Regional & Area Planning

This book will explore a new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in our contemporary world. A...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation. They are prime locations of innovation, while at the same time facing growing problems...

Despite its historical significance and its state-mandated comprehensive planning approach, the Florida growth management experiment has received o...

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and h...

This book presents the current research on space-based navigation models and the contents of spaces used for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainabi...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book...

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobss legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs,...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

Pointing the way to the future of research and development in relation to cycling as a mode of transport, this book investigates some of the signif...

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour gove...

The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a ...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far bee...

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss ...

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased...

***Winner of Architectural Guide of the Year at the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical de...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

In aiming to understand and model peoples out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. ...

This title was first published in 2001. The question this thesis attempts to answer is summarized as follows: what accounts for the amazing stabili...

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a co...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...

Environmental quality is one of the most important issues faced by contemporary urban and regional policy. Amenities such as access to the natural ...

This book will explore a new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in our contemporary world. A...

The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility pol...

For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of thos...

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power t...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion ...

This title was first published in 2000: Providing a review and assessment of a number of the major features evident in regional planning and develo...

This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-rangin...

This title was first published in 2003. What is the meaning of sustainable mobility? Is there a European common transport policy? To what extent is...

This title was first published in 2003. Schumpeter first put forward the premise that the incessant turbulence of an economy in motion, carrying ou...

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...

Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues facing many US cities, leading to the creation and adoption of a variety of approaches to control gr...

Illustrated by case studies from Europe, North America and the Middle East, this book examines how non-market values can be identified, measured an...

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and a...

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The...

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformati...