Planning History

Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid to be lumped together as a single, arbitrary group. Rather they make up the 'urban kaleidoscope' of the title, and the diversity of the six case-study cities here supports that contention. The authors, Arab scholars and architects local to the citi..

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Brings this key Dutch planner and theorist into reach for a wider research audience...

Nishiyama Uzo, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. The three articles translated here show how Nishiyama developed his theoretical models based on a social approach to architecture and planning, with a focus on land use and land control rather..

In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day...

Shaping the City takes on the key ideas facing the future of urban design...

Shaping the City takes on the key ideas facing the future of urban design...

Four key Tyrwhitt texts brought together in one place...

Berlin’s transformation since the fall of the Wall in 1989 has been due, in large measure, to skilful place marketing. Here Claire Colomb explores how various actors have worked over time to create new images and urban myths to ‘sell’ Berlin to investors, visitors, Germans and Berliners themselves. ..

Berlin’s transformation since the fall of the Wall in 1989 has been due, in large measure, to skilful place marketing. Here Claire Colomb explores how various actors have worked over time to create new images and urban myths to ‘sell’ Berlin to investors, visitors, Germans and Berliners themselves. ..

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Offers an insight into the flux of ideas that surrounded New Town development in the early 1960s...