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  • Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities

    by Colin Divall ...
    Series series Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
    For the majority of us the opportunity to travel has never been greater, yet differences in mobility highlight inequalities that have wider social implications. Exploring how and why attitudes towards movement have evolved across generations, the case studies in this essay collection range from medieval to modern times and cover several continents. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • From Rail to Road and Back Again?

    A Century of Transport Competition and Interdependency

    by Colin Divall ...
    The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be ... Read more

    $82.99 CAD

  • Transport Policy: Learning Lessons from History

    by Colin Divall, Julian Hine ...
    Series series Transport and Society
    The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility policies. This is not to say that history repeats itself, or that every contemporary transport dilemma has an historical counterpart: rather, the contributors to this book argue that in many contexts of transport planning a better understanding of the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Suburbanizing the Masses

    Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective

    by Colin Divall, Winstan Bond ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and social evolution of towns and cities in various countries since the mid nineteenth century. Divided into two sections, the volume develops first the classic tradition on transport and the city, public transport's 'impact' on urban development. The ... Read more

    $384.77 CAD

  • Trains, Culture, and Mobility

    Riding the Rails

    by Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf, Rowan Wilken, Samuel Gerald Collins, Hiroki Shin, Tristan R. Grunow, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Agata Morka, Colin Divall ...
    Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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    by Ivor Samuels, Phillippe Panerai, Jean Castex, Jean Charles Depaule ...
    This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic layouts of town ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Good Cities, Better Lives

    How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism

    by Peter Hall ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we learn from other countries, especially our near neighbours in Europe? And, in turn, can we provide lessons for other countries facing similar dilemmas?Urban Britain is not functioning as it should. Social inequalities and regional disparities show ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Urban Design

    A Typology of Procedures and Products

    by Jon Lang ...
    Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.Including over 50 updated international case studies, this new edition presents a three-dimensional model with which to categorize the processes and products involved: product type, ... Read more

    $130.99 CAD

  • City Design

    Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

    by Jonathan Barnett ...
    City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived ... Read more

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  • Urban Modernity

    Cultural Innovation in the Second Industrial Revolution

    by Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon, Morris Low ...
    How Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo created modernity through science and technology by means of urban planning, international expositions, and museums.At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Multi-Unit Housing in Urban Cities

    From 1800 to Present Day

    by Katy Chey ...
    This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day. It emphasises the importance of understanding the direct connection between housing and dwelling in the context of a city, and the manner in which the city is an instructional indication of how a housing typology is embodied.The case studies presented ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Urban Masterplanning Handbook

    by Eric Firley, Katharina Groen ...
    The Urban Masterplanning HandbookA highly visual reference tool, this handbook provides comparative information about major urban extensions and masterplans around the world. It places an important new emphasis on the processes and structures that influence urban form, including public or private landownership, management and funding.Each of the book's 20 subjects is rigorously analysed through ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD