Landscape category: 1155 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing international concern, both in planning practice and in academic work. The issue is important to practitioners because of the impact of globalisation on notions...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
With contributions from leading academics and practitioners, *Strategic Planning for Regional Development in the UK *is the most up-to-date treatment of a fast-changing subject.
The book discusses:
The evolution of regional planning in the UK and the strategic thinking involved
The spatial...
Decent Homes for All
Planning's Evolving Role in Housing Provision
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Are you concerned about the state of current housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? Decent Homes for All addresses fundamental questions about the current housing crisis; examining its history and evolution.
The first text on the housing-planning interface, it...
The Planning Imagination
Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Knighted in 1998 ‘for services to the Town and Country Planning Association’, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a ‘Pioneer in the Life of the Nation’, Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning....
Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning
Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This book provides a multi-disciplinary study of territory, identity and space in a devolved UK, through the lens of spatial planning. It draws together leading internationally renowned researchers from a variety of disciplines to address the implications of devolution upon spatial planning and the...
Transcultural Cities
Border-Crossing and Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental...
The Making of Hong Kong
From Vertical to Volumetric
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.
The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about;...
Threatened Landscapes
Conserving Cultural Environments
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Few, if any, environments are free of human intervention. Often this generates ecosystems which are rich in biodiversity, historical interest, recreational opportunity and scenic beauty just as worthy of conservation as the more natural ecosystems on which protection programmes have been almost exclusively...
by Alexander Garvin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The definitive guide to urban planning and design--completely updated and now in full color
In the Third Edition of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, award-winning city planner and renowned urban scholar Alexander Garvin examines more than 350 programs and projects that have been implemented...
New Urbanism and American Planning
The Conflict of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners’ quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century. In her survey of the last hundred or so years of urbanist ideals, Emily Talen identifies...
Intimate Metropolis
Urban Subjects in the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.
Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic...
Paris Under Construction
Building Sites and Urban Transformation in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour immigration and national identity. As new buildings and infrastructure changed the city, building sites revealed the substandard living and working conditions of migrant construction...
by Steve Tiesdell, Matthew Carmona
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2007
Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary key texts.
Urban design as a form of place making has become an increasingly significant area...
Site Matters
Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings.
Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters presents that first considered theory and vocabulary...