Urban Ethic

Design in the Contemporary City

By Eamonn Canniffe

Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34865-2 (Routledge)

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Ordinary Cities

Between Modernity and Development

By Jennifer Robinson

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30488-7 (Routledge)

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Planning the Good Community

New Urbanism in Theory and Practice

By Jill Grant

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals,...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70075-7 (Routledge)

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The Network Society

A New Context for Planning

Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum

In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70151-8 (Routledge)

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Courtyard Housing

Past, Present and Future

Edited by Brian Edwards, Magda Sibley, Mohammad Hakmi, Peter Land

Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-26272-9 (Taylor & Francis)

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Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1

The Framework and Protocols for Environmental Assessment

Edited by Stephen Curwell, Mark Deakin, Martin Symes

Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32215-7 (Routledge)

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The Urban Sociology Reader

Edited by Jan Lin, Christopher Mele FREDERIC STOUT RICHARD LEGATES (SERIES ED)

The urban world is a provocative terrain on which to contemplate the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32343-7 (Routledge)

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Rome

A New Planning Strategy

By Franco Archibugi

Rome: A New Planning Strategy looks at the problems of a city over the last century and suggests a totally new planning strategy. The book...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30366-8 (Routledge)

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New Urbanism and American Planning

The Conflict of Cultures

By Emily Talen

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...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-70133-4 (Routledge)

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Urban Environmentalism

Global Change and the Mediation of Local Conflict

By Peter Brand, Michael Thomas

A critical examination of urban policies and management practices used to make cities sustainable. With an international perspective, the book describes urban environmental agendas and...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30481-8 (Routledge)

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