Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. In Urban Planning in a Changing World Robert Freestone and his contributors present a series of essays which address: the history of urban planning and its diffusion during the 20th century; the key paradigms which have shaped its development; the issues of urban reform on which it has focused; the increasing involvement of planning with conservation and green issues; the concepts and concerns which are the focus of...
Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over t...
The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present day, it will instantly become a standard work ' Professor Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilisation.. The Australian Metropolis provides a single-volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for...
The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of ...
The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present day, it will instantly become a standard work ' Professor Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilisation.. The Australian Metropolis provides a single-volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for...
The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of ...
'Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning' offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship, illustrating the concerns and the discourse of this field and providing a glimpse into planning theory and practice.
'Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning' offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship, illustrating the concerns and the discourse of t...
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. For the last 50 years, he has captured and helped to create the 'planning imagination'. Here the editors have brought together in five themes a series of critical reflections on Peter's vast and diverse contributions. Those reflections are provided by colleagues familiar with his work. The five parts...
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...
Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph s "Place and Placelessness" has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design. For four decades, ideas put forward by this seminal work have continued to spark debates, from the concept of placelessness itself through how it plays out in our societies to how city designers might respond to its challenge in practice.
Drawing on evidence from Australian, British, Japanese, and North and South American urban settings, "Place and...
Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph s "Place and Placelessness" has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across dis...
Christopher Silver Robert Freestone Christophe Demaziere
The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.
This 6th volume incorporates essays that explore the salient issue commonly referred to as -The Right to the City.- This theme speaks to a growing new movement within planning theory and practice with multiple aims and strategies but with the common objective...
The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from a...
