Planning

This is a visual, geographic and narrative journey that explains why London is the way it is today.

Climax City untangles the complexity of urban growth and masterplanning and embraces the chaos of the city

In the writing of urban design history of the twentieth century, functionalist and avant-garde models of the dissolution of the city are dominating. In contrast this book presents projects whose goal is the ideal of a dense and urbane city. Drawing on plans, built examples and theories of dense and urban cities and city districts in the twentieth c

A visual and clear guide to building better density to create happier, more livable cities. With foreword by Jan Gehl.