City & Town Planning Books

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1. Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention post-1989

   By Claire Colomb

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-59403-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks

   Edited by Carola Hein

   Ports have been and continue to be critical in not just the global movement of goods, but also the global movement of ideas, social change and cultural phenomena including architecture and urban form. The connected points of a multi-faceted network, ports profoundly affect both each other and the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-78043-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. The Futures of the City Region

   Edited by Angela Hull, Michael Neuman

   The focus of this book is whether and how the 'city region' constitutes a new departure in urbanisation and, if so, what are the key elements of that difference. The realities of the urban are complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations both...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-58803-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Livable Streets

   By Donald Appleyard, Bruce Appleyard

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-61064-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Good City: Reflections and Imaginations

   By Allan Jacobs

   Cities, Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s collective...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-59353-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Space! Place! Life!: Learning from Place

   Edited by Brian Evans, Frank McDonald

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61400-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Urban Identity: Learning from Place

   Edited by Brian Evans, Frank McDonald, David Rudlin

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-61403-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. City Reader

   Edited by Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout

   The fifth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new selections by Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry,...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-55665-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

   Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castan-Broto, Mike Hodson, SIMON MARVIN

   Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-58697-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Jiang Xu, Anthony Yeh

    Neoliberalism’s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political...

    August 2010 | 978-0-415-56089-4 | Hardback (Routledge)