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Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
Daniel E. Williams
(2007)
Hardcover - 304 pages
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471709530
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this book, Daniel Williams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope, "Sustainable Design" answers key questions such as: How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically? What is the difference between 'green design' and 'sustainable design'? What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost? Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects' and urban planners' work. Williams' book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.
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Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces
Anne Power; John Houghton
(2007)
Paperback - 280 pages
Policy Press
ISBN: 1861346581
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This new book explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal. How did our major cities become so divided? How do they respond to housing and neighbourhood decay? "Jigsaw City" examines these issues using Birmingham, Britain's second largest city and pioneer of the modern urban order, as our strongest model of the drive to create public solutions to private squalor is in three parts. Through looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, the authors explore: the origins of Britain's acute urban decline; the idea that "one size doesn't fit all"; the continuing urban flight that traps the poor and pays the rich to move out. The book will attract policymakers in cities and government; it will help students of social science, regeneration bodies, community organisations and environmental specialists. The style of the book with its live examples and hands-on experience is extremely accessible in spite of its strong historic background. Its unique 'insider' perspective on policy making and practical impacts offer a useful and unusual perspective.
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Estates: An Intimate History
Lynsey Hanley
(2007)
Paperback - 256 pages
Granta Books
ISBN: 1862079099
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink and violence - the social ills they were built to cure. How did homes built to improve people's lives end up doing the opposite? Is their reputation fair, and if so who is to blame? Inhabitants? Politicians? Planners? Architects? Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in mid-century and its decline - as both idea and reality - in the 1960s and 70s. Throughout, Hanley focuses on how shifting trends in urban planning and changing government policies - from 'Homes Fit for Heroes' to Le Corbusier's concrete tower blocks to the Right to Buy - affected those so often left out of the argument over council estates: the millions of people who live on them. What emerges is a vivid mix of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.
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Town and Country Planning in the UK
Barry Cullingworth, Vincent Nadin
(2006 - 14th Edition)
Paperback - 624 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415358108
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This extensively revised 14th edition of "Town and Country Planning in the UK" incorporates the major changes to planning introduced by the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act and the government's mission to change the culture of planning. It provides a critical discussion of the system of planning - the institutions involved, the plans and other instruments that are used, the procedures for controlling development and land use change, and the mechanisms for implementing policy and proposals. It reviews current policy for sustainable development, housing and the Sustainable Communities Plan, the Barker Review, urban renewal and regeneration, the renaissance of city and town centres, the countryside, transport, and the heritage. Contemporary arrangements are explained with reference to their historical development, the influence of the European Union, the Labour government and changing social and economic demands for land use change. Detailed consideration is given to: the nature of planning and its historical evolution; central, regional and local government, and the devolved administrations; the EU and its environmental and regional policies; the mechanisms of controlling development; policies for managing urban growth and delivering housing; sustainable development principles for planning; social and economic development of the countryside; planning the natural environment, waste and pollution control; conserving the heritage; the urban renaissance and regeneration; community engagement in planning; and changes to the profession and education of planners. Special attention is given to the objective of improving the co-ordination of government policies through the spatial planning approach. The many recent changes to the system are explained in detail - the new national policy statements and plans, regional spatial strategies and local development frameworks in England and other arrangements in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; new forms of land use regulation; sustainability appraisal and strategic environmental assessment; community engagement and relations between planning and community strategies; partnership working; changes to planning gain; and new initiatives in urban and housing renewal. Each chapter ends with notes on further reading and at the end of the book there are lists of official publications and an extensive bibliography, enhancing its reputation as the bible of British Planning.
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Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
(2006)
Hardcover - 240 pages
Verso Books
ISBN: 1844670228
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this brilliant and ambitious book Mike Davis charts the expected global urbanisation explosion over the next thirty years and points out that outside China most of the rest of the world's urban growth will be without industrialisation or development, rather a 'perverse' urban boom in spite of stagnant or negative urban economic growth. With a third of the global urban population living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence, on huge populations. He shows also how poverty not only grew massively in the 1990s (when the IMF policies of the 1980s were supposed to reap huge rewards) but how the gap between rich and poor countries expanded and how women and minorities fell further behind. Mike Davis argues that this enormous population of marginalised labourers is not a frenzied beehive of ambitious entrepreneurs but an 'active' unemployed, who have no choice but to subsist by some means or starve, in an arena of extreme Darwinian competition amongst the poor. It is a stagnant ferment which threatens to overflow the shanty-towns, and swamp the homes and businesses of the urban rich.
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Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-cultural Approaches
Glenn R. Storey (Editor)
(2006)
Paperback - 560 pages
University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817352465
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialisation. It further explores how scholars differently conceive and execute their research on the population of cities. The subject cities are in Greece, Mesoamerica, the Andes, Italy, Egypt, Africa, United States, Denmark, and China. This broad sample provides a useful framework for answers to such questions as "Why did people agglomerate into cities?" and "What threshold population size and settlement longevity constitute a city?" The study covers more than population magnitude and population makeup, the two major frameworks of urban demography. The contributors combine their archaeological and historical expertise to reveal commonalities, as well as theoretical extrapolations and methodological approaches, at work here and outside the sample. "Urbanism in the Preindustrial World" is a unique study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in preindustrial times.
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Children and Their Environments: Learning, Using and Designing Spaces
Christopher Spencer (Editor), Mark Blades (Editor)
(2005)
Paperback - 250 pages
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521546826
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This fascinating book examines theories of children's perceptions of space and place and explores how these theories are applied to the world of children. The focus is on children in large real world spaces; places that children live in, explore and learn from. These include classrooms, playgrounds, homes and yards, towns, communities, countryside, natural environments, and the wider world. An international team of authors compare the experiences of children from different cultures and backgrounds. Often excluded from discussions of place-design on the presumption of lack of awareness, young children have many environmental competencies which should lead to their inclusion. They can read maps and study photographs, respond to the natural and man-made world with great sensitivity, and contribute considerably to the community. This book will appeal to environmental and developmental psychologists and geographers, and also to planners by linking research on children's understandings and on their daily lives to recommendations for practice.
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Urban Forms
Ivor Samuels, Jean Castex, Jean Charles Depaule, Phillippe Panerai
(2004)
Paperback - 240 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750656077
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town planning, is the essential framework for everyday life. Only by investigating the urban tissue will it be possible to understand the complex relationships between plot and built form, between streets and buildings and between these forms and design practices. The chosen trail of the first French edition - Paris, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt - is one of continuously evolving modernity. It outlines a history, which, in one century (1860-1960), completely changed the aspect of our towns and cities and transformed our way of life. The shock has been such that we are still looking for answers, still attempting to find urban forms that can accommodate present day ways of life and at the same time maintain the qualities of the traditional town. This English edition brings the story forward to the present day and considers the impact of the New Urbanism in the United States, which, over the last decade, has sought to re-establish former relationships within the urban tissue.
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Cities
John Reader
(2004)
Hardcover - 388 pages
William Heinemann
ISBN: 0434009628
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Cities explores the city's raisons d'etre, functions and forms, its achievements and problems, from fortifications to sewers, factories to markets, theatres and bars. The book is a study of the nature of the city and of city-life, from the ruins of the earliest cities to the present, and it explores how cities develop and thrive, how they can decline and die, how they remake themselves. John Reader investigates their parasitic relationship with the country around them, the webs of trade and immigration they inhabit, how they feed and water themselves and dispose of their wastes, focusing as much on Baron Haussman's creation of the Paris sewers as of his plans for the grands boulevards, on prostitution as on government, on human lives as on architecture, on markets as on cathedrals, in a sweeping exploration of what the city is and has been, fit to stand alongside Lewis Mumford's 1962 classic The City in History.
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Great City Parks
Alan Tate
(2004)
Paperback - 224 pages
Spon Press
ISBN: 0415306361
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Great City Parks is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in a number of major cities in Western Europe and North America. As a collection they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The examination of each park looks at the size and condition of the sites at the time of designation, and looks at the reason for their designation and at the key figures behind the decisions to build them. The principal designers are profiled in terms of their backgrounds and the values that they brought to the projects. Each park is then examined in terms of its planning and design - looking at its location in the city, and the shape, size and existing landform of the site. The original design concept is reviewed in terms of spatial structure, circulation systems and intended character. The examinations then review the current status of the parks, looking at the organisations which manage them - how they are appointed; how they canvass their users' views; how the parks are funded - and at the patterns of use. The final sections of each park study looks at current plans for each of the parks. The study concludes by considering whether there are clear planning, design and management criteria for 'successful' city parks. Great City Parks is a celebration and rationale for some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. Based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with the managing organisations, the text is amplified by clear plans and professional photographs for each park. This book reflects a belief that well-planned, well-designed and well-managed parks remain invaluable components of liveable and hospitable cities. This fascinating book will appeal to Landscape Architects, Architects, Urban Planners, Park Managers, and anyone who appreciates the special role of parks in our urban environment.
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Fantastic Form: Architecture and Planning Today
Bill Risebero
(2005)
Hardcover - 192 pages
New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 1561310573
Synopsis by publisher:
Bill Risebero, author of The Story of Western Architecture and Modern Architecture and Design, brings his story of modern architecture up to date with this examination of what has followed the eclipse of modernism. He looks critically at the theory and practice of the past decade - the decline of welfare capitalism, post-modern architecture, the development of free-market and right-wing political attitudes and their application to planning and social policy. Risebero places his subject in as wide a context as possible, geographical and historical, relating it to current trends in town planning, art, education, philosophy and literary theory. He also looks at the signs of hope for the future of our cities - people's growing concern for the environment and the earth's resources, their increasing demands for positive change - and at their architectural implications.
This is a topical, controversial book which not only describes today's architecture and goes a long way to explain why it is as it is but also suggests radical solutions to the current unsatisfactory state of affairs.
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The Anxious City
Richard J. Williams
(2004)
Paperback - 296 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415279275
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In the western world, cities have, arguably, never been more anxious: realistic anxieties about personal safety, and metaphorical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in culture are the small change of journalism and political debate. Cities have long been regarded as problems, in need of drastic solutions. In this context, the contemporary revival of city centres is remarkable. But in a culture that largely fears the urban, how can the contemporary city be imagined? How is it supposed to be used or inhabited? What should it look like? What should be its purpose? Which existing forms of urban life might serve as models for a new city? Taking England since WW2 as its principal focus, this provocative and original book considers the western city at a critical moment in its history. Historically among the most urbanised of countries, England is an extraordinary urban laboratory. The energy and thoroughness with which its cities have been transformed in the 1990s have lessons for urban development everywhere. The Anxious City examines the problem of the contemporary city through a series of detailed case studies: Poundbury, Milton Keynes, Liverpool's Albert Dock redevelopment, Trafalgar Square, Canary Wharf, the Great Court of the British Museum, and central Manchester after the 1996 IRA bomb. It deals with some broader cultural phenomena too: the continuing attraction of picturesque aesthetics, and the lure of southern European urbanism (exemplified by the RIBA's canonisation of Barcelona) and the complex, contradictory relationship between urbanism in England and the USA. The experience of these places, the book argues, shows a culture where the idea of the city remains contested: the frantic redevelopment of city centres in the 1990s represented one vision of the city - the city of spectacular consumption, competing in some imaginary urban race with other world cities. But such development took place against continuing suburbanisation and sprawl. In spite of all the building works, the city was still being worked out This book is a cultural history that will be essential reading for anyone interested in the recent history of urban life. It argues that the contemporary city is uniquely anxious, caught between nostalgia for the past, and uncertainty about the future. At a crucial moment in the history of the city, it cuts through the urbanistic propaganda spread by architects and politicians. This unique and challenging study will be of interest to students and practitioners alike.
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Dead Cities: And Other Tales
Mike Davis
(2004)
Paperback - 448 pages
The New Press
ISBN: 1565848446
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Now in paperback, a brilliant book in which radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the decline of the American city. Using environmental science as his frame of understanding, Davis examines themes of urban life today - white flight, deindustrialization, housing and job segregation and discrimination, federal policy - as well as the areas he calls "national sacrifice zones" where warfare and arms production have rendered the landscape uninhabitable. The apocalyptic tour of urban America includes as destinations New York, Utah, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Los Angeles and San Diego. As Mike Davis shows in this extraordinary book, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Writing by the light of burning cities - Berlin in 1945, L.A. in 1992, and New York in 2001 - he explores the future of urban life in the face of catastrophic terrorism, global warming, and runaway capitalism. His unifying theme - and challenge to conventional theory - is the radical contingency of the metropolis.
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Conservation and Planning
Edward Hobson
(2003)
Paperback - 304 pages
Spon Press
ISBN: 0415278198
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Conserving historic buildings continues to excite and inflame opinion. The means of protecting such buildings and areas are well established but frequently suffer a lack of wider understanding. Conservation and Planning takes a detailed look at the way these processes have evolved and their use today by policy makers and local decision makers. The rise of the urban renaissance agenda, the crystalisation of sustainable development and the ascendancy of regional governance are all significant factors which have influenced the policy and practice of conserving historic buildings. The interpretation of value in the built environment is also significant, with a consideration of buildings as independent artefacts often overshadowing the value in the environmental and cultural context. Few studies have examined the underlying values used to justify the policies and actions undertaken in the name of conservation. This book presents original research into how national and local decision-makers construct and implement conservation of the built environment.
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Spiro Kostof, Richard Tobias (Illustrator)
(1999)
Paperback - 352 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500280991
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Cities are among the most enduring and remarkable of human artefacts. This study explains how and why cities took the shape they did. Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs, historical views and specially commissioned drawings depict a global mosaic of citybuilding: the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj; the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism and the transformation of the skyline as religious and civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business.
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Healthy Urban Planning
Hugh Barton, Catherine Tsourou
(2000)
Paperback - 208 pages
Spon Press
ISBN: 0415243270
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This text, aimed at urban planners, attempts to refocus the implications of their work for human health and well-being. One hundred years ago, the urban planning and public health movements were closely aligned, with pioneering thinkers and philanthropic employers looking to improve living conditions and therefore increase health, well-being, quality of life and productivity of the citizens. This work explores the need in the 21st-century to revisit these links and to make health objectives central to the urban planning process. Many of the problems faced in cities and ways to resolve them are discussed and the author suggests that improving health should be the fundamental goal of urban planners. Factors which have an impact on health such as poor housing, poverty, stress, pollution, and lack of access to jobs, goods and services are also examined. The book provides practical advice on ways to integrate health with urban planning and should be useful reading for those working in the fields of regeneration and renewal. It should also be of interest to those with an interest in sustainable development.
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A Tale of Two Global Cities: Comparing the Territorialities of Telecommunications Developments in Paris and London
Jonathan Rutherford
(2004)
Hardcover - 368 pages
Ashgate Publishing Limited
ISBN: 0754634744
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Since the mid-1980s, telecommunications and information technologies (IT) have become more intensely bound up than ever before in the social, economic, political and cultural processes and transformations which are increasingly concentrated in and between key strategic urban places across the globe. By analysing telecommunications developments in Paris and London, this book offers an explicit comparative and cross-national approach to the development of urban telecommunications infrastructures and to the development of global cities through a focus on these crucial infrastructures. The case studies are founded solidly on a critical discussion of and engagement with the most relevant and recent debates and theories in urban studies, geography and planning. By examining differing, but parallel influences of national, urban and local contexts, processes and practices bound up in telecommunications developments, the book firmly underlines the inherently territorial basis of these developments and their multi-scalar elements and implications, all of which are being reinforced by the current stringent strategic retrenching of telecommunications operations around the globe.
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Cyberspace Divide
Brian Loader (Editor)
(1998)
Paperback - 288 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415169690
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The global communications networks which make up cyberspace are claimed to be altering almost every facet of our lives. This work analyzes issues of agency, equality and autonomy as they are affected by global communications networks and evaluates national policies for the development of information superhighways. It also examines the changes in interaction, ethical behaviour, professional power relationships and academic discourse as a result of electronic communication.
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Conservation and the City
Peter Larkham
(1996)
Paperback - 352 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415079489
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs, even villages - and how the activities of conservation interact with the planning system. It seeks to explore why, and what, change occurs, and who proposes and controls change, in areas of townscape that have been identified as worth conserving. Examining the key social, economic, and psychological ideas which support conservation, the book discusses various countries' conservation planning systems and the fundamental ideas that act as precendents to guide future practice.
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Cities in Civilization
Peter Hall
(1999)
Paperback - 1180 pages
Phoenix Press
ISBN: 0753808153
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This is an exploration of the history of cities and their role in the development of civilization, from the cultural crucibles of Athens, through Florence in the 15th century, to the industrial innovations of Manchester and Palo Alto, to the "city as freeway" in Los Angeles.
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Urban Regeneration
Peter Roberts (Editor), Hugh Sykes (Editor)
(1999)
Paperback - 352 pages
Sage Publications Ltd
ISBN: 0761967176
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Providing students and practitioners with a detailed overview of the key theoretical and applied issues, this book is a comprehensive and integrated primer on regeneration. The various chapters: review the history and context of urban regeneration; consider funding implications; look at environmental, social and community issues, as well as employment, education and training; focus on managing urban regeneration; consider land use issues; and discuss monitoring and evaluation. The book concludes with a comparative analysis, with examples from America and Europe, and a discussion of future trends.
The book represents the first systematic overview of urban regeneration in one volume and is set to become the standard reference work. As such, it will be required reading for practitioners involved in regeneration, and students of urban studies, planning, architecture, and estate management.
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Urban Policy and Politics in Britain
Dilys M. Hill
(2000)
Paperback - 272 pages
Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press
ISBN: 0333739221
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The Labour Government has unleashed a new dynamism in urban policy and politics in Britain and given rise to a variety of initiatives including elected mayors, regional development agencies and assaults on social exclusion and educational standards, to name but a few. This text analyses the key changes in approach and policy since the 1970s, especially the increased role of the market and its implications for the legitimacy and accountability of local political structures. It provides an introduction to the development and an insight into the opportunities and constraints of urban renewal.
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Understanding the Urban
David Byrne
(2001)
Paperback - 240 pages
Palgrave, formerly Macmillan Press
ISBN: 0333724291
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This interdisciplinary text examines the contemporary nature and possible futures of cities in a postindustrial and globalized world. Cities are considered both as complex systems and as the product of collective human action. The theoretical perspectives of urban history, geography and sociology, and empirical studies from the developed, developing and former soviet systems, are brought together to describe the crucial processes of the restructuring of urban employment, the creation of the built environment and the transformation of "culture" in cities.
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Towards an Urban Renaissance
Urban Task Force, Lord Rogers of Riverside (Introduction), John Prescott
(1999)
Paperback - 328 pages
Department of the Environment & Department of Transport Library
ISBN: 185112165X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The Urban Task Force was established by the Department of Environment, Transport and Regions to simulate debate about our urban environment. Their findings, conclusions and recommendations were presented in a final report to government ministers in summer 1999, forming the basis for this book.
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The English Urban Landscape
Philip Waller (Editor)
(2000)
Hardcover - 352 pages
Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198601174
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The emphasis in this work is that of the historian, rather than the physical geographer: that is, a primary focus on the people who make the landscapes, the changing social structure of the communities, and the different economies which sustained them. The 13 chapters combine chronological and thematic surveys. After a general introduction by Dr Waller, chapters 2-5 provide overviews of how the urban landscape in England developed during the Roman period, the Early Medieval period, the Medieval period, and the Early Modern Period. The second, larger part of the text offers a variety of thematic approaches to the history of the built environment, with a focus on the 1800s and 1900s: metropolitanism, the commercial city, the industrial city, transport, slums and suburbs, recreation, civil and ecclesiastical, and artistic and literary.
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The Creative City
Charles Landry
(2000)
Paperback - 311 pages
Earthscan
ISBN: 1853836133
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Cities have always been the crucible of culture and civilization and the hubs of wealth creation. But today they face enormous challenges. Over half the world's population already lives in cities and the proportion is set to grow rapidly. Compounded by infrastructural, economic and social problems, dramatic changes are taking place. If cities are to flourish, there has to be a paradigm shift in the way they are managed, to draw fully on the talents and creativity of their own residents - businesses, city authorities and the citizens themselves. This text is a call for imaginative action in the development and running of urban life and a clear and detailed toolkit of methods by which our cities can be revived and revitalized. Presenting case studies and examples of urban innovation and regeneration from around the world, it analyzes the crucial steps and disciplines involved. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, and how to apply the methods described in any city.
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Terrorism, Risk and the City: The Making of a Contemporary Urban Landscape
Jon Coaffee
(2003)
Hardcover - 278 pages
Ashgate Publishing Limited
ISBN: 0754635554
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The continued fortification of urban areas has attracted significant attention and has become particularly relevant in counter-terrorist strategies since 9/11. This book is articulated in the light of these discussions, which focus on notions of risk, security and the spatial restructuring of contemporary cities. In particular it examines how terrorist targeting of the City of London since the early 1990s has led to changes in both physical and institutional infrastructure. The book analyses how the various formal and informal strategies adopted in the City attempted to reduce both the physical and financial risk of terrorism. This was undertaken through a series of place-specific security initiatives and risk management policies which led to increased fortification, a substantial rise in terrorism insurance premiums and changing institutional relations at a variety of spatial scales to protect London's position as a global city. It is also argued that the security measures deployed were advanced not in terms of an anti-terrorist effort, but in relation to the unintended by-products of these approaches such as crime reduction and enhanced traffic management capabilities.
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Telecommunications and the City
Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin
(1996)
Paperback - 456 pages
Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415119030
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This book provides a critical review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh perspective. Through this approach, the complex and crucial transformations underway in cities in which telecommunications have central importance are mapped out and illustrated. Key areas where telecommunications impinge on the economic, social, physical, environmental and institutional development of cities are illustrated by using boxed extracts and case study examples from Europe, Japan and North America.
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