Regional & Area Planning

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recove...

Participatory Rural Planning presents the argument that citizen participation in planning affairs transcends a rights-based legitimacy and an all t...

Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces i...

Is the automobility regime experiencing a transition towards sustainability? To answer that question, this book investigates stability and change i...

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the...

This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agric...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

Since the end of Apartheid, there has been a new orientation in South African art and design, turning away from the colonial aesthetics to new type...

Aquaculture technology has been evolving rapidly over the last two decades, led by an increasingly skilled cadre of researchers in developing count...

Aquaculture technology has been evolving rapidly over the last two decades, led by an increasingly skilled cadre of researchers in developing count...

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on ...

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on ...

The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications. This volume explores t...

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing. Metaphorically speaking, it is taking comput...

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes mel...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290626, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribut...

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The...

Industrial tourism presents opportunities, both in terms of income and as a tool of management, for individual firms who open their doors - and con...

Recent history has seen Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) cities undergoing several transitions. Their cities have developed under socialism (1945 1...

In recent years, the social sciences have taken a mobilities turn. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not just happen. Mobi...

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource manageme...

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource manageme...

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource manageme...

In celebration of cooperatives contributions to community development processes and outcomes worldwide, the United Nations designated 2012 as the Y...

Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade. A period of upward economic ind...

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far bee...

There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region wh...

Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and pro...

The last two decades have seen a marked growth in comparative research within the field of housing studies. This reflects the increasing globalisat...

In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space ...

Now in paperback: a deeply researched and reported (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of sea level rise in California that breathes exquisite de...

The housing crisis confronts two of North Americas contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densif...

The housing crisis confronts two of North Americas contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densif...

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

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new s...

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

This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial elements in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from th...

A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery ...

Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. For...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

This open access book showcases innovative collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and Science, Technology, Engineering, an...

Placemaking: People, Properties, Planning, delivers a cross-disciplinary critique of placemaking, an approach to the design and creation of new urb...

Climate Crisis, Energy Violence: Mapping Fossil Energys Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future communicates the breadth and scope of fossil fuel i...

Focuses on the lives and labour of the men and women who work in Nairobi's publicly operated, privately owned minibus taxis, matatu. How can mass...

This book contains the papers presented at the nineteenth annual International Conference on Urban Transport and the Environment. The papers cover...

This book delves into the concept of city-sea interface as a space of strong physical, ecological, social and functional connection between the edg...