Regional & Area Planning

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for cre...

Amman, the capital of Jordan, contends with a crisis of identity rooted in how it grew to become a symbol for the Anglo-Hashemite government first,...

Governments, communities, and developers are considering the use of ICT, renewable energies, and a host of other technologies to build smart cities...

How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by world cities and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomera...

The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level Fully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Co...

How do trees help reduce violence? What do roads have to do with chronic disease? Prevention Diaries examines the unexpected yet empirically predic...

On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its ele...

Comprehensive learning resource providing a framework for successful application of advanced transportation technologies in urban areas Smart Mobil...

This book focuses on the city of Barcelona, specifically in regards to its grid-style design. The author proposes a number of original intervention...

Seven of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) are directly related to sustainable infrastructure development. The ma...

Bringing together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan, this book offe...

Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design follows on from the authors previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to ...

Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the p...

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban...

Becoming an architect is a daunting task. Beyond the acquisition of new skills and procedures, beginning designers face an entirely unfamiliar mode...

Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexitie...

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and percept...