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Transport For Humans: Are We Nearly There Yet? by Pete Dyson
RRP: $19.34$17.20Engineers plan transport systems, people use them. But the ways in which an engineer measures success - speed, journey time, efficiency - are often not the way that passengers think about a good trip. We are not cargo. We choose how and when to travel,... -
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton
RRP: $14.18$9.35Traversing the nation, Municipal Dreams offers an architectural tour of some of the best and most remarkable of our housing estates, and in doing so offers an engrossing social history of housing in Britain. John Broughton asks us to understand better... -
The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: $25.80$17.88"...a fascinating barometer of the state of the nation right now, in the wake of austerity, Brexit and Covid." - Travis Elborough England's seaside is made up of a striking variety of coastlines including cliffs, coves, pebbled shore, wide sandy... -
Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South: Intersectionality, Inequalities, and Community by Andrea Rigon
RRP: $47.72$41.96Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South emphasizes the importance of the neighbourhood in urban development planning, with case studies aimed at transforming current intervention practices towards more inclusive and just means of engagement with... -
Strathclyde Traction by Colin J. Howat
RRP: $19.34$12.51Strathclyde Traction covers the former Strathclyde Region Council area of the west of Scotland, stretching from the southern end of the Western Highlands to the Southern Uplands, which was formed by merging the city of Glasgow with the counties of Ayr,... -
Public Health Spatial Planning in Practice: Improving Health and Wellbeing by Michael Chang
RRP: $38.69$29.70Health and wellbeing are significantly influenced by how professionals plan, design and manage the environment. This book supports those working in the built environment and public health sectors, with the knowledge and insight to maximise health... -
The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities by Gordon McGranahan
RRP: $51.59$45.23Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up this emerging agenda and analyses the key issues in a refreshingly simple yet... -
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future - Lessons from the World's Limits by Richard Davies
RRP: $15.47$10.87*Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019**Winner of Debut Writer of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020**Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019*'Extreme Economies is a revelation -... -
Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population: Improving Pedestrian Mobility for Older People by Charles Musselwhite 9781839827457
RRP: $61.91$51.63Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and demonstrates how to overcome them. Drawing on research carried out across the globe, and framed around Bourdieu's... -
A Practical Guide to Highways Planning & Development by Tom Graham 9780993583698
RRP: $64.50$56.45The only book out there to draw together all the disparate law on highways in development projects Managing and providing highways and highway improvements looms large in many building projects but the law and rules regulating their part in the planning... -
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital by Sam Bright
RRP: $12.89$8.57A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today. 'Intelligently written and powerfully argued.' Paul Mason 'Witty, scathing, and entertaining... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven 9781399414012
RRP: $16.76$11.73"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the... -
The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK by Adam Sheppard
RRP: $32.24$25.01This is the first textbook to provide a focused, subject specific guide to planning practice and law. It gives students essential background and contextual information to planning's statutory basis, supported by practical and applied discussion, enabling... -
The Caucasus: An Introduction by Thomas De Waal
RRP: $19.34$16.99In this new updated version of The Caucasus, Thomas de Waal introduces readers to this complex region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the breakaway territories that have tried to split away from them constitute one of the most diverse and challenging... -
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
RRP: $16.76$11.73London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English' John Lanchester, Daily TelegraphEncircling London... -
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities by Veronica Davis 9781642832099
RRP: $33.54$27.99Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the... -
Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis by Duncan Bowie 9781447328490
RRP: $15.47$12.15As housing supply in England reaches crisis point, Duncan Bowie provides a critical review of housing policy under successive UK Governments. Exploring the inter-relationship between housing, planning and land policies, Bowie puts forward a reform... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven
RRP: $25.80$19.84"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the... -
Social infrastructure and left behind places by John Tomaney 9781032710044
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in 'left-behind places'. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy... -
Grey-Green: Coaches & Buses by Andrew Mead
RRP: $19.34$12.51Andrew Mead offers a pictorial history of the Grey-Green company, who operated vehicles from the First World War until 2000. The company was formed as a haulage carrier by the Ewer family at the end of the nineteenth century in the East End of London... -
Alpha City: How the Super-Rich Captured London by Rowland Atkinson
RRP: $21.92$14.80How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of usWho owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Individuals and... -
The Short Guide to Town and Country Planning by Adam Sheppard
RRP: $20.63$16.58The fully updated Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides a concise introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with little or no prior knowledge. This second edition considers who planners are and what they do, showing how... -
The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence by Dr. Yvonne Rydin 9781447308409
RRP: $30.95$24.07For the past half-century, the planning system has operated on the basis of a growth-dependence paradigm. It has been based on market-led urban development and has sought to provide community benefits from a share of development profits. However, we do... -
Who Runs Edinburgh? by David McCrone
RRP: $19.34$16.19This book tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, its political economy and the rise of its status as Festival city. The book explores arguments about what sort of city Edinburgh should be and what it... -
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein
RRP: $12.89$8.57Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United... -
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
RRP: $25.79$21.80In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. These developments were largely organised by htosw who... -
Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich by Rowland Atkinson
RRP: $12.89$8.57Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Individuals and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals. Compared to New York or Tokyo, it has the largest number of... -
Are Trams Socialist?: Why Britain Has No Transport Policy by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $16.76$15.20We all use some form of transport almost every day of our lives. It is one of the most important factors in determining the economic wellbeing of a town or city. And it is also one of the major sources of environmental damage to our planet. Yet, Britain... -
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives by Chris Bruntlett
RRP: $30.95$25.94In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the cycling city as residents rather than as visitors. A year... -
Design with Nature Now by Frederick Steiner
RRP: $87.72$68.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558443938Author Frederick SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 351Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land... -
Interpreting the NPPF: The new National Planning Policy Framework by Alistair Mills 9781916431522
RRP: $51.60$45.43In July 2018 a revised National Planning Policy Framework was published, coming into effect immediately. First published in 2012, the NPPF is the primary expression of the Government's planning policies for England. The NPPF sets out a framework for... -
Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History by Leonie Sandercock
RRP: $34.83$26.61The history of planning is much more, according to these authors, than the recorded progress of planning as a discipline and a profession. These essays counter the mainstream narrative of rational, scientific development with alternative histories that... -
Every Place Matters: Towards Effective Place-Based Policy by Andrew Beer
RRP: $46.43$40.88Across the globe policy makers implement, and academics teach and undertake research upon, place-based policy. But what is place-based policy, what does it aspire to achieve, what are the benefits of place-based approaches relative to other forms of... -
Habitus: A Sense of Place by Emma Rooksby
RRP: $61.91$54.45Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, as a 'sense of one's place...a sense of the other's place'. It relates to our perceptions of the positions (or 'place') of ourselves and other people in the world in which we... -
Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: Power to the People? by Sue Brownill 9781447329503
RRP: $38.69$29.70A critical analysis of the latest innovation in planning and localism, with a particular focus on neighbourhood planning. Bringing together empirical evidence from the UK and including international examples from the US, Australia and France, the book... -
Space, Place and Gender by Doreen Massey 9780745612362
RRP: $24.50$21.76This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues. The book is... -
Roads, Runways and Resistance: From the Newbury Bypass to Extinction Rebellion by Steve Melia
RRP: $24.50$16.45'As a movement for social change it is important that we understand our own history. This is a compelling read.' From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. In... -
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood by Peter Moskowitz
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568589039Author Peter MoskowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
The purpose of planning: Creating sustainable towns and cities by Dr. Yvonne Rydin 9781847424303
RRP: $23.21$18.46Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is... -
Key Concepts in Planning by Gavin Parker 9781847870773
RRP: $50.30$40.34"I have been looking for a book which does this for ages! It provides a clear explanation of the different elements and concepts which underpin how the planning system works and which are fundamental to the operation of the UK system. It also provides...