Remaking Cities Routledge Revivals

Author : Alison Ravetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135007027

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Remaking Cities (Routledge Revivals) by Alison Ravetz Pdf

This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975. Always a fine balance between central control and market forces, it was challenged by strains within and between the environmental professions and protest by people dispossessed or alienated by re-shaped urban environments. Remaking Cities critiques the export of western-style planning to the developing world and reviews initiatives rooted in different understandings of ‘growth’ appearing in those years. Nearly forty years on, many of the same issues beset us, notably the depressingly familiar inner city problem, despite countless reports, funds and ‘programmes’. But now our infrastructure and services, once publicly owned, are privatised and fragmented, and local government progressively relegated. The very core of planning, development control, is being pared in a struggle to regain the ‘growth’ which led to our current crisis. This gives fresh importance to the need for new modes of creating liveable, sustainable environments, emphasised in this important work.

Author : Alison Ravetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135007034

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Remaking Cities (Routledge Revivals) by Alison Ravetz Pdf

This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975. Always a fine balance between central control and market forces, it was challenged by strains within and between the environmental professions and protest by people dispossessed or alienated by re-shaped urban environments. Remaking Cities critiques the export of western-style planning to the developing world and reviews initiatives rooted in different understandings of ‘growth’ appearing in those years. Nearly forty years on, many of the same issues beset us, notably the depressingly familiar inner city problem, despite countless reports, funds and ‘programmes’. But now our infrastructure and services, once publicly owned, are privatised and fragmented, and local government progressively relegated. The very core of planning, development control, is being pared in a struggle to regain the ‘growth’ which led to our current crisis. This gives fresh importance to the need for new modes of creating liveable, sustainable environments, emphasised in this important work.

Author : Alison Ravetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015007209011

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Remaking Cities by Alison Ravetz Pdf

Author : Allison Ravetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:635838074

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Remaking Cities by Allison Ravetz Pdf

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134519989

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Problems and Planning in Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals) by Michael Pacione Pdf

When this title was first published in 1981, growing concern for the future of cities and those who inhabited them, stimulated by trends in global urbanisation, had resulted in much emphasis being placed on a problem-solving approach to the study of the city. The chapters in this edited collection, a companion to Urban Problems and Planning in the Developed World (Routledge Revivals, 2013), consider the problems and planning activities in a number of cities across the world. Varied case-studies, including Mexico City, Bogota and Shanghai, reflect the differing economic, cultural and political regimes of the modern world and ensure the continued value of this comprehensive work.

Author : Carl Grodach,Renia Ehrenfeucht
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0415730546

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Urban Revitalization by Carl Grodach,Renia Ehrenfeucht Pdf

This book provides a historical and theoretical overview of urban revitalization, offering at the same time real-life planning and policy tools, data collection techniques and methodologies to help reinvent and reconfigure our cities and suburbs. This is an excellent, fresh and illuminating book that works as truly solid scholarship for the classroom as well as more general reading.

Author : Margaret Robertson,Po Keung Eric Tsang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811002168

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Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures by Margaret Robertson,Po Keung Eric Tsang Pdf

Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. Reflecting these themes this book places emphasis on community wisdom. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the region. Contributions from researchers active within local communities help build knowledge capacity and support for collaborative research.

Author : Edward Relph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317212225

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The Modern Urban Landscape (Routledge Revivals) by Edward Relph Pdf

First published in 1987, this book provides a wide-ranging account of how modern cities have come to look as they do — differing radically from their predecessors in their scale, style, details and meanings. It uses many illustrations and examples to explore the origins and development of specific landscape features. More generally it traces the interconnected changes which have occurred in architecture and aesthetic fashions, in planning, in economic and social conditions, and which together have created the landscape that now prevails in most of the cities of the world. This book will be of interest to students of architecture, urban studies and geography.

Author : Alison Ravetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134465170

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The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals) by Alison Ravetz Pdf

Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation. By the 1986, when this book was first published, the system’s survival beyond the year 2000 was in doubt. It did endure, but it is now under serious threat from the right, which sees it as obstructing enterprise and the restoration of ‘growth’. It has been stripped of some of its core aims and mechanisms, while as yet there is no agenda distinguishing growth that will be sustainable from growth which self-evidently is not. The Government of Space was written as a concise guide for the non-specialist to the origins and evolution of British planning, its intellectual pedigree, achievements and cruxes. It is an invaluable background to the state of planning and the cases for and against it today.

Author : Rod Hackney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317671152

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Routledge Revivals) by Rod Hackney Pdf

First published in 1990, this title presents the personal reflections of renowned community architect Rod Hackney, who served for many years as President of both the Royal Institute of British Architects and the International Union of Architects. Educated in the Modernist tradition of architecture in Britain and Denmark, Hackney’s return to England in the 1970s changed his outlook completely. Cities like Birmingham and Sheffield had been ruined by ill-conceived planning; whole communities had been torn apart by massive destruction of Victorian terraces, and relocated to grim tower block estates. To those communities that he has rescued from the threat of redevelopment, Rod Hackney is a local hero. Determined to save Britain’s inner cities, he has been a major influence on Prince Charles and a powerful spokesman for the silent majority of the urban poor, who often have no say as to where and how they live.

Author : Nick Wates,Charles Knevitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134618965

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Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals) by Nick Wates,Charles Knevitt Pdf

First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built environment is most effective when those who live in a particular area are actively engaged with its creation and daily administration. A work that has influenced policy makers and planning legislation, Community Architecture remains one of the key reference works for student architects and planners.

Author : Michael Ball
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317811459

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Rebuilding Construction (Routledge Revivals) by Michael Ball Pdf

First published in 1988, this book analyses the changes that took place in the economic organisation of the British construction industry throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, in particular considering its social and economic structure and examining the causes of its poor industrial record. Michael Ball describes how the major firms survived the economic slump between 1973 and 1982 - when construction workloads collapsed - by substantially restructuring their operations, relationships with clients, workforces and subcontractors. Detailed attention is paid to construction firms, the workers they employ, the influence of trade unionism and the role of other agencies in the building process. Reissued at a particularly challenging time for the British construction industry, this relevant and practical title will be of value to students and academics of economics and social change, as well as those on courses for construction professionals.

Author : Donald K. Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1315707993

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Remaking Post-industrial Cities by Donald K. Carter Pdf

Remaking Post-Industrial Cities: Lessons from North America and Europe examines the transformation of post-industrial cities after the precipitous collapse of big industry in the 1980s on both sides of the Atlantic, presenting a holistic approach to restoring post-industrial cities. Developed from the influential 2013 Remaking Cities Congress, conference chair Donald K. Carter brings together ten in-depth case studies of cities across North America and Europe, documenting their recovery from 1985 to 2015. Each chapter discusses the history of the city, its transformation, and prospects for the future. The cases cross-cut these themes with issues crucial to the resilience of post-industrial cities including sustainability; doing more with less; public engagement; and equity (social, economic and environmental), the most important issue cities face today and for the foreseeable future. This book provides essential "lessons learned" from the mistakes and successes of these cities, and is an invaluable resource for practitioners and students of planning, urban design, urban redevelopment, economic development and public and social policy.

Author : Lloyd Scott,Mohammad Dastbaz,Christopher Gorse
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783030443818

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Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design by Lloyd Scott,Mohammad Dastbaz,Christopher Gorse Pdf

Through research and proven practice, the aim of the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) is to foster ideas on how to reduce negative impacts on the environment while providing for the health and well-being of society. The professions and fields of research required to ensure buildings meet user demands and provide healthy enclosures are many and diverse. The SEEDS conference addresses the interdependence of people, the built and natural environments, and recognizes the interdisciplinary and international themes necessary to assemble the knowledge required for positive change.

Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : City planning
ISBN : 0415705746

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Urban Problems and Planning in the Developed World (Routledge Revivals) by Michael Pacione Pdf

Using a number of city-based case studies, including New York, Tokyo and Glasgow, this book presents a thorough analysis of urban problems and planning in relation to varying economic, cultural and political conditions throughout the developed world.