Peter Hall

Good Cities, Better Lives

How Europe Discovered the Lost Art of Urbanism

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Sir Peter Hall's look whatâ 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.

Produktdetails

• Planning, History and Environment Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780415840224
• ISBN-10: 0415840228
• Artikelnr.: 37721841

Autorenporträt

Sir Peter Hall (1932 - 2014) was Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at University College London, and President of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association. He produced over fifty books in his career and is internationally renowned for his studies on all aspects of cities and regions.

Inhaltsangabe

Building the New Jerusalem: Five Challenges for Cities Part 1: Facing the
Challenges 1. The First Challenge: Rebalancing Our Urban Economies 2. The
Second Challenge: Building New HomesNot Enough New Homes 3. The Third
Challenge: Linking People and PlacesLondon: From Classic Public Transport
Metropolis to Mega-City Region 4. The Fourth Challenge: Living with Finite
Resources 5. The Fifth Challenge: Fixing Broken Machinery Part 2:
Learning From Model Cities: A Twenty-First-Century Grand Tour 6. Going on
Tour 7. Boosting Economic Growth in Germany 8. Building Sustainable Suburbs
in the Netherlands 9. France Uses Transport to Develop and Regenerate
Cities 10. Conserving Resources in Scandinavia: Stockholm and
Copenhagen-MalmöStockholm's Planned Satellite Towns 11. Freiburg: The City
That Did It All Part 3: Lessons from Europe 12. Learning the Lessons