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Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity
Edited by Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley, Craig McLean
This commissioned collection of essays from a range of periods and genres seeks to examine the ways in which literature and architecture have shaped a range of recognisably ‘modern’ identities. It focuses specifically on the cultural connections between prose narratives and a range of urban...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-59151-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Urban Design: The Composition of Complexity
By Ron Kasprisin
For planning to be successful, design must mean more than simply blindly following the dictates of legislation and regulation – yet losing sight of the importance of the design process is all too often exactly what has happened. Ron Kasprisin has written a book for students of planning and...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-59147-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Understanding Cities: Methods in Urban Design
By Alexander Cuthbert
Thinking Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging. It creates the vital link between urban design theory and praxis and opens the required methodological gateway to a new and unified field of Urban Design. For too long urban design has been viewed as a satellite of architecture and...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-60824-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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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)
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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)