Bücher der Reihe Planning, History and Environment Series

This text provides a single volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for anyone interested in the broad evolutionary sweep of modern planning.

Stephen Hamnett and Belinda Yuen have brought together a set of chapters on Singapore's planning achievements, aspirations and challenges, which are united in their focus on what might happen next in the planning of the island-state.

This authoritative and detailed review chronicles the events leading up to the regional plan of New York, 1929 and assesses its significance and influence on subsequent developments of New York.

This book traces the history of the development control system in Britain from early modern times to the present day.

Twentieth-Century Suburbs describes the way in which suburbs were created in the 1920s and 1930s, particularly in England, the physical forms they took, and the ways they have changed over time in response to social, economic and cultural

One of the most significant recent innovations in urban planning, born of New Urbanism, is the revival or reinvention of the practice of coding. This book investigates the nature and contribution of urban coding, and its merits and demerits which are distinct from, but often bound up with, the merits and demerits of conventional town planning.

One of the most significant recent innovations in urban planning, born of New Urbanism, is the revival or reinvention of the practice of coding. This book investigates the nature and contribution of urban coding, and its merits and demerits which are distinct from, but often bound up with, the merits and demerits of conventional town planning.

Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid to be lumped together as a single, arbitrary group. This title includes six case-study cities that support that contention.

Describes the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period. This book demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s.

Surveying four approaches to city-making, the author here gives an assessment of the development of American urbanism, highlighting recurrent themes and how these interact, merge and conflict.

A study of planning in 15 major European cities. It includes case studies of development schemes for each city, and general discussion of capital together with city planning.

This book is about one episode in the perennial search for perfection, but what is revealed has lessons that extend well beyond a particular time and place.

This highly illustrated book describes how places have been 'sold' or promoted to make themselves attractive locations as holiday resorts, business centres or residential areas. Examines the history of current practice, using worldwide examples.

Shows how Jakarta was transformed from a colonial capital into a megacity of well over 10 million inhabitants. This book places the city's planning history within local, national and international contexts. It describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia.

Explores the urban history of some of Latin America's cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.

A multidisciplinary team of specialists list historical and contemporary research on suburbanization with particular emphasis on the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.

Council Housing and Culture makes clear the importance of council housing to twentieth-century life and culture. A major thread through the work is the interaction of council housing with evolving working-class patterns and aspirations.

This text traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process, both are set in their political context.

Has globalization replaced colonization as a threat to the heritage and identity of the Middle East City of the 21st century? How did colonial influences change the urban form of the Arab capitals? Is hybridization of architectural and urban discourse affecting the development of cities? These questions, and more, are addressed in this text.

Examines the plans for sixteen important capital cities around the world.

Provides a critical overview of rural change over the 80 years since the outbreak of World War I, illuminating the historical origins of present-day policy. It should be of interest to specialists in rural development, rural planning, environmental studies, conservation or recreation.