Böcker i Planning, History and Environment Series-serien

This book is about one episode in the perennial search for perfection, but what is revealed has lessons that extend well beyond a particular time and place.

This highly illustrated book describes how places have been 'sold' or promoted to make themselves attractive locations as holiday resorts, business centres or residential areas. Examines the history of current practice, using worldwide examples.

Shows how Jakarta was transformed from a colonial capital into a megacity of well over 10 million inhabitants. This book places the city's planning history within local, national and international contexts. It describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia.

Explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage, using historical narratives, novels and fictional accounts by local writers. This book also explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai's urban growth, its changing urbanity and its place within the global city network.

The cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities. This title reveals the contrasts and similarities between older, traditional Arab cities and the oil-stimulated cities of the Gulf in their search for development and a place in the world order.

For much of the mid-twentieth century Stockholm was the model for Europe and elsewhere. This book presents the history of Stockholm's development from the city's unique seventeenth-century redevelopment and extension to the postmodern, postindustrial trends.

Explores the urban history of some of Latin America's cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there, revealing contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.

A multidisciplinary team of specialists list historical and contemporary research on suburbanization with particular emphasis on the UK, North America, Australia and South Africa.

Council Housing and Culture makes clear the importance of council housing to twentieth-century life and culture. A major thread through the work is the interaction of council housing with evolving working-class patterns and aspirations.

This text traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process, both are set in their political context.

Has globalization replaced colonization as a threat to the heritage and identity of the Middle East City of the 21st century? How did colonial influences change the urban form of the Arab capitals? Is hybridization of architectural and urban discourse affecting the development of cities? These questions, and more, are addressed in this text.

Sets out to explore what makes capital cities different from other cities, why their planning is unique, and why there is such variety from one city to another. This book is intended for those with an interest in urban planning and design, architectural, planning and urban history, urban geography, or capital cities and why they are what they are.

Examines the plans for sixteen important capital cities around the world.

Investigating what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism, this book offers a study of the high-rise intensity of Hong Kong.

A study of planning in 15 major European cities. It includes case studies of development schemes for each city, and general discussion of capital together with city planning.

This text provides a single volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for anyone interested in the broad evolutionary sweep of modern planning.

Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an unprecedented critical survey of the state of urban planning at the end of the millennium.