Planning for tall buildings / Michael J. Short.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Short, Michael J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tall buildings--Social aspects.

Tall buildings.

City planning.

Physical Description:

xii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Contents:

Introduction

The tall building typology

The potential impacts of tall buildings

The emergence of planning frameworks for tall buildings

Tall buildings in Liverpool : "balancing conservation and change in the maritime mercantile city"

Tall buildings in Manchester : "while Liverpool thinks, Manchester constructs"

Tall buildings in Birmingham : "the new image of the city"

Tall buildings in Oslo : "the blue, the green and city in between"

Tall buildings in Dublin : property-led regeneration within an evolving conservation planning framework

Tall buildings in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne : "reconciling the past with the present"

Tall buildings in Vancouver : celebrating "the cult of the view"

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415581073

0415581079

9780415581080

0415581087

OCLC:

712124040