Regional and area planning

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet.

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

Feeding an expanding population in light of environmental preservation and keeping production lean is a considerable challenge.

Developing Property Sustainably introduces readers to the key issues surrounding sustainable property development in the global marketplace.

Developing Property Sustainably introduces readers to the key issues surrounding sustainable property development in the global marketplace.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature.

Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid - albeit geographically uneven - local and regional economic growth during the past few decades.

Fast urbanizing countries like China have experienced rapid - albeit geographically uneven - local and regional economic growth during the past few decades.

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as 'an urgent agenda' (World Bank 2010).

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as 'an urgent agenda' (World Bank 2010).

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States.

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

This book adopts a cultivation technique using yellow sand substrate in the desert, making agricultural production possible.

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design?

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design?

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes.

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

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

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

Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change.

Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 - an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard's original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003.

Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 - an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard's original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States.

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States.

This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm.

This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm.

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities.