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The Temporary City
Peter Bishop
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Description for The Temporary City
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 277 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 934.
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Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planning and design strategies. Similarly, there has been relatively little analysis of the importance of interim, short-term or ‘meanwhile’ activities in urban areas. In...
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
942g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415670562
SKU
V9780415670562
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99-1
About Peter Bishop
Peter Bishop trained in town planning at Manchester University and has spent his entire career working in London. Over the past 25 years he has been a Planning Director in four different Central London boroughs and has worked on major projects including Canary Wharf, the development of the BBC’s campus at White City and the King's Cross development. In 2006...
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"...a hugely inspiring read." – Property Week "The Temporary City is a welcome addition to the literature on planning and regeneration – whilst written independently of the recent Mary Portas review of Britain’s high streets, the book deals, from a different direction, with many similar issues affecting our cities. Coming from authors with a practical grounding in the issues of...
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