Product Description

On average, from 2000 to 2025, Britain will need almost four million additional households. How can these be provided without the endless "development" of the countryside, or stretching already strained urban resources? This work tackles these issues.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66421 in Books
• Published on: 2000-11-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 314 pages

Customer Reviews

Readable guide to the implications of the urban white paper
Richard Rogers and Anne Power have together written an incisive and colourful book about how we can improve the infrastructure, prosperity and atmosphere of our cities. The book explains the implications of the urban white paper, and uses examples from around the world to demonstrate how British cities can be improved, sometimes very easily. As we expand rapidly, our search for new homes should turn to the inner cities rather than to our countryside. Very readable, and a worthwhile study of where our cities have come from and where they're going.

A Small Package with Substantial Content`
This is indeed a very welcome book. As a kind of companion volume this works better than 'Cities for a small planet', Anne Power's focus on comunnity development adding very much the Rogers vision of sustainable, urban space.

While there are many good books currently in print which look at cities, few are as concise and as readable as this. And yet alongside the text is a wealth of diapgrams, facts, figures and amazing prohotgraphs which will keep every urban 'stato' happy.

This is one book which suceeds in mixing both the exciting potential of urban life in this country, with the very real difficulties faced by those who live there and those who are responsible for planning a better future.

All this, and a trendy cover too. What more coud you want :-)