Regional & Area Planning

A long-time Austinite and journalists exploration of the profound movements that have shaped Austin, Texascharting the shifts within its vibrant mu...

This book analyses international Green Infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies. The GI strategy is widely recognized for its multifuncti...

This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected gre...

The rapid increase in urban population, land prices and land preservation, urban regeneration, as well as globalization and climate change have bee...

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so u...

Exploring creative responses to community challenges Creative Instigation is a collection of in-depth case stories focused on effective and innovat...

Exploring creative responses to community challenges Creative Instigation is a collection of in-depth case stories focused on effective and innovat...

This key planning textbook on designing healthy and sustainable communities informs planners about community life and the processes of planning and...

Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice to experts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessing the quality of preparedness...

This book includes extended and revised selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2...

With the continual growth of the world's urban population, biodiversity in towns and cities will play a critical role in global biodiversity. This ...

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urb...

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urb...

Done at Geneva on 1 September 1970 and entered into force on 21 November 1976, the objectives of the Agreement on the International Carriage of Per...

The objective of the volume of selected peer-reviewed papers from EBUILT-2016 Conference (Romania, 2016) is the presentation of latest researches a...

This book introduces an indispensable tool: the carbon footprint calculator for urban planning. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, urban...

Nick Patsaouras arrived from Athens at age 17. After establishing a successful electrical engineering firm, Nick decided to give back to his adopte...

This book analyses of public participation in the different development stages of urban renewal in Macao. Three types of participation are summariz...

As transport networks become more congested, there is a growing need to adopt policies that manage demand and make full use of existing assets. Adv...

This is the book that Canadians must read to understand, and solve, our housing crisis. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians exist on the edge. Rente...

Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the United States and has long been a prime destination for international migrants from Latin America,...

Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the United States and has long been a prime destination for international migrants from Latin America,...

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which the...

This book introduces the use of various remote sensing data such as microwave, hyperspectral and very high-resolution (VHR) satellite imagery; mapp...

Examining the rise of Pudong and its role in re-creating Shanghai as a global city, Global Shanghai Remade utilises this important case study to sh...

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global cl...