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Good cities, better lives : how Europe discovered the lost art of urbanism / Peter Hall ; with contributions from Nicholas Falk.

Author: Hall, Peter 1932 March 19-

ImprintAbingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

Descriptionx, 346 p. ; 25 cm

Note:Building the new Jerusalem: five challenges for cities. Part one: Facing the challenges. 1. The first challenge: rebalancing our urban economies. -- 2. The second challenge: building new homes -- 3. The third challenge: linking people and places -- 4. The fourth challenge: living with finite resources -- 5. The fifth challenge: fixing broken machinery. Part two: Learning from model cities: a twenty-first-century grand tour. -- 6. The sixth challenge: going on tour -- 7. Boosting economic growth in Germany -- 8. Building sustainable suburbs in the Netherlands -- 9. France uses transport to develop and regenerate cities -- 10. Conserving resources in Scandinavia: Stockholm and Copenhagen-Malmo. -- 11. Freiburg: the city that did it all. Part three: Lessons from Europe. -- 12. Learning the lessons.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.



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Author:
Hall, Peter 1932 March 19-
Subject:
Urban policy -- Great Britain.
Urban policy -- Europe.
Urbanization -- Great Britain.
Urbanization -- Europe.
Regional planning -- Europe.
Regional economics -- Europe.
City planning -- Europe.
Contributor
Falk, Nicholas.