Planning History Books

New and Published Books – Page 7

61. New Urbanism and American Planning

    The Conflict of Cultures

    By Emily Talen

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    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...

    Published July 11th 2005 by Routledge
62. Globalizing Taipei

    The Political Economy of Spatial Development

    Edited by Reginald Kwok

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this "Asian Dragon", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has received firm state support but...

    Published April 27th 2005 by Routledge
63. The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing

    By Anne-Marie Broudehoux

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Describes the changing life of the city and its inhabitants during the final decades of the twentieth century and examines the complex forces at play in the search for modernity. The author presents us with four case studies of how the city is marketing and selling itself (including its...

    Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge
64. Shaping the City

    Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design

    Edited by RODOLPHE EL-KHOURY, EDWARD ROBBINS

    Taking on important themes and debates in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important moments in their development. This is a wide-ranging collection of in-depth case studies, each ...

    Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge
65. Planning by Consent

    The Origins and Nature of British Development Control

    By Philip Booth

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997. Remarkably, the system has survived more or less intact but the experience of the 1980s has left large questions unanswered about the relevance and effectiveness of the system. This book traces the history...

    Published June 4th 2003 by Routledge
66. Exporting American Architecture 1870-2000

    By Jeffrey W. Cody

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    The export of American architecture began in the nineteenth century as a disjointed set of personal adventures and commercial initiatives. It continues today alongside the transfer of other aspects of American life and culture to most regions of the world. Jeffrey Cody explains how, why and where...

    Published December 18th 2002 by Routledge
67. Embodied Utopias

    Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis

    Edited by Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, Rebecca Zorach

    Series: Architext

    Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies. Many utopian designs now appear impractical, manifesting an arrogant disregard for the lived experiences of the ordinary inhabitants who make daily use of global public and private...

    Published October 24th 2001 by Routledge
68. Council Housing and Culture

    The History of a Social Experiment

    By Alison Ravetz

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Born of idealism, and once an icon of the Labour movement and pillar of the Welfare State, council housing is now nearing its end. But do its many failings outweigh its positive contributions to public health and wellbeing?Alison Ravetz here provides the first comprehensive and apolitical history...

    Published June 27th 2001 by Routledge
69. Twentieth-Century Suburbs

    A Morphological Approach

    By C.M.H Carr, J.W.R Whitehand

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental process of transformation in the physical form of the Western city since the Middle Ages.This book describes the ways...

    Published May 23rd 2001 by Routledge
70. Utopian England

    Community Experiments 1900-1945

    By Dennis Hardy

    Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

    England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now,...

    Published August 15th 2000 by Routledge