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Planning, History and Environment Series
New & Published Titles:
Orienting Istanbul
Cultural Capital of Europe?
Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.
Divided…
read moreJuly 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58011-3 (Routledge)
Lessons in Post-War Reconstruction
Case Studies from Lebanon in the Aftermath of the 2006 War
After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-57105-0 (Routledge)
Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires
Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe
This is the first book to explore the urban and planning history of cities across Central and South-eastern Europe against a background of rising nationalism.…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45943-3 (Routledge)
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Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950
In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55308-7 (Routledge)
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Planning Middle Eastern Cities
An Urban Kaleidoscope
Cairo, Baghdad, Algiers and Dubai cannot be easily lumped together as a single group. Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid, ranging…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55309-4 (Routledge)
Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities
The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide. This book explores what makes capital cities different from other cities,…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55734-4 (Routledge)
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Planning Europe's Capital Cities
Aspects of nineteenth-century urban development
During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes - from Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of… read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55249-3 (Routledge)
Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle
Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44461-3 (Routledge)
Stockholm
The Making of a Metropolis
This is the first history of Stockholm’s development from the city’s unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends of today. While the…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-33999-5 (Routledge)
The Evolving Arab City
Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development
Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41156-1 (Routledge)
Series Details:
The Planning, History and Environment series provides planners and architects, social scientists and historians worldwide with unique access to the origins and development of city and regional planning, urban design and conservation. The books in this series provide researchers, students and professionals with a superb information resource and a stimulating context for debate.
This series offers a unique window on the creation of the modern environment. Designed for an international readership, the emphasis is on:
- urban and regional planning
- recent as well as longer-term history
- what the past can tell us about the present
- local as well as global and comparative topics.
The books address three themes:
- regional, continental and comparative studies
- planning histories of key cities
- changing planning ideologies and policies.
20% discount for International Planning History Society members and affiliated scholarly socieites
Forthcoming Titles:
Festival Cities: Culture, Planning and Urban Life since 1945
By John R. Gold, Margaret Gold
To be published July 1st 2011
Cities Between Continents: A Mediterranean Odyssey
By Dennis Hardy
To be published May 1st 2011
Learning from the Japanese City: Looking East in Urban Design, 2nd Edition
By Barrie Shelton
To be published April 1st 2011
Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience
Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes
To be published March 1st 2011
Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention post-1989
By Claire Colomb
To be published February 1st 2011
Urban Coding and Planning
Edited by Stephen Marshall
To be published January 1st 2011
The Making of Hong Kong: From Vertical to Volumetric
By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan
To be published November 10th 2010
Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 to 2016, 2nd Edition
Edited by John R. Gold, Margaret M. Gold
To be published September 6th 2010