Regional & Area Planning

Compatibility, ethics, hearings, record keeping, variances, and appeals. There are so many things board of adjustment members must consider-and so ...

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-ac...

Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools ...

Asian transportation systems and services, as well as their usage, are fraught with challenges. This handbook therefore seeks to examine the possib...

More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world. A Hom...

Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018. Chan...

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In...

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points ...

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outb...

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. Too often, no one is happy with new development: Public officials mu...

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society. This b...

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyd...

This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbooks scope by inc...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...

The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairos urban spaces. The...

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in d...

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies are gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed by arch...

Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning. Over the course of thirteen chapte...

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challen...

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves a...

European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological c...

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided fl...

First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded. Ea...

This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local, national and international governanc...

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the f...

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided cri...

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It...

In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more evident than in t...

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and crea...

Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have si...

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts...

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

First published in 2006, as numerous local authorities of European cities invest in the attractiveness of their urban areas in the hope of attracti...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

This title was first published in 2003. The European Union is constantly struggling to find effective ways to plan major transport infrastructure d...

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in ...

Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in...

This title was first published in 2001. Planning today has to deal with a completely different world from the one in which many of the basic ways o...

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant ...

Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuzes most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable...

Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City is an exploration into the reinvention, self-reflection and boosterism of US legacy cities, taking...