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'The best parts of the book take us on a whirlwind tour of green belts and their substitutes, in places as far part as China, Spain, Holland and the USA. ... In the book's best chapter, Rob Roggema makes the case for [The Randstadt's] success.' Context

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Peter Bishop is Professor of Urban Design at The Bartlett School of Architecture and the founding partner of Bishop & Williams Ltd. Between 2006 and 2011 he was Director of Design for London, the Mayor’s architecture think-tank and design studio. He is a fellow of University College London and the RIBA, and an adviser to the city of Goyang in Korea and on major regeneration projects in London, Sydney and Riyadh. Alona Martinez Perez is Senior Lecturer at the Leicester School of Architecture and Programme Leader for the MSc International Urban Design, De Montfort University. Originally from Bilbao, she trained as an architect in England and Scotland, holding qualifications in both architecture and urban design. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield. Previous roles include Lecturer in Architecture at Plymouth University (2013-2017) and the University of Ulster (2009-2013). Rob Roggema is Landscape Architect and Professor of Spatial Transformations at ‘NoorderRuimte’, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands, and a visiting academic at Western Sydney University and KEIO University in Tokyo. From 2016 to 2018, he was Professor of Urban Environments at UTS in Sydney. Rob is currently series editor of ‘Contemporary Urban Design Thinking’ (Springer). Lesley Williams is Partner at Bishop & Williams Ltd.

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