The Byron Journal has reached an impressive milestone this month with the publication of its 50th issue. To celebrate, we're sharing a selection of Free to Read articles for the month alongside books about the poet. Take a look via the LUP blog:
The Built Environment Transformed: Illustration details
Taking a case-study approach, The Built Environment Transformed discusses the remarkable changes made to the built environment in textile Lancashire - essentially the eastern and central parts of the county – during the Industrial Revolution (c1780-c1850). Developments in industry, housing and transport are emphasised, drawing particularly on the physical evidence the sites provide. The illustrations … Continue reading
Featured in Town Planning Review 93.6: The substantive and descriptive representation of women in planning
"The ways we experience our built environment are gendered. The needs of women and girls are not always considered within the planning process".
Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy and France
S.C. Kaplan takes us through her experience writing Women's Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair. This new book is about women's reading and their intellectual influence--on each other, but also on the men around them and on the different French-speaking courts more generally--as demonstrated through the literature that they shared with … Continue reading
Featured in International Development Planning Review 44.4: Uncovering the individual/collective divide in planning responses to informal settlements as a structural cause of tenure insecurity in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
“The current pressures on Phnom Penh’s urban environment caused by neoliberalism and the rise of China as a global and economic political actor create an environment of dispossession and displacement for the urban poor where land title is not sufficient to guarantee tenure security.”- Johanna Brugman on her article 'Uncovering the individual/collective divide in planning responses to informal settlements as a structural cause of tenure insecurity in Phnom Penh, Cambodia', the latest Featured Article from IDPR. Available to read for free via Open Access.
