Regional & Area Planning

Compatibility, ethics, hearings, record keeping, variances, and appeals. There are so many things board of adjustment members must consider-and so ...

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy. The stimulus for this work was provided by the seemingly ever-ac...

Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools ...

Asian transportation systems and services, as well as their usage, are fraught with challenges. This handbook therefore seeks to examine the possib...

More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world. A Hom...

Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018. Chan...

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In...

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points ...

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outb...

This book is recommended reading for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. Too often, no one is happy with new development: Public officials mu...

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

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

Oil Spaces traces petroleums impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refine...

There has been increased emphasis on smart cities due to the economic, environmental and technological shifts that have impacted on society. This b...

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyd...

This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbooks scope by inc...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...

The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairos urban spaces. The...

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in d...

Big Data, Code and the Discrete City explores how digital technologies are gradually changing the way in which the public space is designed by arch...

Place, Pedagogy and Play connects landscape architecture with education, psychology, public health and planning. Over the course of thirteen chapte...