Regional & Area Planning

This title was first published in 2003. Korea has had considerable success in developing its high technology industries and these have become signi...

Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of confli...

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to t...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provi...

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north Indi...

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in con...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

This book presents an in-depth look at US infrastructure and its challenges in the 21st century. While infrastructure has received considerable att...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

This book is on the suggested reading list for planners preparing to take the AICP exam. As veteran planner the author points out, the most trouble...

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...