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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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AuthorJason CorburnPublishedApril 2013Themes
healthcity planningpublic healthpublic planning

Healthy City Planning

Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that todayʼs cities will...
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Edited ByStephen Hamnett and Dean ForbesPublishedMarch 2013Themes
Asian studiesurban geographyplanning history

Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience

In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities. They show...
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AuthorYasser ElsheshtawyPublishedMarch 2013Themes
Middle East Cultureurban historyurban geography

Dubai: Beyond an Urban Spectacle

For many, the image of Dubai is of islands shaped like palm trees, luxurious shopping malls and the iconic building in the shape of a dhow’s sail – the Burj al Arab. In Dubai: Beyond an Urban Spectacle, Yasser Elsheshtawy reveals a very different...
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AuthorRobert HomePublishedJanuary 2013Themes
British Empirecitiesplanning

Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities

‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt...
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