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Taylor & Francis Understanding Urban Metabolism
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Taylor & Francis Integrated Water Resource Planning
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Taylor & Francis Designing Urban Transformation
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Taylor & Francis The Spacemakers Guide to Big Change
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Taylor & Francis The Spacemakers Guide to Big Change
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Taylor & Francis Good Cities Better Lives
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Taylor & Francis Good Cities Better Lives
Book SynopsisThis book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas? Urban Britain is not functioning as it should. Social inequalities and regional disparities show little sign of going away. Efforts to generate growth, and spread it to the poorer areas of cities, have failed dismally. Much new urban development and redevelopment is not up to standard. Yet there are cities in mainland Europe, which have set new standards of high-quality sustainable urban development. This book looks at these best-practice examples â in Germany, the Netherlands, France and Scandinavia, â and suggests ways in which the UK and other countries could do the same.The book is in three parts. Part 1 analyses the main issues for urban planning and development â in economic development and job generation, sustainable development, housing policy, transport and development mechanisms â and probes how practice in the UK has fallen short. Part Two embarks on a tour of best-practice cities in Europe, starting in Germany with the countryâs boosting of its citiesâ economies, moving to the spectacularly successful new housing developments in the Netherlands, from there to Franceâs integrated city transport, then to Scandinaviaâs pursuit of sustainability for its cities, and finally back to Germany, to Freiburg â the city that âdid it allâ. Part Three sums up the lessons of Part Two and sets out the key steps needed to launch a new wave of urban development and regeneration on a radically different basis.Trade Review[It] is already the book everyone is talking about as we see our cities’ planning departments decimated around us. It is a beacon of what is possible and gives hope. - Times Higher Education - Best books of 2013An acute analysis - Lord Andrew Adonis, Financial TimesIf you have ever wondered what a Catapult is or how it connects to the rest of the UK economy and political system, then this is the book for you. The writing is admirable and rich in human interest, with tales of multitasking French mayors, scandalous research disagreements and Scandi-noir all contributing to the integrity of the whole. - Flora Samuel, Times Higher EducationHall has a clear idea of what the planning discipline should be about: it should be grounded in an understanding of the real world; it should be informed by a deep knowledge of history and a sense of cultural possibility; and, above all, it should remain focused on improving lives. He is himself the consummate planner. - Ben Rogers, The Guardian"As usual, a book by Peter Hall takes a historic view, and is filled with erudite gems and facts. No doubt this self-designated city travelogue is addressed to urban designers." – Judith Ryser, Researcher, Journalist, Writer and Urban Affairs Consultant to Fundacion Metropoli, Madrid"In this book Peter Hall has distilled the wisdom of an illustrious academic career into an ambitious blueprint for future successful, sustainable, resilient and equitable places. In writing this normative vision Hall has passed on the baton and set down the challenge for the next generation of academics and practitioners, to attempt to surmount the governance and financial obstacles, and realise the vision of Good Cities, Better Lives." – David McGuinness, Northumbria UniversityGood Cities, Better Lives offers useful insights for policy makers, spatial planners and urban geographers. It is a timely and a stimulating read for anyone interested in understanding more about the current issues cities are facing. It provides a comprehensive set of inspiring examples of innovative and creative planning practice in the urban space. – Urban Studies, Eduardo Oliveira, University of Groningen, the Netherlands"I would not hesitate recommending this book as a ‘must have’ to anyone who is interested in urban and planning issues, including academics, students and policy-makers. It is a timely book that provides useful insights into how planning should be grounded in an understanding of reality that is informed by history and experiences with the aim of improving the lives of everyone. This book offers an excellent start to this project. Sadly, Sir Peter Hall passed away at the end of July 2014." – Housing Studies, Corina Buckenberger, Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, GermanyTable of ContentsBuilding the New Jerusalem: Five Challenges for Cities Part 1: Facing the Challenges 1. The First Challenge: Rebalancing Our Urban Economies 2. The Second Challenge: Building New HomesNot Enough New Homes 3. The Third Challenge: Linking People and PlacesLondon: From Classic Public Transport Metropolis to Mega-City Region 4. The Fourth Challenge: Living with Finite Resources 5. The Fifth Challenge: Fixing Broken Machinery Part 2: Learning From Model Cities: A Twenty-First-Century Grand Tour 6. Going on Tour 7. Boosting Economic Growth in Germany 8. Building Sustainable Suburbs in the Netherlands 9. France Uses Transport to Develop and Regenerate Cities 10. Conserving Resources in Scandinavia: Stockholm and Copenhagen–MalmöStockholm’s Planned Satellite Towns 11. Freiburg: The City That Did It All Part 3: Lessons from Europe 12. Learning the Lessons
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Taylor & Francis Street Computing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Green Infrastructure for Landscape Planning
Book SynopsisGreen infrastructure integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors and spaces in mixed-use and urban settings. Austin takes a broad look at green infrastructure concepts, research and case studies to provide the student and professional with processes, criteria and data to support planning, design and implementation.Key topics of the book include: The benefits of green infrastructure as a conservation and planning tool Requirements of ecosystem health Green infrastructure ecosystem services that contribute to human physical and psychological health Planning processes leading to robust green infrastructure networks Design of green infrastructure elements for multiple uses. The concept of ecosystem services is extensively developed in this book, including biological treatment of stormwater and wastewater, opportunities for recreation, urban agriculture and emersion in a naturalistic setting. It definesTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Physical and Psychological Health 3. Ecosystem Functions and Health 4. Ecosystem Services 5. Planning and Design Processes 6. Habitat and Ecological Corridors 7. Green Infrastructure Network 8. Stormwater Management and Treatment Services 9. Green Roofs 10. Integrating Community Agriculture into Green Infrastructure 11. Wastewater Treatment Wetlands 12. Stockholm – Green Infrastructure Case Study 13. Green Infrastructure in Context
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Taylor & Francis SubUrban Sexscapes
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Taylor & Francis Inclusive Urbanization
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Taylor & Francis Displaced by Disaster
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Taylor & Francis Airports Cities and Regions
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Taylor & Francis Critical Realism and Housing Research
Book SynopsisSince the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing. This phenomenon cannot be adequately explained with simple descriptions of key events, politics and housing outcomes. Critical Realism and Housing Studies pushes debate forward, arguing that a new ontological perspective is required to address fundamental issues in housing and comparative research. This book is clearly organized into three parts which: evaluate ontological and methodological alternatives for comparative housing research provide two historical case studies inspired by critical realist ontology compare the causal tendencies that explain diverging housing pathways in Australia and the Netherlands. Lawson proposes that we turn to critical realism for the solution. From this perspective the causal tendencies of complex, open and structured housing phenomena are Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Ontology, Methodology, Conceptual Issues 2. Ontology Matters 3. Methodology and Comparative Research 4. Alternative Theories for the Composition and Dynamics of Housing Provision 5. Postulating an Explanation for Housing Divergence Part 2: Diverging Housing Solutions: The Case Study Evidence 6. Explaining Divergent Tenure Patterns and Urban Form - The Australian Case of Low Density Home Ownership 7. Explaining Divergent Tenure Patterns and Urban for Part Three Part 3: Summary and Conclusions 8. Explaining and Comparing Housing 'Solutions'
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Taylor & Francis The Connected City
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Taylor & Francis Site Matters Design Concepts Histories and Strategies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Development and Planning Economy Environmental and resource issues
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Taylor & Francis Crime Prevention Through Housing Design
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Taylor & Francis Healthy Housing A practical guide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unhealthy Housing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Homes and Health
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Taylor & Francis The Garden City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Global Strategy for Housing in the Third Millennium Technology in the Third Millennium S
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Taylor & Francis Modern City Revisited
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Taylor & Francis Housing Design Quality
Book SynopsisThis book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders.In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Context for Delivering Quality 1. Housing Design Quality and Control: The Need for Research Inset 1. Essex County Council - The 'New' Essex Guide 2. Residential Design Control: History and Government Guidance up to 1997 Inset 2. Suffolk County Council - A New Generation Guide 3. The Design Debate and a New Framework for Control Inset 3. Cotswold District Council - Advocating a 'Cotswold Style' 4. The Speculative House: Product and Process Inset 4. North Norfolk District Council - Guiding Negotiation 5. The Fundamentals of Controlling Design Inset 5. Dacorum Borough Council - The Character Area Approach Part 2: Current Practice and Innovation in Control 6. Bridging the Professional Divide Inset 6. London Borough of Harrow - Achieving Suburban Distinctiveness 7. Residential Design Policy and Guidance: A Snapshot of Practice in the 1990s Inset 7. Manchester City Council - Hulme, The 'Design Code' Approach 8. Innovation in the Control of Residential Design Inset 8. Wycombe District Council - Development Briefing for Housing Part 3: The Challenge for Control 9. An Agenda for Delivering Housing Quality Inset 9: West Dorset District Council - The Footprint Solution 10. Towards a Residential Renaissance Inset 10. Sedgemoor District Council - Negotiating Quality Appendices Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Designing Exhibitions Museums Heritage Trade and World Fairs
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Taylor & Francis Complex Spatial Systems The Modelling Foundations of Urban and Regional Analysis
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Taylor & Francis 500 Tips for School Improvement
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Taylor & Francis Quantum City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Front to Back A Design Agenda for Urban Housing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd designoutcrime
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Taylor & Francis Urban Forms The Death and Life of the Urban Block
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Taylor & Francis Urban Design Method and Techniques
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Taylor & Francis Introduction to Urban Housing Design
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Taylor & Francis Designing Community
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Region in Transition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Governance of Place
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Dominance of Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Infrastructure Provision and the Negotiating Process Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series
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Taylor & Francis City of Quarters Urban Villages in the Contemporary City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Methodologies Models and Instruments for Rural and Urban Land Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The TVA Regional Planning and Development Program The Transformation of an Institution and Its Mission Urban Planning and Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States Urban Planning and Environment
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultures of Glass Architecture Design and the Built Environment
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Taylor & Francis Social Constructionism in Housing Research
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Taylor & Francis The Courtyard House
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rethinking Urban Transport After Modernism
Book SynopsisFor the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific âsilosâ. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of movement in a more integrated approach to urban settlement, and how thinking, policies and actions need to change. South Africa is used as a particularly good case study, since patterns of sprawl, fragmentation and separation have been exacerbated by apartheid, while recent legislation has demanded a reversal of these tendencies.Trade Review’This is an interesting case study from South Africa...the book emphasises an integrated approach to urban management incorporating mobility with interesting illustrations, data.’ Built Environment ’This book presents a comprehensive overview of the planning and policy issues in South African settlements...clearly written...The book is to be recommended as an interesting case study. It would be of interest to all professionals, as well as to undergraduate and post-graduate academics, in the field of urban, land-use and transportation planning, ranging from design to policy-making.’ Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: Defining the problem: the objectives of this book; Setting the scene; Approaches to settlement-making: locating the concepts of structure and space; Movement as an element of urban structure and urban space; Movement in urban structure: the case of South Africa; Movement as an element of urban space; Movement in space: the case of South Africa; Conclusion; References; Appendix A: excerpt from the Transport Planning Act; Appendix B: further readings consulted.
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Taylor & Francis Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport
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