Product Description: To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has performed a service to planners everywhere by initiating the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of To-Morrow...read more

Product Description: A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour...read more

Product Description: Professor Puri is one of the most versatile and prolific researchers in the world in mathematical statistics. His research areas include nonparametric statistics, order statistics, limit theory under mixing, time series, splines, tests of normality, generalized inverses of matrices and related topics, stochastic processes, statistics of directional data, random sets, and fuzzy sets and fuzzy measures...read more

Now in its third edition, this text provides the student with an introduction to planning. Peter Hall traces the evolution of urban and regional problems, planning philosophies, techniques and legislation, from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, fitting modern planning into its historical context. Particular stress is given to Britain but comparative chapters cover planning in Europe and the United States. Written as an introduction for both students of applied geography and of town and country planning, this book may be of interest to a wider audience keen to discover how cities have evolved. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Sociable Cities is published to coincide with the centenary of the publication of Ebenezer Howard's revolutionary Garden Cities of Tomorrow. Howard's book would prove to be the most influential work on city planning in the 20th Century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. A critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject Comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective Reviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century...read more

Product Description: Following on from Peter Hall's earlier "London 2001", a work of the 1960s, this new book attempts to do for London of the late 1980s what its predecessor did for London of the early '60s. In this book Hall presents a survey of the major planning problems of this, the most prosperous area of Britain, concluding with an imaginative vision of what the region, with proper strategic guidance, could become by 2001...read more

Product Description: In this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the histories of five great planning disasters and two near-disasters and analyzes the decisions of the professional bureaucrats, community activists, and politicians involved in the planning process...read more