Barcelona is perhaps the European city which has become most renowned for successfully remaking of itself in the last 20 years. This image has been spread cumulatively round the world, by books, television, internet sites, as well as by films and use of the city in advertisements. This book is about the reality behind that image. It describes how the governors, professional planners and architects, and in a wider sense the people of the city and of Catalonia, brought about the succession of changes which began in about 1980. Transforming Barcelona is made up of chapters by those involved in...

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorial foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. Covers and defines some 270 terms.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, this book provides students and practitioners with a descriptive and analytical foundation for understanding this r

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, this book provides students and practitioners with a descriptive and analytical foundation for understanding this r

This dictionary provides a stimulating and categorial foundation for a serious international discourse on design. It is a handbook for everyone concerned with design in career or education, who is interested in it, enjoys it, and wishes to understand it. Covers and defines some 270 terms.

This text analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK. Have some countries managed to generate genuine consensus on how the large changes are progressed? The book explores this question and much more.

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers.

All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas, and concrete. To understand world events, news organizations and other authorities often focus on people, ideas, and political movements, but without geography, we never have the full picture. Now, in the relevant and timely Prisoners of Geography, seasoned...

Die Macht der Flaggen: Tim Marshall erklärt die Welt und ihre Politik anhand ihrer Symbole

Die Beschaffenheit der Erde mit Ozeanen, Gebirgen und Wüsten hat Einfluss auf Ländergrenzen, Geschichte und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen.