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The British Olympics: Britain's Olympic Heritage 1612-2012
History records that the Olympic Games originated in ancient Greece nearly three thousand years ago, died out around AD393, and were triumphantly...
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Visual Planning and the Picturesque
This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the 20th century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural...
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Berlin Urban Design: A Brief History
This book presents a history of Berlin’s urban design from a European perspective. It is intended for professionals and students interested...
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Capital cities in the Aftermath of Empires: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe
Exploring the urban and planning history of cities across Central and South-eastern Europe against a background of rising nationalism, this book...
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Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death & Life of Great American Cities
Three books, all written by women in the early 1960s, changed the way we looked at the world and ourselves: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Betty...
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Railways, Urban Development and Town Planning in Britain: 1948-2008
The British railway system was nationalised in 1948, the same year that the modern planning system came into operation. In theory, this should have...
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The Liberal Monument : Urban Design and the Late Modern Project
Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now...
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Urban Design
Fifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design as a distinct architectural and planning practice. Today, with...
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The City in History
The city’s development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. “One of the major works of scholarship...
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The Urban Housing Handbook: Shaping the Fabric of Our Cities
The Urban Housing Handbook provides graphic representations and analysis of 30 urban case studies from around the world. These range from the...
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Multiple City: Urban Concepts 1908 - 2008
Multiple City reflects on current urban development against the background of various urban concepts over the past 100 years. It is possible to...
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Ten Lessons on Barcelona
This lucid study describes the construction of Barcelona as a succession of episodes, data, dates, facts, details, events and interpretations. A...
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Urban Development in Renaissance Italy
Providing a comprehensive account of one of the most formative historical periods, this book uniquely describes Renaissance architecture as the...
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The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World
The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World sheds light on this extraordinary chapter in world urban history. The...
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Villages of Vision: A Study of Strange Utopias
All over Britain and Ireland there are planned villages: for aesthetic, philanthropic or political reasons, for convenience and for ideals. Some of...
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Volume 12 - Al Manakh (Dubai Guide; Gulf Survey; Global Agenda)
After Singapore in the 1980s and China in the 1990s, the next large-scale urbanisation is going ahead at full steam. Al Manakh, a special...
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Architectural Britain : From the Saxon Period to the Present Day
Revised, updated and expanded in size, this book presents a broad outline of the development of architectural styles and movements in Britain...
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Estates: An Intimate History
Britain's council estates have become a media shorthand for poverty, social mayhem, drugs, drink and violence - the social ills they were built to...
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Sprawl: A Compact History
As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old...
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Cities
This book explores the citys raisons detre, functions and forms, its achievements and problems, from fortifications to sewers, factories to markets...
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