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Making Use of Deleuze in Planning - Proposals for a speculative and immanent assessment method (Paperback): Gareth Abrahams Making Use of Deleuze in Planning - Proposals for a speculative and immanent assessment method (Paperback)
Gareth Abrahams
R1,492 Discovery Miles 14 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuze's most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable planning assessment tool. It shows what his philosophy can do for planning theory as well as planning assessment practice and, in doing so, sets out a pragmatic approach to Deleuzian studies: one that helps form bridges between ontological problems and the problems found in professional practice. It also breaks new ground in assessment methodology by challenging the essentialist ideas underpinning assessment methods like BREEAM and setting out and testing a new form of non-essentialist assessment named SIAM. The book argues that Deleuze's philosophy can be made useful to planning as long as one is prepared to adapt and re-create his key ontological concepts to respond to the specific demands of the field.

Culture and Security - Multilateralism, Arms Control and Security Building (Paperback, annotated edition): Keith R. Krause Culture and Security - Multilateralism, Arms Control and Security Building (Paperback, annotated edition)
Keith R. Krause
R1,499 Discovery Miles 14 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The increasingly multilateral and regional nature of security building has given great prominence to cross-cultural aspects of international dialogue. The case studies in this collection examine how and when cultural elements affect arms control and security-building negotiations and policies. They treat issues such as religious, communal and normative orientations towards war and peace; the impact of legacies of conflict, colonialism and state building; attitudes towards regional and multilateral relations; cultural styes of diplomacy and negotiation; the nature of civil-military relations; the societal outlooks on authority, violence and conflict management. Discussing a range of states and regions - the East-West experience, Latin America, China, Southeast Asia, India and the Arab-Israeli conflict - the contributors elaborate a concept of security culture that draws together the diplomatic, political, strategic and social elements athat influence seurity policy-making.

Topothesia - Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess (Paperback): Ameeth Vijay Topothesia - Planning, Colonialism, and Places in Excess (Paperback)
Ameeth Vijay
R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Topothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial division—continues ideologies of place established in colonial contexts. Specifically, planning allows for the speculative construction of future places that are both utopian in their ability to resolve political disagreement and at the same tantalizingly realizable, able to be produced in concrete reality. This speculative imaginary, I argue, is only possible within the ideological framework of colonialism and the history of empire within which it developed. Topothesia refers to a rhetorical device employing the vivid depiction of an often-imaginary place. This device, Vijay shows, helps us understand urban planning as a narrative genre, one that, even in its most mundane documents, is compelled to produce elaborate fantasies of future places. The book examines specific planning movements over time to understand the form and the stakes of their speculative worlds. In building these worlds, the book shows, planners continually coopted literary critiques of the present and reveries of the future, retaining literature's aesthetics while eschewing its politics. At the same time, Vijay shows, writers and artists have dwelled within and against these colonial imaginaries to seek other means of representing place.

Placemaking - The Art and Practice of Building Communities (Paperback): LH Schneekloth Placemaking - The Art and Practice of Building Communities (Paperback)
LH Schneekloth
R2,128 Discovery Miles 21 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Placemaking is the way in which all human beings transform the places they find themselves into the places where they live."

In this groundbreaking new book, landscape architect Lynda H. Schneekloth and architect and planner Robert G. Shibley challenge the most fundamental assumptions about the ways human beings transform the places in which they live. A call to action for a more inclusive, democratic approach to the design of human spaces, the authors use stories from their own practice to cast a new light on the relationship between communities, design professionals, and the shaping of their physical "places." The stories they tell reveal techniques for generating a collaborative spirit that will help designers, planners, and community development professionals understand the human values that lie at the heart of their professions.

"To decide to be someplace as members of a community demands that we become active placemakers again, that we participate with others in our communities in thoughtful, careful responsible action."

The death of Main Street, the blight of the inner city, the sterility of so much contemporary development—these are effects of a major disconnection between the human community and the built environment. At no time in the history of our society has there been a more urgent need to take a hard look at how we create physical environments. In response to this unmet need and moral confusion, Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities calls for a more dynamic, more inclusive design process and demonstrates new placemaking practices that have emerged from different communities and environments.

"Placemaking is the way in which all human beings transform the places they find themselves into the places where they live."

Drawing on four actual "stories" from their own professional practice, the authors show how empowered communities, working in a true democratic collaboration with planning and architecture professionals, can create places which not only support work and play, but also help foster relationships between people. These stories represent a broad range of communities and physical environments:

The First Baptist Church of Roanoke, Virginia—in rebuilding its church, a community struggles to define itself and the role of the church building within the community

The International Banking Institute—a story of change in the workplace, group dynamics, and the ability of an organization to learn about itself

The Roanoke Neighborhood Partnership—the creation of a new, more collaborative relationship between neighborhood people, city government, the private sector, and design professionals

The Rudy Bruner Award Program—an examination of what makes an "excellent" place and how the creative ability of communities can transform problems into successful projects

"Placemaking consists of those daily acts of renovating, maintaining, and representing the places that sustain us . . ."

In telling these stories, the authors demonstrate how certain practices—making a "dialogic space," "the dialectic of confirmation and interrogation," and "framing action"—can be used to create, transform, maintain, and renovate the places in which people live.

Placemaking: The Art and Practice of Building Communities is a truly visionary work that has its foundation in the daily lives of specific people and places. Its publication is bound to spark a long overdue controversy among architects, planners, designers, and all people concerned with the well-being of communities.

Town Planning into the 21st Century (Hardcover): Andy Blowers, Bob Evans Town Planning into the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Andy Blowers, Bob Evans
R6,277 Discovery Miles 62 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable to provide satisfactory policy responses in the future. Key themes debated include:
* widening the remit of traditional town planning * giving land and buildings a community value
* acting for people rather than simply for the market
* promoting an equalization of environmental conditions and discouragement of motorization
* the need to anticipate long term global trends at the local and national level.
Contributors: Andrew Blowers, Bob Colenutt, Richard Cowell, Bob Evans, Cliff Hague, Peter Hall, Susan Owens, Eric Reade, Yvonne Rydin.

Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Tom Turner Landscape Planning And Environmental Impact Design (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Tom Turner
R7,089 R5,845 Discovery Miles 58 450 Save R1,244 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A series of texts on environmental planning for use in undergraduate and postgraduate planning courses and for those involved in all aspects of the planning process. This book is intended for students of town and country planning.

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach (Hardcover): Paul M. Lerner Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach (Hardcover)
Paul M. Lerner
R3,469 Discovery Miles 34 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Few books illuminate a domain of clinical inquiry as superbly as Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach. Paul Lerner has written a comprehensive text that offers a richly detailed, multidimensional vision of the Rorschach as the ideal medium for operationalizing, testing, and in some instances transforming contemporary clinical theory.
For psychoanalytic therapists, the book provides a fascinating overview of how the coevolution of psychoanalytic theory and Rorschach technique has created new possibilities for conceptual integration. Lerner explores recent advances in our ability to operationalize such clinical concepts as splitting, dissociation, and false-self organization. He then reviews how these advances have been applied to research into psychic organization across different diagnostic categories, including anorexia and bulimia, aggressive and psychopathic personality, and schizotypal disorders. Finally, Lerner shows how the resulting data offer a unique vantage point from which to clarify such critical topics as developmental object relations and the structure of primitive experience.
Rorschach scholars will appreciate Lerner's informed discussions of theorists as diverse as Rapaport and Schachtel, Exner and Mayman, Schafer and Leichtman. Rorschach students, for their part, will find the book an unusually lucid introduction to test administration, scoring, interpretation, and report writing. Even here, however, Lerner's breadth and originality are apparent, for his exposition of these testing fundamentals incorporates fresh discussions of the nature of the Rorschach test, the impact of the patient-examiner relationship, and the value of the test in treatment planning. Timely, definitive, and uniquely integrative, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach will be valued by students, clinicians, and researchers well into the next century.

The People's Home? - Social Rented Housing in Europe and America (Paperback): M. Harloe The People's Home? - Social Rented Housing in Europe and America (Paperback)
M. Harloe
R988 Discovery Miles 9 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"This is a big book in every sense: spirit, vision and coverage. It is an impressive piece of scholarship which will become a marker for all studies of housing and related policy issues. This is the first really comprehensive attempt to discuss the history of housing policy issues in the context of the political and economic processes of the last 150 years. It is the best piece of sustained comparative research I know of in the field. It should be of interest to those in various fields of social policy studies as well as housing. Scholars, policy makers and administrators will simply have to read this book. Its breadth and depth of coverage, and the sophistication of its exploration of theoretical issues, confirm Harloe as one of the major social scientists in housing and related areas of study." - Patrick Troy, Australian National University."The People's Home" examines the development of social rented housing over the last hundred years in Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and the USA. It is based on 15 years of research in these countries and a challenging analysis of the socio-economic and political determinants of social housing provision. Rejecting previous comparative studies, which focus narrowly on the immediate determinants of housing provision, "The People's Home" shows how social housing policies and outcomes have been shaped by broader societal forces - political conflict, economic modernisation, and, most recently, the growth of inequality and social polarization. This important book ends by discussing the implications of this analysis for recent theories of welfare state development, or regimes of 'welfare capitalism', and for the nature of state housing policies in such societies.

Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems - Models of Complexity (Paperback): Peter M. Allen Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems - Models of Complexity (Paperback)
Peter M. Allen
R1,804 Discovery Miles 18 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A clear methodological and philosophical introduction to complexity theory as applied to urban and regional systems is given, together with a detailed series of modelling case studies compiled over the last couple of decades. Based on the new complex systems thinking, mathematical models are developed which attempt to simulate the evolution of towns, cities, and regions and the complicated co-evolutionary interaction there is both between and within them. The aim of these models is to help policy analysis and decision-making in urban and regional planning, energy policy, transport policy, and many other areas of service provision, infrastructure planning, and investment that are necessary for a successful society.

Urban Planning and the British New Right (Hardcover): Philip Allmendinger, Huw Thomas Urban Planning and the British New Right (Hardcover)
Philip Allmendinger, Huw Thomas
R5,347 R4,489 Discovery Miles 44 890 Save R858 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nearly 20 years after Mrs Thatcher first came to power the debate over the significance of what has been termed the New Right continues. Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning and other areas of the public sector as some have claimed or were reports of their demise premature? This book tackles this and other questions. Experts in a wide range of land use policy areas examine the changes that were brought about during the 1980s and 1990s in planning and the environment, and argue that much less was achieved than expected. There is little doubt that New Right policy has had a major influence on the shape and direction of British politics. The planning system reacted to these changes in a way that altered or diluted centrally directed proposals. How this came about tells us as much about the shape and power of local planning in the UK as it does about the ability of central government to impose its preferred policies. Urban planning and the British New Right says as much about the administration, institutions and processes of planning as it does about Mrs Thatcher's attempts to change it.

Cityports, Coastal Zones & Regional Change - International Perspectives on Planning Management (Hardcover): B. Hoyle Cityports, Coastal Zones & Regional Change - International Perspectives on Planning Management (Hardcover)
B. Hoyle
R7,629 Discovery Miles 76 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Even in the late 20th Century, there remains a complex web of spatial inter-relationships linking port cities and coastal zones. Cityports, Coastal Zones and Regional Change brings together seventeen authors to explore aspects of these inter-relationships. Many of the chapters were first discussed at an intensive British-Italian Seminar held in Venice in 1994 and have subsequently been substantially revised, edited and updated. The essential focus of the book is on the role of port cities in the development and management of the coastal zones within which they are located. There is a strong emphasis on environmental issues, economic diversification and planning. While most of the numerous case studies featured are British or Italian, other areas represented include Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Tropical Africa and North America. An overview of cityports and coastal zones in the context of sustainable development provides a timely and forward looking conclusion, and makes the book ideal for researchers and students of transport geography, urban geography, port studies and coastal zone management worldwide.

Against the Commons - A Radical History of Urban Planning (Paperback): Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago Against the Commons - A Radical History of Urban Planning (Paperback)
Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
R839 R697 Discovery Miles 6 970 Save R142 (17%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge. Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries. Against the Commons underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.

Urban Playgrounds - Athletes Claim Cities Around the World (Hardcover): Gestalten, Benevento Urban Playgrounds - Athletes Claim Cities Around the World (Hardcover)
Gestalten, Benevento
R1,428 R1,085 Discovery Miles 10 850 Save R343 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Urban Land and Property Markets in Sweden (Hardcover): Thomas Kalbro, Hans Mattsson Urban Land and Property Markets in Sweden (Hardcover)
Thomas Kalbro, Hans Mattsson
R2,623 R2,367 Discovery Miles 23 670 Save R256 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1995, Land and Property Markets in Sweden looks at the growing demand for an understanding of the urban land and property markets in Sweden. The book offers detailed accounts of the policy, legislative, and regulatory frameworks of urban land and property markets in Sweden, explaining how the markets operate and interact with the planning systems. It also incorporates a review of the second-home market, which is particularly well developed in Sweden. Fully detailed case studies are included to illustrate land development issues and the processes of purchase and sale of properties.

Battery Park City - Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront (Paperback): David L.A. Gordon Battery Park City - Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront (Paperback)
David L.A. Gordon
R1,485 Discovery Miles 14 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979.
Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.

Introducing Urban Design - Interventions and Responses (Paperback): Clara Greed, Marion Roberts Introducing Urban Design - Interventions and Responses (Paperback)
Clara Greed, Marion Roberts
R2,665 Discovery Miles 26 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed. The dynamic new subject and profession of urban design straddles the fields of town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning. This book recognises that a key feature of modern urban design practice is the ability to integrate a concern with the visual and aesthetic aspects of urban form, with a strong social awareness of the need of user groups, plus a sensitivity to wider environmental and sustainability issues. In this it continues the themes already introduced in earlier volumes, such as the changing nature of the profession, social problems and the means of implementing policy. Written by a team of eminent urban designers, architects and planners under the joint editorship of Clara Greed and Marion Roberts, the book introduces the reader to the subject through a discussion of current issues, approaches and user responses. Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is an ideal resource for undergraduate courses in town planning, architecture, landscape architecture, estate management and housing studies. It is also suitable as an introductory text for first year diploma and masters programmes in urban design and suitable for RTPI, RICS, CIOH, CIOB, ASI, ISVA and RIBA courses and will be of interest to professional practioners in the urban design field.

Regional Development Theories & Their Application (Paperback, New Ed): Benjamin Higgins Regional Development Theories & Their Application (Paperback, New Ed)
Benjamin Higgins
R1,502 Discovery Miles 15 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Throughout the world today former nation-states, as disparate as Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Canada, have either disintegrated or threaten to splinter into regions. The conflicts are economic, social, ethnic, linguistic, religious, political, and cultural. Higgins and Savoie analyze the reasons for these conflicts and show why attempts to eliminate regional disparities within nations have been largely unsuccessful. This volume is a highly readable, comprehensive survey of the literature and current debates in the fields of regional economics, development, policy, and planning.

The Experience of Modernism - Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53 (Paperback): John R. Gold The Experience of Modernism - Modern Architects and the Future City, 1928-53 (Paperback)
John R. Gold
R2,376 Discovery Miles 23 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Making extensive use of information gained from in-depth interviews with architects active in the period between 1930-1959, the author provides a sympathetic understanding of the modern movement's architectural role in reshaping the fabric and structure of British metropolitan cities in the post-war period and traces the links between the experience of British modernists and the wider international modern movement. This book should be of interest to academics in architecture; urban design; urban geography; architecture of planning history; geography; sociology; practising architects; urban designers; and planners.

Windows Upon Planning History (Hardcover): Karl Friedhelm Fischer, Uwe Altrock Windows Upon Planning History (Hardcover)
Karl Friedhelm Fischer, Uwe Altrock
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Windows Upon Planning History delves into a wide range of perspectives on urbanism from Europe, Australia and the USA to investigate the effects of changing perceptions and different ways of seeing cities and urban regions. Fischer, Altrock and a team of 13 distinguished authors examine how and why the ideologies and the processes of city making changed in modern and post-modern times. Illustrated with over 45 images, the themes addressed in the book range from the changing outlook on Berlin's historic apartment districts and their demolition, salvation and gentrification to how planning was deployed to support dictatorship; from the shattering of myths like democracies totally departing from preceding dictatorships to the model of the post-war modern city and its fate towards the end of the twentieth century. The volume combines case studies of cities on three continents with reflections on the historiography and the state of planning history. With a foreword by Stephen V. Ward, this book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the histories of planning, architecture and cities.

Contention and Trust in Cities and States (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.): Michael Hanagan, Chris Tilly Contention and Trust in Cities and States (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
Michael Hanagan, Chris Tilly
R4,412 Discovery Miles 44 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The catalyst for this book is the fact that noted sociologist Charles Tilly, upon his death in 2008, left one completed chapter of an unfinished manuscript entitled Cities, States, and Trust Networks, examining the relationships between cities and nation-states over the sweep of history, and in particular the role of trust networks in mediating this relationship. Though this was the catalyst, the book serves a broader purpose: to survey recent frontier work on cities, nation-states, and the relations between the two in historical and contemporary perspective.

Essays in the book will address four main themes: city-state relations, trust networks and commitment, democracy and inequality, and the importance of historical legacies in shaping state structures, practices, and capacities. They will be global in scope, with research on the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa; a number of the pieces will be comparative. They will also be interdisciplinary, including works of geography, history, political science, sociology, urban planning.

The book addresses several confluent needs of readers. One is to simply update themes addressed in earlier edited work such as "Bringing the State Back In "(1985). A second is to bring together current thinking about cities on the one hand and nation-states on the other, literatures that are often segregated from each other. A third is to perform those two purposes in a way that is global in scope and combines both historical and current analyses, to pull together insights from the full range of human experience.

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism - Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture (Paperback): Camillo Boano The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism - Critical encounters between Giorgio Agamben and architecture (Paperback)
Camillo Boano
R1,490 Discovery Miles 14 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Ethics of a Potential Urbanism explores the possible and potential relevance of Giorgio Agamben's political thoughts and writings for the theory and the practice of architecture and urban design. It sketches out the potentiality of Agamben's politics, which can affect change in current architectural and design discourses. The book investigates the possibility of an inoperative architecture, as an ethical shift for a different practice, just a little bit different, but able to deactivate the sociospatial dispositive and mobilize a new theory and a new project for the urban now to come. This particular reading from Agamben's oeuvre suggests a destituent mode of both thinking and practicing of architecture and urbanism that could possibly redeem them from their social emptiness, cultural irrelevance, economic reductionism and proto-avant-garde extravagance, contributing to a renewed critical 'encounter' with architecture's aesthetic-political function.

Regenerating the Inner City - Glasgow's Experience (Hardcover): David Donnison, Alan Middleton Regenerating the Inner City - Glasgow's Experience (Hardcover)
David Donnison, Alan Middleton
R2,882 R2,608 Discovery Miles 26 080 Save R274 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow's East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave. This is reflected across the western world, and causes severe blows to cities where these industries are located. The book draws on Glasgow's Eastern Area Renewal Scheme, the first big urban renewal project in Britain. The contributors to the volume come from a range of disciplines and form practical conclusions for policy-makers, and community activists. The book uses door-to-door surveys in Glasgow's east end, and interviews with community groups to gain an authentic understanding of the issue.

Development Control (Paperback): Keith Thomas Development Control (Paperback)
Keith Thomas
R1,798 Discovery Miles 17 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects. Drawing widely on the literature - the approach and treatment are very much geared to the needs of students on courses, rather than focusing on practical and "how-to-do-it" issues. It should be of interest to students in schools of planning, the built environment, estate management, land economy and other related subjects.

The Towns of Roman Britain (Paperback, New ed of 2 Revised ed): John Wacher The Towns of Roman Britain (Paperback, New ed of 2 Revised ed)
John Wacher
R1,651 R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Save R301 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edition of the text has been rewritten and re-illustrated to take account of the extensive new excavations and interpretations that have taken place since the book was first published twenty years ago. The central section of the text covers the origin, development, public and private buildings, fortifications, character and demise of each of the twenty-one major towns of the province: the provincial capital of London; the coloniae - Colchester, Lincoln, Gloucester and York; the first civitas capitals - Canterbury, Verulamium and Chelmsford; from client kingdoms to civitas - Caister-by-Norwich, Chichester, Silchester and Winchester; Flavian expansion - Cirencester, Dorchester, Exeter, Leicester and Wroxeter; and Hadrianic stimulation - Caerwent, Carmarthen, Brough-on-Humber and Aldborough. The introductory chapters address the general questions of definition and urbanization, while the concluding chapter examines the reasons for the decay and final demise.

Town Planning into the 21st Century (Paperback): Andy Blowers, Bob Evans Town Planning into the 21st Century (Paperback)
Andy Blowers, Bob Evans
R1,971 Discovery Miles 19 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium. Leading experts outline the changing context for land use and environmental policy in Britain and explain why the existing processes and profession of town planning are likely to be unable to provide satisfactory policy responses in the future. Key themes debated include:
* widening the remit of traditional town planning * giving land and buildings a community value
* acting for people rather than simply for the market
* promoting an equalization of environmental conditions and discouragement of motorization
* the need to anticipate long term global trends at the local and national level.
Contributors: Andrew Blowers, Bob Colenutt, Richard Cowell, Bob Evans, Cliff Hague, Peter Hall, Susan Owens, Eric Reade, Yvonne Rydin.

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