Regional and area planning

This set of three volumes is not just a compilation of essays in Honour of Professor Ashok Kumar Dutt, it personifies his life as a person and a professional.

This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl redevelopment in Mumbai, India.

This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Civilizations fail when they become trapped in a way of looking at the world that no longer works.

If you own a car, use public transportation, go to work or school, use health care, shop or dine out, or are part of a metropolitan community, parking affects you, probably in more ways than you've thought about.

How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism?

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined.

Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis.

The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged.

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention.

Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking.

Set within an insightful analysis, this book describes the genesis, ideas and ideologies which influenced La Construction des Villes by Le Corbusier.

Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent.

When designing, planning and building urban spaces, many contradictory and conflicting actors, practices and agendas coexist.

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges.

Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody.

Local Tax Policy: A Primer provides the definitive discussion of how local governments raise revenue.

Both the number and percentage of people living in urban areas is growing rapidly.

This clear and concise guide is the ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for students and professionals of architecture, urban design and planning.

Despite population trends toward urbanization, the forest continues to have a strong appeal to the human imagination, and the human preference for forest over many other types of terrain is well documented.

This book examines urban planning and infrastructure development in Japanese cities after the second world war as a way to mitigate the risks of disasters while pursuing sustainable development.

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support.

The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably.

This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.

'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.

At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or social crises - the raison d'A tre of spatial planning faces significant conceptual and empirical challenges.

This title was first published in 2001.

The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways.

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city.

Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers explains methods in evidence-based design, also called practice-based research, to show you the value of research to your designs.

The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments.

'This book re-addresses the concepts of neighbourhood and community in a refreshing and challenging way.

The Companion to Public Space draws together an outstanding multidisciplinary collection of specially commissioned chapters that offer the state of the art in the intellectual discourse, scholarship, research, and principles of understanding in the construction of public space.

After decades "e;in the shadows"e;, urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate.

Forschungen zur Geschichte der Gartenkultur, zu moderner Landschaftsarchitektur und zu Gärten und Landschaften in der Literatur sind einer der Forschungsschwerpunkte des Zentrums für Gartenkunst und Landschaftsarchitektur (CGL) der Leibniz Universität Hannover.

This title was first published in 2003.

This title was first published in 2001.

Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design and Co-Director of the Research Institute of Urbanisation at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, People's Republic of China.

This book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility.

This fully revised second edition reflects the great expansion in urban ecology research, action, and teaching since 2015.

This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance.

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