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Built Environment at Fifty: Perspectives, Landmarks, and Prospects

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Volume 50 – Number 4

Summary

2024 is the Golden Anniversary of Built Environment. To mark the occasion this special double issue is published to reflect on the changes that have taken place over the journal’s fifty years. The editors have identified some of the key papers published over the decades and these are reprinted here, together with a commentary on whether they have stood the test of time and their relevance today.

 

David Banister, Stephen Marshall, Lucy Natajaran
10 Sep 2024

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  • Built Environment at Fifty: Perspectives, Landmarks, and Prospects
    DAVID BANISTER, STEPHEN MARSHALL and LUCY NATAJARAN
  • Environmental Impact Analysis: Scientific Tool or Philosopher’s Stone?
    DAVID BANISTER
    Brian D. Clark, Keith Chapman, Ronald Bisset and Peter Wathern (1978) Methods of environmental impact analysis.
    John Glasson (1994) Life after the decision: the importance of monitoring in EIA.
    Sachihiko Harashina (2001) A new stage of EIA in Japan. 
  • The Built Environment: Framing and Enabling Vital Streets
    STEPHEN MARSHALL
    Jan Gehl (1980) The residential street environment.
    Vinicius M. Netto, Renato Saboya and Júlio Celso Vargas (2022) Does architecture matter to urban vitality?
    Buildings and the social life of streets and neighbourhoods. 
  • Inclusion and the Rise of Liveability
    LUCY NATAJARAN
    Jos Boys (1990) Dealing with difference. 
    Maria Carrizosa (2023) No house is just a house: house interviews, space-use intensity, and city-making.
  • The Compact City
    DAVID BANISTER
    Susan E. Owens and Peter A. Rickaby (1992) Settlements and energy revisited.
    Seema Dave (2010) High urban densities in developing countries: a sustainable solution? 
  • Revisiting Cyberspace
    STEPHEN MARSHALL
    Ken Friedman (1998) Building cyberspace: Information, place and policy.
  • Regional Perspectives
    LUCY NATAJARAN
    Attilio Petruccioli (2002) New methods of reading the urban fabric of the Islamicized Mediterranean.  
    Campanella, R. (2014) Fluidity, rigidity and consequence: a comparative historical geography of the Mississippi and Sénégal River Deltas and the deltaic urbanism of New Orleans and Saint-Louis. 
  • Transport – There Must Be Better Ways
    DAVID BANISTER
    Vincent Kaufmann (2004) Social and political segregation of urban transportation: the merits and limitations of the Swiss cities model. 
    Susan Shaheen, Adam Cohen, A. Jacquelyn and Broader (2021) What’s the ‘big’ deal with shared micromobility? Evolution, curb policy, and potential developments in North America.

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