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Healthy Cities in Europe
An assessment of the achievements and lessons learnt from the 'Healthy Cities' World Health Organization initiative launched in Europe fifteen years ago, now regarded as one of...January 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34002-1 (Routledge)
Urban Ethic
Design in the Contemporary City
Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban...
2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34864-5 (Routledge)
Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World
Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in...
2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25871-5 (Routledge)
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Urban Villages and the Making of Communities
Urban regeneration is currently at the forefront of the political and professional agenda worldwide. There is a growing desire to identify and deliver solutions that...2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-26273-6 (Taylor & Francis)
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The Cybercities Reader
Providing the most comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies, this informative book incorporates detailed discussions of cybercity...
2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27956-7 (Routledge)
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience
Encountering the City
For the first time Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual...
2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24592-0 (Routledge)
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The City Cultures Reader
Cities are both products of culture, and sites where culture is made and received. By presenting the very best of classic and contemporary writing on...2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30245-6 (Routledge)
World City Network
A Global Urban Analysis
With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices...
2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30249-4 (Routledge)
The City Reader
The third edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best of publications on the city. It has been extensively updated...2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-27173-8 (Routledge)
Public and Private Spaces of the City
The relationship between public and private spheres is one of the key concerns of the modern society. This book investigates this relationship, especially as manifested...2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25629-2 (Routledge)
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Sustainable Urban Design
An Environmental Approach
Bringing together theory and practice this important text provides a coherent overview of the important issues in sustainable urban design. The contributors, recognised experts from...
2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28123-2 (Taylor & Francis)
The Urban Lifeworld
Formation Perception Representation
Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what...2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23177-0 (Routledge)
The Chosen City
There is endless talk about the need for an urban renaissance; can it happen in the real world? In this broad, challenging and highly engaging...2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25802-9 (Taylor & Francis)
Making People-Friendly Towns
Improving the Public Environment in Towns and Cities
Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design,...2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23759-8 (Taylor & Francis)
Urban Future 21
A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities
Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in Berlin in July 2000. This book is an entirely new and comprehensive review of...2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24075-8 (Routledge)
City A-Z
Urban Fragments
Featuring a fantastic line up of contributors, The City A-Z introduces students to a refreshingly new way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban...2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-20728-7 (Routledge)
Towards an Urban Renaissance
The Urban Task Force, headed by Lord Rogers, one of the UK's leading architects, was established by the Department of Environment, Transport and Regions (DETR)...1999 | Paperback: 978-1-85112-165-6 (Routledge)
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