A primer for the modern Urban Planner or city manager from a historical perspective of global cities.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the historical evolution--from antiquity to the present--of the city and the built environment. It considers the fo

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This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps e

Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic