Regional & Area Planning

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities ...

This book addresses the analysis of self-containment of employment (SCE), which measures journey-to-work trips among the percentage of workers who ...

In the past few years, interest in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown. Advances in battery and other technologies, new federal standards fo...

Narratives, in the context of urban planning, matter profoundly. Planning theory and practice have taken an increasing interest in the role and pow...

At around 100 years old, Burgenland is the youngest province in Austria, even though it was already developed by the Celts and Romans. The climate ...

Accounting for about three-quarters of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, the transformation of energy networks is a pivotal step toward plane...

This book questions the current definition of what makes a product sustainable and argues that a holistic approach to sustainable product design is...

This book questions the current definition of what makes a product sustainable and argues that a holistic approach to sustainable product design is...

Architecture and Social Change is a timely, and urgently needed, survey of social and environmental justice advocacy in architecture. Spotlighting ...

Architecture and Social Change is a timely, and urgently needed, survey of social and environmental justice advocacy in architecture. Spotlighting ...

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radic...

Once heralded as the Black Mecca of the South, Atlantas Black community is currently under threat of dislocation by cultural gentrification. Amid t...

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an enc...

The Countryside: Planning and Change (1981) examines the relationship between policies and their actual effects on the countryside, throwing light ...

This is a book about urban complexity how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin citie...

This companion explores a range of conceptual and practical relationships between sound and space across various disciplines, providing insights fr...

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators ...

Most contemporary cities are subject to growing levels of operational complexity and forecasting uncertainty, a fact that inevitably increases the ...

As cities continue to grow and evolve, the challenges of building sustainable, resilient, and efficient urban environments have never been greater....

This open access book outlines the latest results in analysing, assessing, and managing terrorist risk in the urban outdoor built environment. In d...

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

Engaging Children and Young People in Planning places planners skills for engagement with children and young people centre stage by discussing seve...

This book draws on authors wealth of knowledge working on numerous projects across many countries. It provides a clear overview of the development ...

First published in 1954, The Genesis of Modern British Town Planning is a study from a historical standpoint of the social and economic factors whi...

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the regions original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century Philade...

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing c...

In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing c...

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a...

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthou...

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer...

Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth...

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaughs Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It ...

Urban design and planning involves the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, with a particular focus on public spaces such...

What does a comparative approach add to our understanding of Canadian municipal government, city governance, and municipal policy-making? Canadian ...

What does a comparative approach add to our understanding of Canadian municipal government, city governance, and municipal policy-making? Canadian ...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of archi...

In the scholarship of urbanism, small towns are overlooked and understudied. Rebuilding the American Town highlights how smaller municipalities are...

In the scholarship of urbanism, small towns are overlooked and understudied. Rebuilding the American Town highlights how smaller municipalities are...

Originally published in 1997, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

This book brings together cutting-edge exploratory research findings to show how a vision for sustainable communities can be enabled by digital tra...

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. ...

Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, New Directions in Environmental Participation was the third in a trilogy...