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  • "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"by Scott Larson

    Temple University Press 2013; US$ 28.95

     The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but in "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind," Scott Larson aims to use the Moses-Jacobs rivalry as a means for examining and understanding the New York City administration's redevelopment strategies and actions.... more...

  • The collaborating planner?by Ben Clifford; Mark Tewdwr-Jones

    The Policy Press 2013; US$ 99.00

    This new book aims to understand how both specific planning and broader public sector reforms have been experienced and understood by chartered town planners working in local authorities across Great Britain. more...

  • OECD Urban Policy Reviews, Poland 2011by OECD Publishing

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2011; US$ 67.00

    This comprehensive review of urban policy in Poland looks at the urban system and the challenges it faces, national policies for urban development in Poland, and adapting governance for a national urban policy agenda. more...

  • Beijing Recordby Jun Wang

    World Scientific Publishing Company 2011; US$ 75.00

    In 2003, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency journalist Wang Jun published the bestseller "Beijing Record", the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years. Home to more than 15 million people, this ancient capital city - not surprisingly - has a controversial, complicated history of planning... more...

  • urbanRESETby Nina Brodowski; Jörg Seifert; Angelus Eisinger

    De Gruyter 2012; US$ 49.95

    In recent years and decades, dealing with the architectural legacy of the industrial age has been an increasingly common task for urban planning: industrial buildings and sites, infrastructure, and residential areas that have become vacant lots as a result of structural transformation cannot, if only because of their dimensions, be ignored within the... more...

  • Public Places - Urban Spacesby Tim Heath; Taner Oc; Steve Tiesdell; Matthew Carmona

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 57.95

    Public Places - Urban Spaces is a holistic guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design. The discussion moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from an unrivalled range of sources. It aids the reader by gradually building the concepts one upon the other towards a total view of... more...

  • Taming Technologyby H. Koerten

    IOS Press 2011; US$ 94.00

    It is often assumed that innovative technology is an essential resource for the establishment of an information infrastructure. This study on geoinformation infrastructures convincingly demonstrates that technology is an important and far more complex factor than much geoinformation practitioners want us to believe. Three Dutch cases were studied,... more...

  • Planning the Great Metropolisby D.A. Johnson

    Spon Press 1995; US$ 200.00

    This authoritative and detailed review chronicles the events leading up to the regional plan of New York, 1929 and assesses its significance and influence on subsequent developments of New York. more...

  • Complex Artificial Environmentsby J. Portugali

    Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 169.99

    Explores the possibilities of applying the theories of complexity and self-organization developed to account for various phenomena in the natural science to artifacts traditionally the realm of humanities and social sciences. This volume emphasises on the development of cities and the impact of these methods on urban simulation methods. more...