Regional & Area Planning

This book is a great opportunity to make the research community discuss the dangerous environmental challenges such as climate change and its huge ...

This open access book is a proceeding of the International Conference on Urban Climate, Sustainability, and Urban Design in Mianyang (MYUCSUD). Thi...

This book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely...

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select proj...

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contempor...

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an enc...

Project Design for Geomatics Engineers and Surveyors, Second Edition, continues to focus on the key components and aspects of project design for ge...

This title was first published in 2000. Linking politics with culture and society, this collection provides an overview of the Scottish Parliament ...

Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden subur...

This title was first published in 2002: Regional planning and government in the UK is undergoing a period of tremendous activity, with a wide range...

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning? and as part of this What are its key features as a st...

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environme...

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts...

Urban and regional planning programs aspire to prepare practitioners to write and implement comprehensive plans. Yet, academic planning programs of...

Recent technological advancements and other related factors and trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and rapidly acce...

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposalfrom burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in s...

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this han...

Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment. In A Planner's Encounter with Complexity we present various understandings of c...

The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook explains the business case for property professionals to pursue solar projects. A projects value is deter...

Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of internatio...

The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoo...

Urban Wildscapes is one of the first edited collections of writings about urban wilderness landscapes. Evolved, rather than designed or planned, th...

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan. It is a collection that narrates, ...

In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of...

Chinas unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a t...

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It...

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent...

Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart ...

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together ac...

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulat...

Regent Park Redux evaluates one of the biggest experiments in public housing redevelopment from the tenant perspective. Built in the 1940s, Toronto...

Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping o...

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces. It provides a ...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

Business retention and expansion (BRE) is regarded as the most practical and accessible method for economic development at the city, town, or neigh...

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact o...

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on arts dialecti...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search ...

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing. However, urban manufacturing is often invisible and poorly ...

Originally published in 1996, Urban Land and Property Markets describes the intricacies of the Italian urban planning system, and the interconnecti...

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of t...

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the im...

In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable p...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

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

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healt...

In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stori...