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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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Edited BySonia Hirt with Diane ZahmPublishedSeptember 2012Themes
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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AuthorBarrie SheltonPublishedMarch 2012Themes
citiesJapan

Learning from the Japanese City: East Looks West in Urban Design

Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so. Like its cities, Japan’s...
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AuthorClaire ColombPublishedNovember 2011Themes
politicsurban redevelopmentBerlin

Staging the New Berlin: Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989

This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation...
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AuthorScott A. BollensPublishedSeptember 2011Themes
culturepolitics

City and Soul in Divided Societies

In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao,...
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