Regional & Area Planning

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...

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challen...

Acculturating the Shopping Centre examines whether the shopping centre should be qualified as a global architectural type that effortlessly moves a...

European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological c...

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided fl...

First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded. Ea...

This book examines how rural Europe as a hybrid social and natural environment emerged as a key site of local, national and international governanc...

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the f...

Decentralization in Environmental Governance is a critical reflection on the dangers and risks of governance renewal; warning against one-sided cri...

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It...

In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more evident than in t...

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and crea...

Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have si...

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts...