Regional & Area Planning

Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of single industry towns, which emer...

In their unrelenting drive to create a thriving desert metropolis, leaders of the most populous city in the arid Southwest, Phoenix, Arizona, seeme...

This book''''s objective is to present a comprehensive, theoretical, practical, and adaptive approach to understanding the issues involved in eco-c...

Since the smart component became one of the pillars of the European Unions development, many cities, particularly post-socialist ones, have perceiv...

Geotourism is a new, emerging scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth science in the study of natural and human tourism resources...

Tokyo's seemingly endless sea of buildings has grown incrementally over the past centuries, leading to an urban condition that is both coherent and...

How do we prepare for and manage the challenges and the transformations that are increasingly confronting cities? Solutions are necessary for the i...

In Land Use Planning and the Environment, the authors have dramatically revised and updated a classic, seminal casebook, Land-Use Planning. Designe...

The book takes off with a general overview which is an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. The next chapter is an analysis of the patte...

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the way...

States and their local governments have practical tools to help combat urban sprawl, protect farmland, promote affordable housing, and encourage re...

From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for i...

Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain t...

This accessible text introduces the history, theory and key issues of planning. It is designed to give those new to the subject, both planning and ...

Planning is central to ensuring children and young people live in safe, secure places, that they are included and can be active. There can be few a...

The only book out there to draw together all the disparate law on highways in development projects Managing and providing highways and highway impr...

This is an invaluable resource for design and planning students to understand how to create resilient, regenerative, and beautiful places. From Hen...

What did the 2012 Olympics tell us about who we are, who we were, and who we want to be? This book takes 2012 as a starting point for a debate on ...

Community involvement in planning and placemaking through early, inclusive participatory Charrette processes can build consensus, speed up planning...

The 8th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning is part of a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable re...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touc...