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Please find below a selection of our latest titles in Urban Studies and Planning, all of which are available to buy at the conference at great discount prices. For details of all our titles in this area, please see our new online flyer.
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Latest titles in Urban Studies and Planning
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Rethinking sustainable cities: Accessible, green and fair
Edited by David Simon
Paperback £9.99/US$18.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3284-8
Conference price: £5.00
ePDF available to download at www.oapen.org
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This important book makes a significant contribution to the sustainable urbanisation agenda through authoritative interventions contextualising, assessing and explaining the relevance and importance of three central characteristics of sustainable towns and cities everywhere; that they be accessible, green and fair.
Health divides: Where you live can kill you
By Clare Bambra
Pb £12.99 /US$22.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3035-6
Conference price: £10.00
Clare Bambra examines the social, environmental, economic and political causes of health inequalities, how they have evolved over time and what they are like today. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you.
The book launches at this year's conference with a drinks event this evening (Wednesday 31st August). Check the conference programme for more information.
Cities for a Small Continent: International handbook of city recovery
By Anne Power
Paperback £24.99/US$42.95 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2753-0
Conference price: £15.00
Download the book’s Foreword by Richard Rogers, international architect, here.
Through varied case studies this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities over 10 years, to present a compelling framework showing how Europe’s post-industrial cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.
English Planning in Crisis: 10 steps to a sustainable future
By Hugh Ellis and Kate Henderson
Paperback £7.99/US$15.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3034-9
Conference price: £5.00
This book is a manifesto for a new planning system in England. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, the authors draw on policy and practice examples from across the UK and internationally to challenge the current English system and ignite debate about its future.
Infrastructure Delivery Planning
By Janice Morphet
Paperback £23.99/US$35.95 ISBN: 978-1-4473-1679-4
Conference price: £15.00
Janice Morphet sets out and analyses the key components of infrastructure delivery in Britain, both at national and neighbourhood level, situating this within international, European and domestic economic, territorial and social policy.
Applying Leadership & Management in Planning
By Janice Morphet
Paperback £22.99 US$39.95 ISBN: 978-1-4473-1684-8
Conference price: £15.00
Written by an experienced author and widely respected academic, this valuable book asks whether the planning system is to blame for the frequent criticism it receives and discusses the ways in which management theories, tools and techniques can be applied to planning.
By Danny Dorling and Bethan Thomas
Paperback £22.99/US$49.95 ISBN: 978-1-4473-1137-9
Conference price: £15.00
This unique atlas uses the 2011 Census data, alongside more recent data sources, to identify national and local trends and provide up-to-date analysis and discussion of the implications of current trends for future policy. This is the only social atlas of the 2011 Census that explains so much about how all of the UK is changing.
Resilience in the post-welfare inner city
By Geoffrey DeVerteuil
Now in paperback £26.99/US$45.95 ISBN: 978-1-4473-1664-0
Conference price: £15.00
Moving beyond theoretical notions of ‘resilience’ this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service ‘hubs’ in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
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