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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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AuthorBarrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz and Thomas KvanPublishedAugust 2014Themes
urban developmentplanning historyurban history

The Making of Hong Kong

With its island origins, skyscraper skyline and world city status, Hong Kong is often likened to New York. However the comparison soon falters with the realization that Hong Kong’s skyscrapers are only the more visible aspect of a far more complex urban...
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AuthorPeter Hall and Colin WardPublishedJune 2014Themes
garden citiesplanning policyhousing policyplanning history

Sociable Cities: The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

Sir Peter Hall (1932–2014) was internationally renowned for his studies on all aspects of cities and regions. He was Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at University College London and President of both the Town and Country Planning Association...
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Edited ByMark Tewdwr-Jones, Nicholas A. Phelps and Robert FreestonePublishedSeptember 2013Themes
urban planningregional planningPeter Hall

The Planning Imagination

Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning. For the last 50 years, he has captured and helped to create the ‘planning imagination’.
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AuthorPeter HallPublishedSeptember 2013Themes
urbanismcitiesEurope

Good Cities, Better Lives: How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism

This book has one central theme: how...
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