Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880
- A revised and updated edition of this classic text from one of the most notable figures in the field of urban planning and design
- Offers an incisive, insightful, and unrivalled critical history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the underlying socio-economic challenges and opportunities
- Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new research published over the last decade
- Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth-century and beyond
- Draws on global examples throughout, and weaves the author’s own fascinating experiences into the text to illustrate this authoritative story of urban growth
Kyoto - An Urban History of Japans Premodern Capital
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Cities and Urban Life (6th Edition)
A comprehensive introduction to urban sociologyCities and Urban Life, written by two of the best-known authors in the field, provides a comprehensive...
Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia
This is a comprehensive reference work on major ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa from their beginnings to the present day...
Time Frame - The Rise of Cities
Content:The Urban PioneersThe Classical AchievementEssay: Life in the ShadowsThe Orient AscendantRebirth in the WestEssay: Cities of the ImaginationTh...
Urbanisms: Working with Doubt
Contemporary urban development is increasingly characterized by a reliance on diagrams to convey the rational, statistical point of view of the profes...