Regional & Area Planning

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

In aiming to understand and model peoples out-of-home movements, the academic field of transport planning is confronted with two major challenges. ...

This title was first published in 2001. The question this thesis attempts to answer is summarized as follows: what accounts for the amazing stabili...

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a co...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...

Environmental quality is one of the most important issues faced by contemporary urban and regional policy. Amenities such as access to the natural ...

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

The key aim of this volume is to demonstrate ways in which an understanding of history can be used to inform present-day transport and mobility pol...

For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of thos...

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power t...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion ...

This title was first published in 2000: Providing a review and assessment of a number of the major features evident in regional planning and develo...

This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-rangin...

This title was first published in 2003. What is the meaning of sustainable mobility? Is there a European common transport policy? To what extent is...

This title was first published in 2003. Schumpeter first put forward the premise that the incessant turbulence of an economy in motion, carrying ou...

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...

Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues facing many US cities, leading to the creation and adoption of a variety of approaches to control gr...

Illustrated by case studies from Europe, North America and the Middle East, this book examines how non-market values can be identified, measured an...

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...

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The...

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformati...

Historical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spains democracy. ...

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer. In describing the life and times of ...

First published in 1984, Hugh Clouts work contributes to one of the most debated and important topics of the time, the European Economic Community....

APA's popular primer for citizens is all new! For decades, planning officials and engaged citizens have relied on this book for a better understand...

This title was first published in 2002: This work is about the socio-economic and spatial impacts of planning policy aimed at improving the living ...

A popular and practical guide on how to be an effective planning commissioner. Filled with checklists and outlines, it's both a good introduction a...

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The con...

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive ...

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in todays world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consi...

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designer...

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this ...