Regional & Area Planning

Soil properties such as water retention, salinity and acidity are not just issues for agriculture and forestry. They are equally as significant in ...

At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or soc...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

Rapid industrialisation is promoted by many as the most feasible way of rejuvenating the Indian economy, and as a way of generating employment on a...

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication c...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, th...

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts, social s...

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy sol...

The Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development...

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

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this...

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materi...

Two of the key theoretical shifts over the past two decades of critical work have been the 'visual turn' and the 'material turn'. This book argues ...

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offe...

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modeled and optimized. Starting ...

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate...

An Introduction to European Intergovernmental Organizations provides an up-to-date and accessible reference to European intergovernmental organizat...

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned ne...

Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and l...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

Extended methods of analysis for urbanisation processes illustrated in eight world regions. Urbanisation processes are unfolding far beyond the re...

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today, half the world's population is urb...