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Cities in civilization: culture, innovation, and urban order
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ISBN: 0297842196 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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Great planning disasters
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ISBN: 0520046072 0520046021 Year: 1982 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Great Planning Disasters
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ISBN: 0297776274 9780297776277 Year: 1980 Publisher: London Weidenfeld

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Great Planning Disasters appears as ensational - even a sensationalist - title. But it means what it says. This book deals with a series of great planning decisions - ones costing tens or hundreds or even thousands of millions of pounds or dollars. It analyses the central processes of planning that were involved. And it isolates those which, in the view of many informed people, were disasters either because they were abandoned after much effort, or because they went ahead and were widely criticized as major mistakes. Among the first group-negative disasters - the book looks at London's third airport and the abandoned London motorways. Among the many examples of positive disasters it considers Concorde, the Bay Area Rapid Transit System in San Francisco, and the Sydney Opera House. Lastly it probes two cases of near-disasters that became relative successes: California's plan for new university campuses, and Britain's plans for a new national library in London. From these case studies, in the second part of the book Peter Hall seeks to distil some general lessons. He looks at the role of key actors in the planning process: at community activists, at professional bureaucrats, at the politicians. His analysis, which synthesizes a large body of recent research in politics and related fields of social science, is often unflattering but always illuminating. Finally, drawing again on research-in fields as diverse as long-term future forecasting, welfare economics and ethical philosophy - he offers some tentativesuggestions for improved decision-making in the future.


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ISBN: 004445161X 0044455569 9780044455561 9780044451617 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Unwin Hyman


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Rates of convergence in the central limit theorem
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ISBN: 0273085654 9780273085652 Year: 1982 Volume: 62 Publisher: Boston Pitman

Introduction to the theory of coverage processes
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ISBN: 0471857025 9780471857020 Year: 1988 Publisher: New York : Wiley,

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Cities of tomorrow : an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century.
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ISBN: 0631232524 0631232648 9780631232520 Year: 2002 Publisher: Malden Blackwell

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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 itTrenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subjectComprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspectiveReviews the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century

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