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Introducing the PHE series

Published by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. This series offers a unique window on the creation of the modern environment. Designed for an international readership, the emphasis is on: urban and regional planning recent as well as longer-term history what...

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AuthorDavid A. JohnsonPublishedJanuary 2015Themes
city and urban planningNew York

Planning the Great Metropolis

As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson’s critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. As he says in his preface...
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Edited ByEmily Gunzburger Makaš and Tanja Damljanović ConleyPublishedJanuary 2015Themes
capital citiesEuropecity and urban planning

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires

Capital cities seem to be a natural phenomenon: a state, especially a nation state, needs a central city from which it is governed and administered. However, in history this has not always been the case, and how much capital cities are cultural constructions...
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AuthorArturo AlmandozPublishedOctober 2014Themes
modernisationurbanisationsouth america20th century

Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s–2000s

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America’s twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development. This relationship...
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Edited BySonia Hirt, Diane ZahmPublishedSeptember 2014Themes
Jane Jacobssociologyplanning

The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; III. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban...
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