Sustainable Urban Development Volume 4

Changing Professional Practice

Edited by Ian Cooper, Martin Symes

This new volume explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43822-3 (Routledge)

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Cities Design and Evolution

By Stephen Marshall

Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that are less attractive and functional than the ‘organic urbanism’ of traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42329-8 (Routledge)

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World Cities and Urban Form

Fragmented, Polycentric, Sustainable?

Edited by Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak, Pattaranan Takkanon

This book presents new research and theory at the regional scale showing the forms metropolitan regions might take to achieve sustainability. At the city scale...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45186-4 (Routledge)

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Public Space

The Management Dimension

Edited by Matthew Carmona, Claudio d. Magalhães, Leo Hammond

In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the quality...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39649-3 (Routledge)

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Writing Urbanism

A design reader

Edited by Douglas Kelbaugh, Kit McCullough

Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.

This welcome new reader, distinguished by its...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77439-0 (Routledge)

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Heterotopia and the City

Public Space in a Postcivil Society

Edited by Michiel Dehaene, Lieven De Cauter

Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other place’, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42288-8 (Routledge)

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Imperial Legacies and Postcolonial Predicament

Edited by Fassil Demissie

The book focuses on contemporary African cities, caught in the contradiction of an imperial past and postcolonial present. The essays explore the cultural role of...

January 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45448-3 (Routledge)

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Planning for Place and Plexus

Metropolitan Land Use and Transport

By David M. Levinson, Kevin J. Krizek

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77491-8 (Routledge)

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Framing Places

Mediating Power in Built Form

By Kim Dovey

Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41635-1 (Routledge)

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Doorway

By Simon Unwin

Though we may take them for granted, doorways impinge on our lives in many ways. Their powers are even richer and more varied than those...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45881-8 (Routledge)

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