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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors and Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Urbanism: The ingredient of great places -- Cities -- Antwerp -- Bordeaux -- Bristol -- Budapest -- Freiburg -- Glasgow -- Gothenburg -- Hamburg -- Helsinki -- Lisbon -- Lyon -- Manchester -- NewcastleGateshead -- Oslo -- Valencia -- Towns -- Bury St. Edmunds -- Cambridge -- Chester -- Chichester -- Derry~Londonderry -- Falmouth -- Galway -- Hebden Bridge -- Richmond -- Scarborough -- Shewsbury -- Stirling -- Stroud -- Totnes -- Westport -- Neighbourhoods -- Accordia, Cambridge

"'Integral Urbanism' is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism intended for planners and architects looking for new models to improve the quality of urban life. The model that Ellin proposes stands as an antidote to the problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture (and architecture) of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues. Moving away from the escapist and reactive tendencies of modern and postmodern planning, Ellin champions an 'integral' approach, arguing that we should work towards the re-integration of urban milieus that planners and architects typically conceive of as being separate from each other. Hers is a fundamentally ecological approach, looking at places as parts of larger settings and environments. In designing cities, planners and architects need to consider what surrounds the site in order to see that the barriers between spaces are, in reality, porous. Then we can re-conceptualize how we design urban space, integrating seemingly incongruous small sites as well as larger regions."--Publisher description

Islamic cultures in the Middle East have inherited and developed a legacy of urbanism spanning millennia to the ancient civilizations of the region. In contrast to well-organized states like China in history, Muslim peoples formed loose states based on intricate social networks. As a consequence, most studies of urban history in the Middle East have focused their gaze exclusively on urban social organization, often neglecting the extension of political power to rural areas. Covering Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iran and Brunei, this volume explores the relationship between political power and social

Chapter 1: Understanding Urbanism -- Chapter 2: Indigenous Cities -- Chapter 3: Economic Cities -- Chapter 4: Planning Cities -- Chapter 5: Designing Cities -- Chapter 6: Heritage Cities -- Chapter 7: Mobile Cities -- Chapter 8: Public Cities -- Chapter 9: Multicultural Cities -- Chapter 10: Digital Cities -- Chapter 11: Data, Science and Cities -- Chapter 12: Green Cities -- Chapter 13: Healthy Cities -- Chapter 14: Political Cities.

Waters Urbanisms East expands upon the first edition of Water Urbanisms, published in 2008. It gathers a number of leading practitioners and academics globally to reflect upon the growing challenges of water in the city, infra-structural landscapes and the reuniting of engineered and natural processes.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1. Urban Growth -- Up, Out & Down; Growing Cities; Urban Connectivity; Land Values; Valuing Land; Heritage & Height Constraints; Shelter; Resilience; Theory; 2. Understanding the Underground; Underground?; Mythology; Archaeology; Heritage; Geology; Water; Hidden and Buried; Utilities; Transport; Buildings; The Whole Picture; 3. Planning in 3D; Cities are Complex, Multi-layered Spaces; A Race to the Bottom; Where to from Here?; Amsterdam; Beijing; Helsinki; Hong Kong; London; New York; Paris; Singapore; Tokyo; Conclusion

Tackling cosmopolitanism from a geographical perspective, this book examines the complex politics of cosmopolitanism in empirical case studies from Montreal to Singapore, London to Texas, Auckland to Amsterdam. Organized in three distinct parts, it is useful for students of human geography, urban studies, and sociology