Regional & Area Planning

Architecture plays a powerful role in nation building. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they also reflect t...

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, Europe...

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for ...

The fourth book in Nadia Amorosos Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape ar...

Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) is famous worldwide for founding the Garden City movement, and he continues to be frequently cited by planners and theo...

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

This open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage f...

Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-enco...

Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem i...

Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and...

Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again move...

This book provides students and professionals with practical answers to important career and communication questions, helping them to communicate s...

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events. It uncovers the financing of ...

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how w...

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how w...

Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distributi...

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional ...

The application of technology, in smart cities, to create meaningful sustainability is set to change all our lives. The smart city of the future wi...

Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produc...

I have been looking for a book which does this for ages! It provides a clear explanation of the different elements and concepts which underpin how ...

Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood. Fully revised with important new policy, case studies and international analysis...

Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood. Fully revised with important new policy, case studies and international analysis...

Sheppard and Smith provide a clear, accessible and friendly guide to studying to become a planner, with great tips, insight and advice including w...

Sheppard and Smith provide a clear, accessible and friendly guide to studying to become a planner, with great tips, insight and advice including w...

The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies is an authoritative survey of contemporary transportation systems examined in terms of economic, social, and...

Local regeneration, and action on local issues, is fundamental to the sustainability of local communities. This is especially the case in the UK, w...

Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, expe...

A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration i...

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanizat...

Globalization has been built upon, and maintained by, major urban centers. As the interconnections among these cities grow, more cities become invo...

Market Analysis for Real Estate is a comprehensive introduction to how real estate markets work and the analytical tools and techniques that can be...

The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of informatio...