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Learning from the Japanese City: Looking East in Urban Design, 2nd Edition
By Barrie Shelton
To the first-time Western visitor the Japanese city often appears chaotic and baffling – even intimidating. In this new edition, Barrie Shelton develops his earlier interpretation of why Japanese cities look the way they do, contrasting Japanese and Western ways of thinking about space. Placing...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-55440-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Patrick Geddes and Town Planning: A Critical View
By Noah Hysler-Rubin
Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. Patrick Geddes and Planning - a Critical View 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. Relying on...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-57867-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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New Labour and Planning: From New Right to New Left
By Philip 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...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-59749-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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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,...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-55665-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric
By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan
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...
November 2010 | 978-0-415-48701-6 | Hardback (Routledge)
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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...
October 2010 | 978-0-415-56458-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 - 2016, 2nd Edition
Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
The first edition of Olympic Cities provided the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. This substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Three years on, its coverage takes account of important new...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-48658-3 | Paperback (Routledge)