Regional & Area Planning

Houses, and other spaces and environments in which people spend their time, have a crucial impact on quality of life. We are increasingly living in...

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and a...

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...

In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors b...

Illustrated by a range of case studies of affordable housing options in Canada, this book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-firs...

Over the last two decades new and significant demographic, economic, social and environmental changes and challenges have shaped the production and...

Urban and regional development in the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries has experienced rapid changes since their re-i...

The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, l...

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europes large cities. They are faced wi...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

With the expansion of the European Union, the countries of Southeast Europe have finally been brought together within one socio-political entity. T...

With origins in the late 1960s, a 'quiet revolution' in land use planning and control has taken hold across North America. First seen as a manifest...

This book will explore a new approach to airport planning that better captures the complexities and velocity of change in our contemporary world. A...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation. They are prime locations of innovation, while at the same time facing growing problems...

Despite its historical significance and its state-mandated comprehensive planning approach, the Florida growth management experiment has received o...

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and h...

This book presents the current research on space-based navigation models and the contents of spaces used for seamless indoor and outdoor navigation...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainabi...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood. This book...

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobss legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs,...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

Pointing the way to the future of research and development in relation to cycling as a mode of transport, this book investigates some of the signif...

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour gove...

The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a ...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far bee...

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss ...

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased...

***Winner of Architectural Guide of the Year at the Architectural Book Awards 2024***The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical de...