The Battle for Tolmers Square
The Battle for Tolmers Square

Author: Nick Wates

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0415658926

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First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants' groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties, and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London. The author describes how property developers, interested only in maximising profits, attempted to redevelop the Tolmers area for offices, while the local authority, pressurised by local tenants and faced with a housing shortage, tried to redevelop for housing. This book is about the politics of central city redevelopment. Although this text focuses on one particular case study, the same processes operate in all cities where land is used as a commodity for financial speculation. By tracing the Tolmers case in detail, this text demonstrates the forces which operate in city redevelopment, and shows the affect which various forms of opposition can have.

Europe 1715-1919
Europe 1715-1919

Author: Shirley Elson Roessler

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2003-12-09

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0742568792

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Europe 1715-1919 explores the tumultuous period in European history between the Age of Enlightenment and World War I. By integrating political, social, economic, and cultural history, Shirley Elson Roessler and Reny Miklos provide an entertaining and comprehensive account of the emergence of modern Europe. With clear and eloquent prose, the book explains the ideas of the Enlightenment and their effect on the social fabric of Europe, the watershed of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the advances of the Industrial Revolution, and the centrifugal forces of nationalism that led, ultimately, to the disaster of World War I. Eminently readable, Europe 1715-1919 will appeal to students, scholars, and all interested in the history of modern Europe.

Adaptive Reuse
Adaptive Reuse

Author: Liliane Wong

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3038213136

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Building in existing fabric requires more than practical solutions and stylistic skills. The adaptive reuse of buildings, where changes in the structure go along with new programs and functions, poses the fundamental question of how the past should be included in the design for the future. On the background of long years of teaching and publishing, and using vivid imagery from Frankenstein to Rem Koolhaas and beyond, the author provides a comprehensive introduction to architectural design for adaptive reuse projects. History and theory, building typology, questions of materials and construction, aspects of preservation, urban as well as interior design are dealt with in ways that allow to approach adaptive reuse as a design practice field of its own right.

Resilient Cities, Second Edition
Resilient Cities, Second Edition

Author: Peter Newman

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2017-06

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1610916859

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Drawing from research and examples about resilient cities, this book looks at new initiatives and innovations cities can implement.

A Vision for London, 1889-1914
A Vision for London, 1889-1914

Author: Susan D. Pennybacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-11-08

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1134959958

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The London County Council was a the world's largest municipal government and a laboratory for social experimentation before the Great War. It sought to master the problems of metropolitan amelioration, political economy and public culture. Pennybacker's social history tests the vision of London Progressivism against its practitioners' accomplishments. She argues that the historical memory of the hopes inspired by LCC achievement and the disillusions spawned by failure, are potent forces in today's deeply ambivalent responses to metropolitan politics in London. The `new women', bohemian London, scandal in the building industry, midwifery, lodging houses, children's provision and the music hall were all provocative issues in LCC work. Their story richly evokes life in the turn-of-the-century metropolis and illustrates the complexities of `municipal socialism'.