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An introduction to behavioural geography
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ISBN: 0198232330 0198232349 9780198232346 Year: 1980 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

The practice of modernism : modern architects and urban transformation, 1954-1972
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ISBN: 9780415258432 9780415258425 041525843X 0415258421 9780203962183 9781134514076 9781134514113 9781134514120 Year: 2007 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book The Experience of Modernism (1997), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design.Making extensive use of information gained from hours of in-depth interviews with architects of the time, this new book examines the complex relationship between vision and subsequent practice in the saga of postwar urban reconstruction. The Practice of Modernism:traces the personal, institutional and professional backgrounds of the architects involved in schemes for reconstruction and replanning deals directly with the progress of urban transformation, focusing on the contribution that modern architects and architectural principles made to town centre renewal and social housing highlights how the exuberance of the 1960s gave way to the profound reappraisal that emerged by the early 1970s. Written by an expert, this is a key book on the planning aspects of the modernist movement for architectural historians, urban geographers, planners and all concerned with understanding the recent history of the contemporary city.

Olympic cities : city agendas, planning and the World's Games, 1896-2012.
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ISBN: 9780415374064 9780415374071 0415374065 0415374073 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Routledge


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Olympic cities : city agendas, planning and the world's games, 1896-2020
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ISBN: 9781138832671 9781138832695 9781315735887 9781317565291 9781317565307 Year: 2017 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,

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The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and enlarged third edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews of the urban legacy of the four component Olympic festivals: the Summer Games; Winter Games; Cultural Olympiads; and the Paralympics. The second part comprisessystematic surveys of seven key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics: finance; place promotion; the creation of Olympic Villages; security; urban regeneration; tourism; and transport. The final part consists of nine chronologically arranged portraits of host cities, from 1936 to 2020, with particular emphasis on the six Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games of the twenty-first century.As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics, with associated issues of accountability and legacy, continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading for a wide audience. This will include not just urban and sports historians, urban geographers, event managers and planners, but also anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events and concerned with building a better understanding of the relationship between cities, sport and culture.

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