The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted …
This book examines the design policies in current development plans. With design quality of growing importance to the public, consumers, developers and their clients, and high on the …
The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships. The main body of the book synthesizes a mass of information to provide an overview of a complex and …
S Marshall - Urban design international, 2012 - Springer
Urban design theory has been criticised for being incoherent and insubstantial. It is suggested that this is partly because urban design theory is not robustly based on a fully …
R Green - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 1999 - Elsevier
This study explored the notion of 'town character'within the context of one Australian coastal town from the perspective of the community. Responses from a sample of residents to a set …
Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and …
J Punter - Journal of Urban design, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This paper develops and discusses some 12 principles for best practice design review internationally. It seeks to embed these principles in plan making, design policy and …
This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time-the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England …
M Southworth - Built Environment (1978-), 2003 - JSTOR
With the instigation of new technologies, of many of the sensory qualities in the urban environment that directly affect quality of life have become measurable. It is argued that a …