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Implementing Sustainability: The New Zealand Experience by Caroline L. Miller 9780415495516
RRP: $107.23$93.05New Zealand's Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently. This book examines the lessons that can... -
Remaking Cities: Contradictions of the Recent Urban Environment by Alison Ravetz 9780415855952
RRP: $74.08$65.09This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975. Always a fine balance between central control and market forces, it was challenged by strains... -
Gated Communities: Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments by Samer Bagaeen 9780415830416
RRP: $105.28$91.40Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book... -
Social Housing, Disadvantage, and Neighbourhood Liveability: Ten Years of Change in Social Housing Neighbourhoods by Michelle Norris 9780415816403
RRP: $93.58$81.53In a groundbreaking longitudinal study, researches studied seven similar social housing neighbourhoods in Ireland to determine what factors affected their liveability. In this collection of essays, the same researchers return to these neighbourhoods ten... -
Tourism, Planning, and Community Development by Rhonda Phillips 9780415524322
RRP: $263.25$228.70The intersection of community development, tourism and planning is a fascinating one. Tourism has long been used as a development strategy, in both developed and developing countries, from the national to local levels. These approaches have typically... -
Making the Metropolitan Landscape: Standing Firm on Middle Ground by Jacqueline Tatom 9780415774109
RRP: $224.25$194.53The American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences. These created environments, which all may be called metropolitan landscapes, constantly challenge students and professionals in the... -
Strategic Spatial Projects: Catalysts for Change by Stijn Oosterlynck 9780415566841
RRP: $85.78$74.96Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it... -
Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge: A Case of Shadowboxing with Nature by Karen Trapenberg Frick 9780415736589
RRP: $263.25$228.70Winner of TransportiCA's September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the... -
Crossing Borders: International Exchange and Planning Practices by Prof. Patsy Healey 9780415558471
RRP: $105.28$92.18The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book. It raises questions about why and how some ideas and practices attract international attention, and about the invention... -
Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health: Open Space: People Space 2 by Catharine Ward Thompson 9780415549110
RRP: $263.25$229.48Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed... -
Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950 by Arturo Almandoz 9780415553087
RRP: $74.08$65.87In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe, and France in particular, shaped their culture, architecture... -
Community Development Approaches to Improving Public Health by Robert S. Ogilvie 9780415523134
RRP: $263.25$228.70As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases. It is unlikely that those... -
Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000s by Arturo Almandoz 9780415521529
RRP: $263.25$229.48In 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... -
Decision Support Systems in Urban Planning by Harry Timmermans 9780415514415
RRP: $58.48$51.95Urban planning processes have become increasingly complex and sophisticated. Decision support systems can be useful aids to decision-makers in their assessment of the impact of their decisions. This book, available in paperback for the first time,... -
The Urban Experience: A People-Environment Perspective by F. E. Brown 9780415514378
RRP: $85.78$75.74This book provides a representative selection of the highest quality papers submitted to the IAPS 13 conference held in Manchester in 1994. The papers are concerned with current research on the experience of living in cities and are drawn from developed,... -
Urban Regeneration: Property Investment and Development by J. N. Berry 9780415514286
RRP: $97.48$85.61This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process. It relates the physical, economic, financial and environmental aspects of urban change and development to the realities of... -
The Place of Home: English domestic environments, 1914-2000 by Richard Turkington 9780415514262
RRP: $85.78$74.96**This book was originally printed as a hardback in 1995. The paperback released in 2011 is a reprint of the original**A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses... -
European Valuation Practice: Theory and Techniques by A. Adair 9780415512114
RRP: $85.78$75.74The variability of valuation practice within Europe is perceived as a problem within the globalization of property. This edited textbook examines the practice of real estate valuation in selected countries in Europe. The focus is on countries with well... -
Quantifying Neighbourhood Effects: Frontiers and perspectives by Jorg Blasius 9780415478090
RRP: $263.25$229.48Many policies in several Western European countries and the U.S. aim to counter spatial concentrations of deprivation and create more socio-economically mixed residential areas. Such policies are founded on the belief that neighbourhoods have a strong... -
Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe by Emily Gunzburger Makas 9780415459433
RRP: $263.25$229.48This 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... -
Politics, Planning and Homes in a World City by Duncan Bowie 9780415486378
RRP: $105.28$91.40This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone's policies and their... -
Private Dwelling: Contemplating the Use of Housing by Peter King 9780415336215
RRP: $97.48$84.83Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy and security and allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers the nature of privacy but also how we choose to share our dwelling. The book discusses the... -
Housing Transformations: Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living by Bridget Franklin 9780415336192
RRP: $115.03$99.61Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining,... -
Barriers to Sustainable Transport: Institutions, Regulation and Sustainability by Piet Rietveld 9780415323628
RRP: $263.25$228.70The complexity of transportation systems and their negative social and environmental effects are today at the centre of attention. This book focuses on the impact of institutions and regulatory systems on transport systems and travel behaviour. While... -
From New Towns to Green Politics: Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1946-1990 by Dennis Hardy 9780415511742
RRP: $85.78$74.96**Please note that the 2011 paperback is an exact reprint of the original hardback which was released in 1991** From the 1940s to the 1990s From New Towns to Green Politics charts the course of successive issues and campaigns - from the... -
Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance by John Punter 9780415443036
RRP: $115.03$100.39Are Britain's cities attractive places in which to live, work and play? Asking that question, this is a critical review of how the design dimension of the Urban Renaissance strategy was developed and applied, based on expert academic assessments of... -
From Garden Cities to New Towns: Campaigning for Town and Country Planning 1899-1946 by Dennis Hardy 9780415511735
RRP: $85.78$75.74**Please note that the 2011 paperback is an exact reprint of the original hardback which was released in 1991**This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups. It raises questions about the capacity of... -
Transforming Parks and Protected Areas: Policy and Governance in a Changing World by Kevin Stuart Hanna 9780415374231
RRP: $263.25$229.48**This title was originally published in 2007. The version published in 2012 is a PB reprint of the original HB** The protection of natural resources and biodiversity through protected areas is increasingly based on ecological principles... -
Crime Prevention and the Built Environment by Ted Kitchen 9780415373258
RRP: $115.03$99.61With a comprehensive analysis, this book links theory, evidence and practical application to bridge gaps between planning, design and criminology. The authors investigate connections between crime prevention and development planning with an international... -
The Frightened Land: Land, Landscape and Politics in South Africa in the Twentieth Century by Jennifer Beningfield 9780415365932
RRP: $234.00$202.82An investigation into the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa, principally during the apartheid years, and the effects of these physical and conceptual barriers on the land. In contrast to the weight of literature focusing on... -
Unsustainable Transport: City Transport in the New Century by David Banister 9780415357906
RRP: $115.03$99.61This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The... -
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 1: The Framework and Protocols for Environmental Assessment by Stephen Curwell 9780415322140
RRP: $189.13$163.90Based on original research, this first volume of a set of groundbreaking new books sets out a framework for analyzing sustainable urban development and develops a set of protocols for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. Protocols... -
New Labour and Planning: From New Right to New Left by Phil Allmendinger 9780415597487
RRP: $224.25$193.75Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour's view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the... -
Planning, Law and Economics: The Rules We Make for Using Land by Prof. Dr. Barrie Needham 9780415343732
RRP: $234.00$202.04What rights does the state have over privately owned land? Why should some landowners be favoured over others? How can the practice of land-use planning be improved? This book addresses these essential questions and shows that the interests people... -
Urban Design Futures by Malcolm Moor 9780415318785
RRP: $126.73$110.25The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the... -
Urban Environmentalism: Global Change and the Mediation of Local Conflict by Peter Brand 9780415304801
RRP: $81.88$71.66A critical examination of urban policies and management practices used to make cities sustainable. With an international perspective, the book describes urban environmental agendas and how they arose in the context of globalization, urban economic... -
Regional Innovation Systems: The Role of Governances in a Globalized World by Philip Cooke 9780415303699
RRP: $140.38$121.78Since the first edition of this book in 1995, there has been a worldwide innovation-led economic boom and a subsequent slump, meaning enormous change has also occurred at the level of regional economies. The new edition registers this change and provides... -
Making European Space: Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity by Tim Richardson 9780415291927
RRP: $97.48$85.61Making European Space explores how future visions of Europe's physical space are being decisively shaped by transnational politics and power struggles, which are being played out in new multi-level arenas of governance across the European Union. At stake... -
Housing in the European Countryside: Rural Pressure and Policy in Western Europe by Nick Gallent 9780415288439
RRP: $50.68$44.91Housing in the European Countryside provides an overview of the housing pressures and policy challenges facing Europe, while highlighting critical differences. By drawing on contemporary research work of leading authors in the fields of housing studies,... -
Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research by Takehito Takano 9780415288446
RRP: $175.48$153.06Healthy Cites and Urban Policy Research is a collection of papers by leading experts from academia or international organisations who have been involved in the Healthy Cities Movement. It is the first academic work to combine public health with urban...