Planning for tall buildings

Short, Michael J.

Planning for tall buildings [Book] / Michael J. Short. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012. - xii, 222 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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.

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Tall buildings--Social aspects.
City planning.

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