Neighbourhood Centres in Europe: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Editor: Louise Nyström
15 Mar 2006

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  • Neighbourhood Centres in Europe: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
    Louise Nystrm
  • The Netherlands: Adaptation of the Carefully Planned Structure
    Frank Wassenberg
  • Sweden: The Life and Death and Life of Great Neighbourhood Centres
    Louise Nystrm, Mats Johan Lundstrm
  • Germany: Neighbourhood Centres A Complex Issue
    Frank Eckardt
  • France: Centrality or Proximity, Consumption or Culture?
    Anne Querrien, Laurent Devisme
  • Britain: Runcorn A Tale of Two Centres
    Chris Couch, Steven Fowles
  • Publication Reviews
    Donald McNeill, Robin Hickman

Planning Healthy Towns and Cities

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Editors: Bechir Kenzari and Yasser Elsheshtawy
15 Dec 2005

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  • Healthy Urban Planning: Setting the Scene
    Hugh Barton
  • Healthy Cities: The Impact of Food Retail-led Regeneration on Food Access, Choice and Retail Structure
    Steven Cummins, Anne Findlay, Mark Petticrew, Leigh Sparks
  • Urban Settings and Opportunities for Healthy Lifestyles: Rediscovering Walking and Cycling and Understanding Their Health Benefits
    Francesca Racioppi, Carlos Dora, Harry Rutter
  • Housing and Health: A Way Forward
    Roderick J. Lawrence
  • Biodiversity and Human Health: What Role for Nature in Healthy Urban Planning?
    Caroline Brown,  Marcus Grant
  • A Health Map for Urban Planners
    Hugh Barton
  • Healthy Cities and the Built Environment
    Leonard Duhl
  • Publication Reviews
    Hugh Barton, Nick Gallent

Polycentric Development Policies Across Europe

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Editors: Wil Zonneveld, Evert Meijers and Bas Waterhout
15 Sep 2005

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  • Polycentric Development Policies in European Countries: An Introduction
    Evert Meijers, Bas Waterhout, Wil Zonneveld
  • Striving for Equity: Polycentric Development Policies in France
    Guy Baudelle, Jean Peyrony
  • Polycentricity in Policies: The Greek Case
    Minas Angelidis
  • The Polycentric Turn in the Irish Spatial Strategy
    Simin Davoudi, Michelle Wishardt
  • The Urban System of Poland
    Piotr Korcelli
  • Polycentricity in Finland: From Structure to Strategy
    Janne Antikainen, PerttuVartiainen
  • Polycentricity in Italian Policies
    Carlo Salone
  • Polycentric Development Policies in Europe: Overview and Debate
    Bas Waterhout, Wil Zonneveld, Evert Meijers
  • Publication Reviews
    John R. Gold, Gabriel Dupuy

 

Music and the City

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Editor: Robert Kloosterman
15 Jun 2005

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  • Come Together: An Introduction to Music and the City
    Robert C. Kloosterman
  • Recording Studios: Relational Spaces of Creativity in the City
    Chris Gibson
  • Black Stars or Black Holes? Cities as Sites for Verticality in Popular Black Music Production
    Howard R. Harrington
  • Detroit, City of Cars, City of Music
    Chris Quispel
  • HipHop ist im Haus: Cultural Policy, Community Centres, and the Making of Hip-Hop Music in Germany
    Michael Hoyler, Christoph Mager
  • Songs from the Wood and Sounds of the Suburbs: A Folk, Rock and Punk Portrait of England, 1965–1977
    Nick Green
  • Publication Reviews
     

 

Multifunctional Urban Land Use

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Editors: Hugo Priemus, Caroline A. Rodenburg and Peter Nijkamp
15 Dec 2004

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  • Multifunctional Urban Land Use: A New Phenomenon? A New Planning Challenge?
    Hugo Priemus, Caroline A. Rodenburg,  Peter Nijkamp
  • Multifunctional Land Use in the City: A Typological Overview
    Caroline A. Rodenburg, Peter Nijkamp
  • Urban Multifunctional Land Use: Theoretical and Empirical Insights on Economies of Scale, Scope and Diversity
    Ron Vreeker, Henri L.F. de Groot, Erik T. Verhoef
  • Compact City and Urban Sprawl
    Frans Dieleman, Michael Wegener
  • Representing Multifunctional Cities: Density and Diversity in Space and Time
    Michael Batty, Elena Besussi, Kees Maat, Jan Jaap Harts
  • Multifunctional Urban Planning of Mega-City-Regions
    Hugo Priemus, Peter Hall
  • Publication Reviews
    Anthony Sutcliffe, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Sutcliffe Yasser

Creative Cultural Knowledge Cities

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Editors: Sako Musterd and Wim Ostendorf
15 Sep 2004

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  • Creative Cultural Knowledge Cities: Perspectives and Planning Strategies
    Sako Musterd, Wim Ostendorf
  • Bare Geographies in Knowledge Societies – Creative Cities as Text and Piece of Art: Two Eyes, One Vision
    Ilse Helbrecht
  • A Discovery of Creative Talent in the Margins of Urban Development
    Martijn Arnoldus
  • A Place in the World: Barcelona's Quest to Become a Global Knowledge City
    Andrés Walliser
  • Amsterdam as a Creative Cultural Knowledge City: Some Conditions
    Sako Musterd
  • The Role of Housing in Delivering a Knowledge Economy
    Peter Lee, Alan Murie
  • Culture and the City: A View from the ‘Athens of the North’
    Brian Robson
  • Creativity, Culture, Knowledge and the City
    Peter Hall
  • Publication Reviews
    Yasser Elsheshtawy, John R. Gold, Peter Hall, Meredith L. Clausen

New Urbanism

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  • New Urbanism: An Introduction
    Stephen Marshall
  • New Urbanism — the Movement in Context
    Michael Hebbert
  • New Urbanism and the American Metropolis
    Michael Southworth
  • A Tale of Two Towns Tells a Lot about this Thing called New Urbanism
    Alex Marshall
  • Transport and Sustainability: The Role of the Built Environment
    Randall Crane, Lisa A. Scweitzer
  • A New Urbanist Diffusion Network: The Americo-European Connection
    Michelle Thompson-Fawcett
  • Publication Reviews
    Jack T. Sidener, David Banister, Michael Pacione

Perspectives on Urban Greenspace in Europe

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  • Perspectives on Urban Greenspace in Europe
    Stephan Pauleit
  • Nature, Role and Value of Green Space in Towns and Cities: An Overview
    Carys Swanwick, Nigel Dunnett, Helen Woolley
  • Green and Red: Enemies or Allies? The Utrecht Experience with Green Structure Planning
    Sybrand Tjallingii
  • Byker Revisited
    Robin Abrams
  • A Changing Understanding of the Role of Greenspace in High-density Housing: A European Perspective
    Anne R. Beer, Tim Delshammar,  Peter Schildwacht
  • Challenges in the Planning and Management of ‘Greenstructure’ in Warsaw, Poland
    Barbara Szulczewska, Ewa Kaliszuk
  • Promoting the Natural Greenstructure of Towns and Cities: English Nature's Accessible Natural Greenspace Standards Model
    Stephan Pauleit, Paul Slinn, John Handley, Sarah Lindley
  • Win-Win-Solutions in Spatial Planning in Germany
    Bettina Oppermann, Kerstin Langer
  • Publication Reviews
    Stephen Marshall

The Cosmopolis: Emerging Multicultural Spaces in Europe and North America

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Editor: Noha Nasser
15 Mar 2004

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  • From Multicultural Urbanities to the Postmodern Cosmopolis: A Praxis for Urban Democracy
    Noha Nasser
  • Constructing an Islamic Environment in Northern Ireland
    Gabriele Marranci
  • The Multicultural City and the Politics of Religious Architecture: Urban Planning, Mosques and Meaning-Making in Birmingham, UK
    Richard Gale
  • (Re)making Hindu Sacred Places in Northern California
    Reena Mehta
  • The Use of Domestic Space by Migrants on a Greek Island: Transformation or Translocation of Cultures?
    Antonia Noussia
  • Southall's Kaleido-scape: A study in the changing morphology of a west London suburb
    Noha Nasser
  • Publication Reviews
    Dennis Hardy
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The Sustainable City: Transport and Spatial Development

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  • Dual Strategies for the Environmental and Financial Goals of Sustainable Cities: De-Suburbanization and Social Capitalization
    Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Ikuo Sugiyama
  • Backcast Analysis for Realizing Sustainable Urban Form in Nagoya
    Yasuo Tomita, Daisuke Terashima, Amin Hammad, Yoshitsugu Hayashi
  • Proposing Social Capitalization Indices of Street Blocks for Evaluation of Urban Space Quality
    Hirokazu Kato, Mei Yu, Yoshitsugu Hayashi
  • Achieving Sustainable Accessibility: An Evaluation of Policy Measures in the Amsterdam Area
    Frank le Clercq, Luca Bertolini
  • Modelling Transportation Policy Impacts on Mobility Benefits and Kyoto-Protocol-Related Emissions
    John Douglas Hunt
  • Growing Smart by Linking Transportation and Land Use: Perspectives from California
    Robert Cervero
  • Publication Reviews
    Helen Meller, Anthony Sutcliffe, Robin Hickman, Jane Stamp, Barrie Shelton

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