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Short, Michael J.

Planning for tall buildings / txt Michael J. Short. - First published 2012 - xii, 222 p. ill., maps 24 cm. book

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN: 9780415581073 9780415581080

LCCN: 2011033725

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Tall buildings--Social aspects.
City planning

LC Class. No.: NA6230 / S36 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 720/.483