PUBLISHED IN 2008
The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Mordernity and Urban Development
Edited by
Yasser Elsheshtawy
In their chapters on Rabat, Amman, Beirut, Manama, Kuwait, Riyadh, Doha, Abu Dhabi, the eight authors, all closely affiliated with their respective cities, reflect on urban development of each city from the nineteenth century to the present day – a time-frame chosen to illustrate the impact of colonialism (or foreign protection) on the cities’ morphology and contrast this with the impacts of globalization.
ISBN: 9780415411561
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PUBLISHED IN 2007
Planning the Megacity: Jakarta in the Twentieth Century
Christopher Silver
Examines the dramatic transformation of Jakarta over the past century, as the erstwhile colonial capital of the Netherlands Indies became Southeast Asia's largest metropolitan area.
ISBN: 9780415701648
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Olympic Cities: City agendas, planning and the world’s games, 1896–2012
Edited by
John R. Gold, and Margaret M. Gold
This is the first full overview of the changing relationship between Olympic events – the Summer Games, Winter Games, and Cultural Olympiads – and cities.
ISBN: 9780415374071
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Designing Australia’s Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900–1930
Robert Freestone
Extensively illustrated, this is first comprehensive history of a design and reform movement which helped shape Australia’s cities.
ISBN: 9780415424226
PUBLISHED IN 2006
Remaking Chinese Urban Form: Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949–2005
Duanfang Lu
Today, when the Chinese city has revealed its many faces, Remaking Chinese Urban Form presents a refreshing panorama of the nation’s mixed experiences with socialist and Third World modernity which is both timely and provocative.
ISBN: 0415354501
Planning Twentieth Century Capital Cities
Edited by David L.A. Gordon
For anyone with an interest in capital cities, their urban planning and design, this book will be the key source book for a long time to come. ISBN: 0415280613
SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
Planning Europe’s Capital Cities: Aspects of nineteenth-century urban development
Thomas Hall
Reveals how the capital city projects of the nineteenth century were central to the evolution of modern planning and the townscapes of today. ISBN: 0419172904
Utopian England: Community experiments 1900–1945
Dennis Hardy
Explores the fascinating history of utopian ideals, the lives of those who pursued them, and the communities they created. ISBN: 0419246703
Urban Planning in a Changing World: The twentieth experience
Edited by Robert Freestone
Links the past and future and provides a basis for the advance of urban planning into the new millennium. ISBN: 0419246509
Selling Places: The marketing and promotion of towns and cities, 1850–2000
Stephen V. Ward
Describes the development of place marketing and promotion over the last 150 years, with examples from North America, Britain and Europe. ISBN: 0419206108
Council Housing and Culture: The history of a social experiment
Alison Ravetz
A comprehensive apolitical history of British council housing from its seeds in Victorian reaction to the ‘Poor’ to the present day. ISBN: 041523946X
Planning Latin America’s Capital Cities, 1850–1950
Arturo Almandoz
The first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America’s Capital Cities in the post-colonial period. ISBN: 0415272653
Exporting American Architecture, 1870–2000
Jeffrey W. Cody
Investigates why and where American architects, planners, building
contractors and other actors have marketed American architecture overseas. ISBN: 0415299152
Planning by Consent: The origins and nature of British development control
Philip Booth
Provides historical evidence for the way development control has evolved to become a central part of British planning. ISBN: 0419244107
The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing
Anne-Marie Broudehoux
With the help of case studies, reveals the changing life of the city and its inhabitants in the final decades of the twentieth century. ISBN: 0415320577
Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope in a
Globalizing World
Yasser Elsheshtawy
The cities in this book are the kaleidoscope of the title; each is discussed by a young Arab scholar either born or living in that city. ISBN: 0415304008
Globalizing Taipei: The political economy of spatial development
Edited by Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok
Describes Taipei’s quest to become a global city and the interaction of international, state and local politics in shaping its urban environment. ISBN: 041535451X
New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures
Emily Talen
Demonstrates how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving in the US planning since the nineteenth century. ISBN 0415701333
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