Regional & Area Planning

It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces where people live, w...

First published in 1999, this book breaks new ground by treating the restrictive covenant from the aspect of the control of land use. At its heart ...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

This title was first published in 2000. Since the 1970s there has been widespread debate on the potential of information communication technologies...

This title was first published in 2000. Providing an introduction to contemporary regional economic development issues, this book analyzes whether ...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

Long-sighted, radical and provocative, this book offers a foundational framework of concepts, principles and methods (exemplified with selected too...

This book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varie...

After 1945 it was not just Europes parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new...

This book is for the well-meaning idealists city planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers who are frustrated working within the ...

To best serve current and future generations, infrastructure needs to be resilient to the changing world while using limited resources in a sustain...

This volume explains the board's responsibilities and the limits of its power; discusses common types of zoning cases; provides model rules of proc...

The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academi...

This title was first published in 2001. Examining state-driven programmes of land reform, this book provides an important examination of the transf...

Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increas...

This title was first published in 2003. The UK transport White Paper A New Deal for Transport and new Transport Acts for England, Wales and Scotlan...

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to tho...

Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities brings together scientific reflections on the relations of art and urban mobilities and artistic research on...

This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we ...

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies...

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting. D...

In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects. Amid the fast-pace...

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specif...

Offshore wind farms are being developed on a major scale around the UK coastline as part of the drive to increase renewable energy production. This...

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns...

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing polit...

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and co...

Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyzes two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey Karanfilköy and Fatih Sultan ...

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning ...

What factors contribute to tourism and recreation development? How can we characterise stakeholder rationales and organisation modes to enhance tou...

According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a p...

Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is s...

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most comp...

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 title was first published in 2002: Uniting scholars from across the full range of social sciences, this distinctive volume provides a unique o...

This title was first published in 2000. Providing an introduction to contemporary regional economic development issues, this book analyzes whether ...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

Political Postmodernisms shows how sites outside of Western Europe and North America undermine an established narrative of architecture theory and ...

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Fore...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church ...

This title was first published in 2003. Bringing together the two fields of land reform and law, this volume examines the role the law and lawyers ...

This book offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development. Linking two British inner-city c...

FRONT TO BACK sees urban housing as places to live rather than individual buildings. Using a unique design agenda it provides a step by step approa...

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It i...

This title was first published in 2002. One of the greatest concerns facing the world is how to ensure that sustainable outcomes are generated as g...

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...