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  • 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

    $84.99 USD

  • Urban Nation

    Australia's Planning Heritage

    by Robert Freestone ...
    Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape. This ambitious account looks at every state and territory from the earliest days of European settlement to the present day. It identifies and documents hundreds of places - parks, public spaces, redeveloped precincts, neighbourhoods, ... Read more

    $51.99 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

    $89.99 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

    $73.99 USD

  • 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

    $60.99 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

    $70.99 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

    $82.99 USD

  • Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture

    Edited by Robert Freestone, Marco Amati ...
    The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from international expos to local public halls. The agendas of the promoters varied, but exhibitions generally drew their social legitimacy from their status as ’appropriate educative agencies of citizenship’. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Urban Planning in a Changing World

    The Twentieth Century Experience

    Edited by Robert Freestone ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years. Written by leading experts and commentators from around the world, this collection of original essays will form an unprecedented critical survey of the state of urban planning a ... Read more

    $233.99 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

  • 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

    $68.99 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

    $94.99 USD