Regional & Area Planning

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

Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This b...

The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, th...

The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twent...

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

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

Todays most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influ...

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting. D...

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural m...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux...

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon. To some, the term encompasses innovation, change and commitme...

Revitalizing railways as a major sustainable transport mode in modern societies faces many issues and challenges. This in-depth overview places the...

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in...

This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific pl...

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...

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of...

Jaqueline Tyrwhitts life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role ...

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most comp...

Originally published in French as Le territoire européen: des racines aux enjeux globaux, this book reflects the enormous changes that Europe has s...

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It pr...

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastruc...