Regional & Area Planning

The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is the first comprehensive handbook with a unique focus on planning education. Comparing...

When manufacturers and retailers vacate traditional locations, they leave holes in a citys fabric that signal a shifting urban-industrial terrain. ...

In June of 1962, the Canadian Pacific Railway announced a proposalto redevelop part of its reserved land in the heart of downtownCalgary. In an eff...

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through...

By 2025, China will have built fifteen new supercities each with 25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 Eco-cities' as well: clean, green...

After a decade of steady investment and construction, Chinese railways have evolved into an era of high-speed. This book has two objectives. The fi...

This volume compiles contributions from international scholars on the social impacts of urban mobility and discussions on concepts and methods to e...

This volume seeks to answer modern questions and concerns regarding peasants, their production techniques, and their links to wider society. In the...

The requirement for sustainable transport in urban areas has become more onerous in the past decade due to a number of negative externalities which...

This book will bring a state of the art overview of the research done in sustainable logistics. It will be structured along the four A's of sustain...

The aim of this book is to understand the causes and consequences of new scales and forms of territorial restructuring in a steadily globalizing wo...

The United Nations Brundtland Report defines sustainable development as one that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of...

The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World...

Travel by car invariably involves the use of a car parking space at the start and end of the journey, the provision of which impacts on travel dema...

This collection is a study of the process by which European planning concepts and practices were transmitted, diffused and diverted in various colo...

With 70% of the worlds population expected to live in urban environments by 2050, cities are poised to become the most significant spaces to shape ...

The ten essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. These c...

How does the state separate music from noise? How can such a filtering apparatus shape the content and form of sound production in the city? As a m...

Condoland casts CityPlace a massive residential development of more than thirty condominium towers just outside Torontos downtown core as a micro...

Effective urban governance is essential in responding to the challenges of inequality, migration, public health, housing, security, and climate cha...

In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of th...

Suburbanised cities share a common dilemma: how to transition to more densely populated and socially connected urban systems while retaining low-ri...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Over half the worlds population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builder...