Urban Ecology: An Introduction
Rating: Ian Douglas and Philip James. 2015. Urban Ecology – an introduction. Routledge. ISBN978 0 415 53895 4 It’s fairly clear that the human future is urban. We passed the half-way mark some time ago and now we are increasingly urbanised. Yet this urban future is not totally concrete. Cities have parks and other designated open spaces. Almost half of London can be considered as greenspace! It’s increasingly obvious, from bomb sites as havens of rare species to brownfield sites […]
ONS – Environment
ONS – Environment – The Office of National Statistics has a vast range of data available if you can find it, online. One useful resource is their Compendium – 4 sections of basic UK data. This link is the environment one.
The Planning Imagination
Rating: Mark Tewdyr-Jones, Nicholas A Phelps and Robert Freestone. (eds). 2014. The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the study of urban and regional planning. Routledge. ISBN 978 0 415 50608 3 Perhaps it’s best to start with an admission, much in the way the editors have! Peter Hall was one of my Doctoral supervisors. He tested every limit of my thinking and ability to research and there’s not a day I don’t use some of his wisdom! His way of […]
Good Cities, Better Lives
Rating: Peter Hall. 2013. Good Cities, Better Lives. Routledge. ISBN 978 0 415 84022 4 Sir Peter Hall has been writing about urban areas for over 50 years and is rightly regarded as one of the finest academics in this area. Any new book by him is going to create a wave of interest as have many of the earlier works. They seem (like London 2000 and The Containment of Urban England) to be milestones in the discussion about urban […]
