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  • Community Green

    Rediscovering the Enclosed Spaces of the Garden Suburb Tradition

    by David Nichols, Robert Freestone ...
    Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb. Community Green uniquely connects the past, present and future of planning for small open spaces around the narrative of internal reserves.The distinctive planned spaces are typically enclosed on ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform

    Histories of Australian Town Planning Associations

    by Margaret Park, Chris McConville, Andrew May, Susan Reidy, Christine Garnaut, Kerrie Round, Stefan Petrow, Jenny Gregory ...
    Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform tells a story of community involvement in the development of Australian town planning from the early 20th century from the first wave of enthusiasm for modern town planning ideals before the Great War onto the more challenging social and political environment for the original town planning associations in the post-Second World War era.Meticulously ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Designing the Global City

    Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney

    by Robert Freestone, Gethin Davison, Richard Hu ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and sustainable. It focuses on the experience of central Sydney through its policy commitment to ‘design excellence’ and more particularly to mandatory ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Designing Australia's Cities

    Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900�1930

    by Robert Freestone ...
    Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a highly visual account of historical, contemporary and international projects.Looking at the ways in which the City Beautiful movement influenced the design and development of Australian cities, this pioneering national study surveys the ruling ideas, ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change

    Edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, Robert Freestone ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the history of planning, the design of an entire community prior to its construction is among the oldest traditions. Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change explores the twenty-first-century fortunes of planned communities around the world. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the editors and contributors examine what happened to planned communities after their glory days ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Australian Metropolis

    A Planning History

    Edited by Robert Freestone, Stephen Hamnett ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present day, it will instantly become a standard work ' Professor Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Place and Placelessness Revisited

    Edited by Robert Freestone, Edgar Liu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph’s Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design. For four decades, ideas put forward by this seminal work have continued to spark debates, from the concept of placelessness itself through how it plays out in our ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 6

    The Right to the City

    Edited by Christopher Silver, Robert Freestone, Christophe Demaziere ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.This 6th volume incorporates essays that explore the salient issue commonly referred to as "The ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

    Volume 5

    Edited by Michael Hibbard, Robert Freestone, Tore Øivin Sager ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.The topics they address include the effects of globalization on world cities, metropolitan planning in France ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Planning Metropolitan Australia

    Edited by Stephen Hamnett, Robert Freestone ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great majority of Australians live in a small number of large metropolitan areas focused on the state capital cities. The development and application of effective urban policy at a regional scale is a significant global challenge given the complexities of ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Planning Imagination

    Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning

    Edited by Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Nicholas Phelps, Robert Freestone ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Knighted in 1998 ‘for services to the Town and Country Planning Association’, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a ‘Pioneer in the Life of the Nation’, Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning. For the last 50 years, he has captured and helped to create the ‘planning imagination’.Here the editors ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change

    Edited by Mary Corbin Sies, Isabelle Gournay, Robert Freestone ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the history of planning, the design of an entire community prior to its construction is among the oldest traditions. Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change explores the twenty-first-century fortunes of planned communities around the world. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the editors and contributors examine what happened to planned communities after their glory days ... Read more

    $68.39 USD