Urban and municipal planning and policy

This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography.

Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.

Built environment students are not always familiar with the range of different research approaches they could be using for their projects.

To plan successfully and manage the increased uncertainties posed by likely future climate change, knowledge needs to advance much more for the water profession beyond what it is now available.

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space.

This successful title, previously known as 'Building the 21st Century Home' and now in its second edition, explores and explains the trends and issues that underlie the renaissance of UK towns and cities and describes the sustainable urban neighbourhood as a model for rebuilding urban areas.

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue.

The Designing Environments book series addresses questions regarding necessary environmental transformation in the context of the fast-unfolding environmental crisis.

Is it truly the "e;end"e; of public space?

Design has been employed as an agent of social and political change, and a catalyst for spatial and urban transformations in cities across the world.

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "e;resilience reset"e;, a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, particularly in cities of the Global South.

America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centers is worsening.

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life.

Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation.

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas.

This book questions the current definition of what makes a product sustainable and argues that a holistic approach to sustainable product design is required, one that considers all aspects of a product's life cycle from design to production, to use and then final disposal.

Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development.

An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.

This book provides insight into the instances in which wildlife species can create problems.

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts.

Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in Berlin in July 2000.

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged.

This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia.

How do we include and represent all people in cities?

This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.

Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.

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

Despite recent estimates that there are currently 10 million people in the UK suffering from phobias, there is a substantial and conspicuous gap in existing academic literature and research on this topic.

The need to respond to the rapidly changing city climate is particularly urgent in the tropics where the urban transition is currently at its peak.

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition.

Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing.

The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design explores the multifaceted nature of infrastructure through the global lens of architectural history.

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant implications for educational policy and practices.

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China-projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025.

The Political Culture of Planning is written for two quite distinct readerships.

After the ceasefire, a group of architects and planners from the American University of Beirut formed the Reconstruction Unit to help in the recovery process and in rebuilding the lives of those affected by the 2006 war in Lebanon .

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

This book tackles the challenging issues raised by the growth of large megacities from diverse perspectives and approaches.

Renewed theoretical frameworks for planning, permanent monitoring and quantitative indicators based on official statistics, geographic information systems and remote sensing allow an inclusive and holistic representation of socioeconomic systems worldwide.

Originally published in 1974 this book examines the problems confronting the London public transport system in the 1970s.

Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.

This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play?

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition.

The 'Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution that aims to challenge the auto-normative paradigm by reversing the broader effects of an urban form shaped by the logic of keeping automobiles moving.

This book addresses the influences of planning cultures and histories on the temporal evolution of planning systems and spatial development.