Planning, History and Environment Series

Ordinary Places/Extraordinary Events

Citizenship, Democracy and Public Space in Latin America

By Clara Irazábal

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

This book reveals the recent urban history of ten major Latin American cities – Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotá, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires – through studies of their public spaces and the events that have taken place there. The case studies...

Published February 25th 2015 by Routledge

Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires

Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe

Edited by Emily Gunzburger Makas, Tanja Damljanovic Conley

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

This book explores the planning and architectural histories of the cities across Central and Southeastern Europe transformed into the cultural and political capitals of the new nationstates created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In their introduction, editors Makaš and Conley...

Published January 25th 2015 by Routledge

Planning the Great Metropolis

The 1929 regional plan of New York and its environs

By David A. Johnson

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

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 to this edition, the questions faced by the...

Published January 11th 2015 by Routledge

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

By Arturo Almandoz

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

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 began in the early twentieth century, when...

Published October 14th 2014 by Routledge

Twentieth-Century Suburbs

A Morphological Approach

By C.M.H Carr, J.W.R Whitehand

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 2001. The paperback released in 2014 is a reprint of the original** Garden suburbs were the almost universal form of urban growth in the English-speaking world for most of the twentieth century. Their introduction was probably the most fundamental...

Published September 11th 2014 by Routledge

The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

Edited by Sonia Hirt, Diane Zahm

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

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; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs...

Published September 8th 2014 by Routledge

The Making of Hong Kong

From Vertical to Volumetric

By Barrie Shelton, Justyna Karakiewicz, Thomas Kvan

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism. The authors describe how the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong came about; how the...

Published August 19th 2014 by Routledge

Sociable Cities

The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City, 2nd Edition

By Peter Hall, Colin Ward

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost...

Published May 22nd 2014 by Routledge

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?

A New Future for the Cottage Estates

By Martin Crookston

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden suburbs that already exist? Over the first six decades of the twentieth century, councils across Britain created a new and optimistic form of housing – the...

Published December 15th 2013 by Routledge

The Planning Imagination

Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning

Edited by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Nicholas Phelps, Robert Freestone

Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

Knighted in 1998 ‘for services to the Town and Country Planning Association’, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a ‘Pioneer in the Life of the Nation’, Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning....

Published September 19th 2013 by Routledge