Regional & Area Planning

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them a...

Temporary urban uses innovative ways to transform cities or new means to old ends? The scale and variety of temporary or meanwhile or interim ur...

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in Am...

Degrowth, a type of postgrowth, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond c...

Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many ...

Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on ...

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already...

Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles poss...

Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades t...

Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning is the definitive introduction to public consultation for developers, students and planne...

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kongs urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and...

More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major poli...

The story of a struggle spearheaded by one man against a whole system of destruction, this book follows Shyam Chainani's passionate and dedicated b...

Discover how one spectacular building project transformed Miami from a fractious tropical city to a cultural capital of the Americas. In Center of ...

Institutions the state, the church, the army, the judiciary, the university, the bank, etc. organise social relations. As social structures, they ...

Amid Japans political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenz Tanges Pla...

Economic corridorsambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertakingare dramatical...

The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before ...

Bringing together leading writers and practicing architects including Jean Dethier, David Mayernik, Massimo Scolari, Robert Adam, David Watkin and ...

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that str...

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposalfrom burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in s...

Generally, textbooks on urban geography and urban planning are based on ideas laid out in the west and are unable to explicitly connect those ideas...

This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses...

New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable pull of the city even as they lament the demise of rural America

Containing the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability this book addresses the multi-disciplinary ...

Climate change, increasing resource scarcity, and rising traffic volumes are forcing us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented...

Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Afri...

Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) ...

This book is about changing the way we do public administration. It is about the wielding of administrative discretion in the implementation of a c...

Operator fatigue and sleep deprivation have been widely recognised as critical safety issues that cut across all modes in the transportation indust...

This book examines greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels and trends from the transportation sector and analyses the full range of strategies availab...

The steep rise in road mobility that has taken place during the last decades has resulted in some negative effects that are relevant from a social ...