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  • The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration

    From Vision to Reality in Birmingham and Coventry

    Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration focuses on such debates and experiences in Birmingham and Coventry as they recovered from Second World War bombings and post-war industrial collapse.Including numerous images, Adams and Larkham explore the initial development of the post-Second World War ... Leer más

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  • Shapers of Urban Form

    Explorations in Morphological Agency

    Edición de Peter Larkham, Michael Conzen ...
    People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day.Larkham and Conzen collect new essays in "urban morphology," the people-centered predecessor to contemporary theories of top-down urban ... Leer más

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  • Authentic Reconstruction

    Authenticity, Architecture and the Built Heritage

    Notions of authenticity lie at the heart of many questions about heritage and identity in the built environment. These questions are most pertinent when buildings have been destroyed in disaster or war, and the built fabric is being reconstructed to reinstate traditional or historic appearances in place of what was lost.Authentic Reconstruction examines this idea of reconstruction, using it as a ... Leer más

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  • Building A New Heritage (RLE Tourism)

    Edición de Gregory Ashworth, Peter Larkham ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Tourism
    At the heart of the European debate lies the tension between the idea of European unity and individual state identities and nationalisms. This volume provides an insight into this dichotomy by exploring the role of heritage in the new Europe.The main theme of this book is that a number of possible heritages can be shaped from the European past depending on the purposes for which they are intended. ... Leer más

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  • Conservation and the City

    de Peter Larkham ...
    It is a widely held belief that cities must change, or they will wither and die. One of the key problems of urbanization is how to cope with these changes while retaining the structures constructed and maintained by previous generations.Conservation and the City is a study of conservation and change throughout the built environment - city centres, suburbs and even tiny villages - and how the ... Leer más

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  • Changing Suburbs

    Foundation, Form and Function

    Edición de Richard Harris, Peter Larkham ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location. Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia from the nineteenth century to the present day. ... Leer más

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  • Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction

    Creating the modern townscape

    The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history.This book provides a key critical statement on mid-twentieth century urban design and city planning, focused principally upon the period ... Leer más

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

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  • Urban Design and the British Urban Renaissance

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  • Cultural Quarters

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  • Red Metropolis

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