

Edited by Deniz Göktürk, Levent Soysal, Ipek Tureli

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an editorial introduction, this book is an interdisciplinary study of an...

Published June 24th 2010 by Routledge

Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction

Case Studies from Lebanon in the Aftermath of the 2006 War

Edited by Howayda Al-Harithy

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

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 . Here, a series of case studies documenting the work of the Unit...

Published February 25th 2010 by Routledge

Olympic Cities

City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2016, 2nd Edition

Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Providing a full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events, this substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Its coverage takes account of important new scholarship as well as adding reflections on the experience of...

Published September 5th 2010 by Routledge

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires

Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe

Edited by Emily Gunzburger Makas, Tanja Damljanovic Conley

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

This is the first book to explore the urban and planning history of cities across Central and South-eastern Europe against a background of rising nationalism. Introductory chapters outline the political history of the area, how the developments in the different countries were interconnected and how...

Published November 26th 2009 by Routledge

Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

By Yasser Elsheshtawy

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development. With...

Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge

Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events

Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America

By Clara Irazábal

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires...

Published January 23rd 2008 by Routledge

Planning Europe's Capital Cities

Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Urban Development

By Thomas Hall

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes - from Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of Paris.Thomas Hall examines the planning process in fifteen of those cities and addresses the following questions: when and why...

Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge

Planning Middle Eastern Cities

An Urban Kaleidoscope

Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Cairo, Baghdad, Algiers and Dubai cannot be easily lumped together as a single group. Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid, ranging from those rich in tradition, to 'forgotten’ cities, to newly emerging Gulf cities.The authors here, Arab scholars and architects local to the...

Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge

Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities

Edited by David Gordon

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide. This book explores what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one city to another. For anyone with an interest in urban...

Published October 14th 2009 by Routledge

Stockholm

The Making of a Metropolis

By Thomas Hall

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

This is the first history of Stockholm’s development from the city’s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. While the city’s planners borrowed the ideas from abroad at certain periods, they provided the lead for the rest of the...

Published December 1st 2008 by Routledge

New Labour and Planning

From New Right to New Left

By Phil Allmendinger

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour’s view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the Government began to appreciate that many of its...

Published January 11th 2011 by Routledge

Remaking Chinese Urban Form

Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005

By Duanfang Lu

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival documents, professional journals and her own fieldwork, she explores hitherto...

Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge

The Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London, 10-15 October 1910

Series: Studies in International Planning History

In October 1910 the Royal Institute of British Architects hosted the first ever international conference on Town Planning. The Transactions of this critical event in the development of planning as a profession and as a discipline were published a year later in 1911. Long out of print and very...

Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge

Leadership and Change in Sustainable Regional Development

Edited by Markku Sotarauta, Lummina Horlings, Joyce Liddle

Series: Regions and Cities

This book shows, first of all, that leadership plays a crucial role in reinventing regions and branching out from an old path to something new in order to create more balanced and sustainable regional development. Second, it maintains that leadership is not a solo but a multi-agent and -level...

Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Third World Modernism

Architecture, Development and Identity

Edited by Duanfang Lu

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War. The topics look at modernism’s part in the transnational development of building technologies and the construction of national and...

Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge