Regional & Area Planning

This practical handbook explains eight constitutional principles and applies them to real-world planning situations. These statements of principles...

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This guide explains neighborhood planning for both ci...

The authors classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages. The tie between land use...

In this extraordinarily wide-ranging, insightful, and revelatory book, Tony Hiss is the much-praised author of The Experience of Places delves into...

This title was first published in 2001. The hierarchical approach of regional planning institutions is facing crisis. In an era of globalization, t...

Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality, and watershed and gree...

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct ap...

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

New Regionalism, promoted as a new paradigm of development by the OECD, suggests that globalization is bringing together new technologies, manageme...

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

Transnational learning has become a buzz phrase in European policy-making and in multi-national business. Learning from the experiences of others i...

Life Cycle Approaches to Sustainable Regional Development explains the ways life cycle methodologies and tools can be used to strengthen regional s...

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgeta...

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape archi...

First published in 1985, this book presents seven games for use in the teaching and study of planning, urban studies or land administration. These ...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

This book examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration. It is primarily concerned with the implications of mar...

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the...

Since the 1990s beliefs, ideas or knowledge as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have ...

Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city p...

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries...

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. ...

The Chair Eco-design of buildings and infrastructure, a partnership between three engineering colleges (MINES ParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech ...

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing ...

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

This book provides an updated, concise summary of forecasting air travel demand methodology. It looks at air travel demand forecasting research and...

Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as p...

Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in todays world. Architectural designs and urban policies have to dea...

There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. Howev...

Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments. This book is the first to provide a cohesive an...

Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their...

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrin...

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urb...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...