Regional & Area Planning

A journey through Europes old towns, exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history  [A] fascinating chro...

Improving the competitiveness of Kazakhstan as a transport logistics centre at the crossroads of Europe and Asia could enable the country to unlock...

Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses pri...

This book presents a fully comprehensive look at what all communitieslarge and small, urban and ruralcan do to grow and sustain their local economi...

On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattans Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early riser...

Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests a...

Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to...

Our world is becoming more urban. More than fifty percent of the global population now lives in cities, which poses new challenges for sustainable ...

In this richly visual narrative, acclaimed historian Susan Schulten explores five centuries of American history through maps. From the voyages of E...

This book is an essential primer to help those involved in the planning process secure higher standards of urban design and the delivery of better ...

Why are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to European cities, those in the United States are characterized by lower densiti...

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of com...

With over half of the world's population now living in urban areas, the ability to model and understand the structure and dynamics of cities is bec...

Since antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yegül offer a compr...

Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity, changing patterns in land use, pollution, climate change, public access and increasing demands for...

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of ...

A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to re...

Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas...

American's landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as demand grows for a different kind of American Dream - smaller homes on smaller lots...

This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to ...

This trailblazing book outlines a tested interdisciplinary process model for urban design. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city...

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D....

Since the first publication of this landmark textbook in 2004, it has received high praise for its clear, comprehensive, and practical approach. Th...

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only ...

This book argues that the issues surrounding sustainable transport constitute a new - post-modern - phase in transport policy and management

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neig...

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years experie...

A dynamically written visual history of the world's largest transit system in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory packed with compel...

Municipalities around the world face important water supply challenges. One response has been alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponent...

The United StatesIndia nuclear cooperation agreement to resume civilian nuclear technology trade with Indiaa non-signatory of the Nuclear Nonprolif...

Safe mobility is clearly linked to transport sustainability, as fatalities and injuries resulting from people engaged with transport networks incre...

This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial Ethiopia made in its journey towards urbanization into the modern era, and undertakes ...

Design professors detail a new ecodesign framework that integrates urban design with environmental conservation to make cities more desirable, low-...

How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problemspoverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic poll...

How do you achieve effective low-carbon design beyond the building level? How do you create a community that is both liveable and sustainable? More...

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulatio...

Racial strife, increased social and economic discrimination, amplified political friction, and growing uncertainty around the impacts of the COVID-...

What is the role of citizens in urban development decision-making processes? In answer of this globally relevant question, Aline Delatte offers a c...

Today, more than 50% of the worlds population lives in cities and is subject to particular environmental and economic impacts against the backdrop ...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietname...

Viewed from the mainland the history of the archipelago appears as a long list of non-invited but irresistible disembarkations. Viewed from on an i...

Faith Made Flesh brings together the experience, insight, and stories of those actively addressing societal and educational disadvantages of Black ...

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of po...