Urban Design, Planning and Housing

Professor Sir Peter Hall's look what's wrong with urban Britain today - why some parts of Europe have got it so right where we have got it so wrong, and what might be learnt from European experience.

Here Gonzalo Lizarralde examines the basic knowledge that architects, urban specialists and design professionals need to have before intervening in developing countries.

A theory of urbanism, this work offers a different model of urban life. This model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture - and architecture - of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues.

Looking through the lenses of culture and politics, this book reveals the intersecting relationship between the design of international capitals and the prominent roles they play in the assertion of national identity.

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change, and rising inequality.

Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction examines the nature and effects of post-war urban design worldwide.

"A very timely and valuable contribution to the literature for urban planners, city governments and all those who wish to understand the interactions between urbanization, disaster risk and climate change, and explore innovative ways and means of action." -- From the Publisher.