Explore the vast range of titles available.

The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research and urban planning have been particularly significant. Beginning with debates about reconstruction during the Second World War,Anglo-American Crossroadsexplores how Americanisation influenced key approaches to town planning, from reconstruction after 1945 to the New Urbanism of the 1990s. Clapson pays particular attention to the relationship between urban sociological research and planning issues since the 1950s. He also addresses the ways in which American developers and planners of new communities looked to the British new towns and garden city movement for inspiration. Using a wide range of sources, from American Foundation Archives to town planning materials and urban sociologies,Anglo-American Crossroadsshows that although some things went wrong in translation from the USA to Britain, there were also some important successes within a transatlantic dialogue that was more nuanced than a one-dimensional process of American hegemony.

Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies. The USA is known for its settlement patterns that emphasize low-density suburban development and extreme automobile dependence, whereas European countries emphasize higher densities, pro-transit policies and more compact urban growth. Yet, on closer inspection, the differences are not as wide as first appears. A key feature of the book is the attention given to France; its experience is little known in the English-speaking world. The book concludes that both continents can offer each other useful insights and perhaps policy guidance. Contents: Introduction, Chang-Hee Christine Bae and Harry W. Richardson. Part I: The United Kingdom: Sustainable settlements and jobs-housing balance, Michael Breheny; Reducing sprawl and delivering an urban renaissance in England: are these aims possible given current attitudes to urban living?, Katie Williams; Push-pull forces in the spatial organization of Greater London and South East England, Terence Bendixson; Knowledge, decisions and urban form: implications from the socialist calculation debate, Mark Pennington; The thirty-year's experiment with British greenbelt policy in Korea: a convergent path to sustainable development, Sang-Chuel Choe. Part II: France and Continental Western Europe: Urban sprawl in Rennes and 77 urban areas in France, 1982-1999; Remy Prud'homme and Bernard-Henri Nicot; Urban sprawl in France 1990-1999, Alain Sallez and Julien Birgi; Urban sprawl: is there a French case?, Denise Pumain; Concentration and dispersal of employment in French cities, Jean-Marie Huriot; Location patterns of producer services: between centralization and urban sprawl; French and Swiss case studies, Antoine Bailly; Urbanization and the social origins of national policies toward sprawl, Jefferey Sellers. Part III: The United States of America: US population and employment trends and sprawl issues, Harry W. Richardson and Peter Gordon; Urban containment American style: a preliminary assessment, Arthur C. Nelson; Local innovations in controlling sprawl: experiences with several approaches in the Seattle urban region, Donald Miller; Immigration and densities: a contribution to the compact cities and sprawl debates, Chang-Hee Christine Bae; Transit and density: Atlanta, the United States and Western Europe, Alain Bertaud and Harry W. Richardson; Traffic and sprawl: evidence from US commuting, 1985 to 1997, Randall Crane and Daniel G. Chatman; Index. Harry W. Richardson holds the James Irvine Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, USA. Dr Chang-Hee Christine Bae is Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Washington, USA.

\"This book is a reassessment of the changes that occurred in the towns of Britain in the later Roman period, around the late third, fourth and early fifth centuries A.D. It is commonly argued that these changes represent decline in the later Roman Empire but this book suggests alterniative ways of interpreting late Roman towns and demonstrates that there are more positive ways of understanding late Roman archaeology. This is a much needed reanalysis bringing new understanding to this crucial period of history\"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the summer 2007 flooding of the Thames in the UK in terms of political fallout, housing policy, the risks of building on the flood plain, & the impact of urbanization on home building & buying choices. Adapted from the source document.