Regional & Area Planning

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

In aiming to understand and model peoples out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. ...

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healt...

In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stori...

Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration a...

This book provides practicing planners with the knowledge of how to bring real world planning projects to a successful and efficient. It applies th...

European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic. For many people transport provision is unsatisfactory and current arran...

There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the...

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approache...

Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theore...

In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of infor...

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confin...

This book presents a case study of one of Latin Americas most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic e...

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-e...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the U...

Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addre...

Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Desi...

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States. What happened next a...

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies. Contractual relations have in...

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, ...

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies. Under a multidiscplinar...

Despite the current recession, the frequency of second home ownership is still surprisingly high throughout the western world. While the UK and Ire...

This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Prio...