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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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The Making of Olympic Cities
Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
In the first forty or so years following its revival at the end of the nineteenth century, the burdens placed on cities hosting a modern Olympic Games were relatively modest. However, as the Games have grown in size and stature, morphing from a small-scale summer festival into an intensively...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-55351-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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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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The EcoEdge: Urgent Design Challenges in Building Sustainable Cities
By Esther Charlesworth, Rob Adams
Presenting diverse case studies of contemporary sustainable urban practice from Europe, Africa, India, South America, the USA and Australia, this book offers the reader a fantastic wealth of practical material from a range of internationally renowned authors. Each practical case study has...
February 2011 | 978-0-415-57248-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Short Stories: London in Two-and-a-half Dimensions
By CJ Lim, Ed Liu
Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of 12 sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take familiar places, institutions, life styles and landmarks in the British capital and render them fantastic. The medium is an intersection of paper assemblages with short stories....
January 2011 | 978-0-415-57358-0 | 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...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-58803-4 | Hardback (Routledge)