Regional & Area Planning

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoo...

Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban wilderness landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, th...

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan. It is a collection that narrates, ...

In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of...

Chinas unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a t...

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

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent...

Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart ...

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together ac...

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulat...

Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto...

Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping o...

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces. It provides a ...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

Business retention and expansion (BRE) is regarded as the most practical and accessible method for economic development at the city, town, or neigh...

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact o...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search ...

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly ...

Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnecti...

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of t...

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the im...

In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable p...