Regional & Area Planning

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe. How it is defined, implemented and measured at the local le...

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

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their percept...

The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impos...

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

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon elec...

Virtually every city-region in West and Central Europe has developed policies and strategies to attract, retain and encourage creative industries a...

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographi...

This title was first published in 2001. A delightfully oriented selection of international state-of-the-art research in applied regional science, t...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...

Now that your planning degree is in sight or in hand, how and where can you find your dream job? Once you're on the job, what can you do to not jus...

With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multif...

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, senti...

This book provides a critical understanding of the challenges that exist in protecting the local and global environment through compliance efforts ...

Twenty-five years into transformation, Central and Eastern European regions have undergone substantial socio-economic restructuring, integrating in...

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confr...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

With the rise of shared and networked vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and other transportation technologies, technological change is outpacing urban...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the global(i...

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublins mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporat...