The Settlement Patterns of Britain: Past, Present and the Future Foretold in Eight Essays
His book is a collection of eight non-fiction short stories or essays, where the characters are the places, some of which appear more once, usually as bit-part players, occasionally as the main protagonist.
Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 0 The Dawning of the Tenth Wave: A Prologue to the Eight Essays
- Chapter 1 Of Villages and Tribes: Settlement Patterns in the Bronze and Iron Ages
- Chapter 2 See, The Conquering Bureaucrat Comes: Roman-British Settlement Patterns c. 150 AD
- Chapter 3 To Be Then Not To Be: The Demise of the Hamlet in England 850–1086
- Chapter 4 A Small Town in Gloucestershire: Cirencester and the International Wool Trade
- Chapter 5 Travels with Mr Defoe and Some Others: Journeys Through Britain’s Pre-Industrial Settlement Patterns
- Chapter 6 Towards Hyper-Polycentricity: Or What a Giant Fungus Can Teach Us About Settlement Patterns
- Chapter 7 The Uses of Consolatory Fables: How Computer Models Can Help Us Understand Settlement Patterns
- Chapter 8 Biography of an Island Foretold
- Bibliography
- Index
Planning Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi’s urban development path contrasts sharply with its exuberant neighbour, Dubai.
Abu Dhabi’s urban development path contrasts sharply with its exuberant neighbour, Dubai. As Alamira Reem puts it, Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates since 1971, ‘has been quietly devising its own plans … to manifest its role and stature as a capital city’.
As a native Abu Dhabian and urban planner and researcher, who has studied emirate’s development for more than a decade, is uniquely placed to write its urban history. Following the introduction and description of Abu Dhabi’s early modern history, she focuses on three distinct periods dating from the discovery of oil in 1960, and coinciding with periods in power of the three rulers since then: Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1960–1966), Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (1966–2004), and Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (2004–). Based on archival research, key interviews and spatial mapping, she analyses the different approaches of each ruler to development; investigates the role of planning consultants, architects, developers, construction companies and government agencies; examines the emergence of comprehensive development plans and the policies underlying them; and assesses the effects of these many and varied influences on Abu Dhabi’s development. She concludes that, while much still needs to be done, Abu Dhabi’s progress towards becoming a global, sustainable city provides lessons for cities elsewhere.
Alamira Reem Bani Hashim has a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. The first Emirati woman to be awarded a PhD in Planning, she is a professional planner and researcher.
Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1: The Construction of an Urban Past
- The Scope of the Book
- Existing Literature and Contribution
- Structure of the Book
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Chapter 2: From the Hinterland to the Coast: Origins of an Urban Identity (1761–1960)
- Early Settlement
- Tribes in the Sheikhdom
- The Traditional Economy
- Increasing British Interests
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Chapter 3: Maintaining the Status Quo (1960–1966)
- Shakhbut’s Abu Dhabi: A Bedouin Town
- The Foundations of Modern Governance
- Plans of the Experts: An Oil Export Station
- Arish Village
- New Era, New Man
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Chapter 4: The Emergence of a Modern City (1966–2004)
- Sheikh Zayed’s Abu Dhabi: Green, Modern, and for the People
- New Government
- Plans of the Experts: Human City, Modern City
- The Modern City Built Twice Over
- Son of a Bedouin, Father of a Nation
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Chapter 5: Building the Global, Sustainable Arab Capital City (2004–2016)
- Sheikh Khalifa’s New Vision for Abu Dhabi and the Sharing of Responsibilities with Sheikh Mohammed
- Abu Dhabi’s New Economy and Government Restructuring
- Plan Abu Dhabi 2030: The Smooth-Flowing Human Eco-City
- Abu Dhabi Metropolitan
- Towards Abu Dhabi Vision 2030
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Chapter 6: Conclusion
- A Lesson in Planning
- Appendix A: Methodology
- Appendix B: Interview List
- Appendix C: Al Nahyan Family Tree
- Appendix D: Abu Dhabi Areas Map
- Appendix E: New and Upcoming Developments (2004–present)
- References
- Index
Trajectories of Conflict and Peace: Jerusalem and Belfast Since 1994
Creating peace for a city’s intimate enemies is harder than making war.
This book is about the trajectories of urban conflict and peace in the politically polarized cities of Jerusalem and Belfast since 1994 – how sometimes there has been hopeful change while at other times debilitating stasis and regression. Based on extensive research, fieldwork, and interviews, Scott Bollens shows how seeking peace in these cities is shaped by the interaction of city-based actors and national elites, and that it is not just a political process, but a social and spatial one that takes place problematically over an extended period. He intertwines academic precision with ethnography and personal narrative to illuminate the complex political and emotional kaleidoscopes of these polarized cities. With hostility and competition among groups defined by ethnic, religious, and nationalistic identity on the increase across the world, this timely investigation contributes to our understanding of today’s fractured cities and nations.
Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 National and Urban Co-Production of Conflict and Peace
- Chapter 2 Jerusalem I: Urban Spatial Changes amid Political Impasse
- Chapter 3 Jerusalem II: Interlocking Trajectories of National Politics and Urban Dynamics
- Chapter 4 Jerusalem III: The Self-Perpetuating Cycle of Israeli Hegemonic Territoriality
- Chapter 5 Belfast I: Building Peace in a Post-Violent Conflict City
- Chapter 6 Belfast II: Peacebuilding as Process: Disrupted Trajectories and Urban Outcomes
- Chapter 7 Belfast III: The Competing Demands of Political Stability and Urban Peacebuilding
- Chapter 8 Conflict and Peace: Political and Spatial Trajectories
- Interviews
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 condition. A steep and contorted terrain has ensured that built-up areas are compact, rich in spatial experience, rarely far from hills and water; and connected by an array of public transport that is second to none.
The three authors of The Making of Hong Kong see value in these conditions – a metropolis with a small urban footprint, 90 per cent use of public transport for vehicular journeys, and proximity to nature. Though the compact city is a model that is frequently advocated by urban thinkers, it is one rarely encountered. Here, the evolution of Hong Kong’s intense urbanism is traced from the region’s pre-colonial walled settlements and colonial shop-houses to the contemporary vertical and volumetric metropolis of towers, podia-and-towers, decks, bridges, escalators and other components of multi-level city living. On a site bedevilled by an acute shortage of flat land, Hong Kong is portrayed as the ‘accidental pioneer of a new kind of urbanism’ that commands the thoughtful attention of a wider world.
Barrie Shelton is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Justyna Karakiewicz is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Thomas Kvan is Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Contents
- 1. A State of IntenCity
- 2. Precedents
- 3. Long, Low and Intense: From Possession Point to World War II
- 4. Massing and Rising: The Post-War Decades
- 5. Vertical and Volumetric: Post 1980
- 6. Podium and Tower
- 7. Emerging Volumetric: Components
- 8. Conclusion: Vertical and Volumetric
- Addendum: Advancing the Volumetric on Old District and New Territory Sites
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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 city, a place full of aspirations, struggles, and encounters taking place in all sorts of settings. It represents, he argues, a new form of urbanity, which cannot be explored by looking only at spectacular developments. One must move into the lesser known spaces of Dubai’s traditional neighbourhoods for they constitute the essence of the city and where its unique urban experiment is played out.
Following a theoretical review setting Dubai within the current discussion about globalization, Elsheshtawy presents a photo essay, so introducing the reader to the city, its places and its people. He then explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel writing, personal and press accounts, and his own experiences to bring colour to his description of the city’s development. He considers the role of planning in shaping Dubai’s urban morphology and in creating a global city. Next, his attention turns to the city’s megaprojects and its spectacular – and not so spectacular – retail environment, and then to the ‘forgotten urban spaces’, the meeting and living places of the low-income migrant community. And finally he looks at the influence of ‘the Dubai model’ and its durability, both in its birth place and in those cities where it is being emulated.
Yasser Elsheshtawy is Associate Professor or Architecture at the United Arab Emirates, University, Al Ain.
Contents
Preface
1. The Emerging Urbanity of Dubai
2. Arab Cities and Globalization
3. The Other Dubai: A Photo Essay
4. The Illusive History of Dubai
5. The Transformation of Dubai or Towards the Age of Megastructures
6. Spectacular Architecture and Urbanism
7. The Spectacular and the Everyday: Dubai’s Retail Landscape
8. Transient City: Dubai’s Forgotten Urban Spaces
9. Global Dubai or Dubaization
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 condition. A steep and contorted terrain has ensured that built-up areas are compact, rich in spatial experience, rarely far from hills and water; and connected by an array of public transport that is second to none.
The three authors of The Making of Hong Kong see value in these conditions – a metropolis with a small urban footprint, 90 per cent use of public transport for vehicular journeys, and proximity to nature. Though the compact city is a model that is frequently advocated by urban thinkers, it is one rarely encountered. Here, the evolution of Hong Kong’s intense urbanism is traced from the region’s pre-colonial walled settlements and colonial shop-houses to the contemporary vertical and volumetric metropolis of towers, podia-and-towers, decks, bridges, escalators and other components of multi-level city living. On a site bedevilled by an acute shortage of flat land, Hong Kong is portrayed as the ‘accidental pioneer of a new kind of urbanism’ that commands the thoughtful attention of a wider world.
Barrie Shelton is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Justyna Karakiewicz is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Thomas Kvan is Professor and Dean in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne
Contents
1. A State of IntenCity
2. Precedents
3. Long, Low and Intense: From Possession Point to World War II
4. Massing and Rising: The Post-War Decades
5. Vertical and Volumetric: Post 1980
6. Podium and Tower
7. Emerging Volumetric: Components
8. Conclusion: Vertical and Volumetric
Addendum: Advancing the Volumetric on Old District and New Territory Sites
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