Regional and area planning

This book addresses 'the economics of social innovation', a widely neglected topic in regional development.

Following China's successful decollectivization, diverse new organizational forms arose in response to different local situations.

In Food City, a companion piece to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, innovative architect and urban designer CJ Lim explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been and can again become a construct for the practice of everyday life.

In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities.

Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality and globality.

Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities.

City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport.

It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'.

Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States.

Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime.

First published in 1988.

In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods.

Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism.

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism.

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting.

Constructing the Persuasive Portfolio helps you learn the art of designing a compelling and effective architectural portfolio.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of autonomous urban mobility, examining its transformative potential and the principles guiding its innovation.

Urban Transformations through Exceptional Architecture focusses on the nexus between architecturally exceptional projects and the city.

The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image.

This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication toward the establishment of meaningful architecture.

Originally published in 1984.

This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohemian suburb or the "e;boburb.

How should the metropolis be governed?

We hear the term "e;sustainability"e; everywhere today.

Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance.

In our increasingly global and commercial world, where once sport would only have been seen by a few thousand on the terraces it is now watched by many millions via satellite.

This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims to provide ways to improve the resilience of cities using a global perspective, especially in a post-pandemic era.

Licensing law is a wide ranging , detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

An exploration of Johannesburg's post-apartheid's city administration's governance of conflict from 1996 to the current day, in the case of service delivery protests and shifts in city policy.

Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have significantly transformed the city's built environment.

Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the subsequent reconstruction of cities, especially as many of the buildings and areas rebuilt after the Second World War are now facing demolition and reconstruction in their turn.

Museums and Design for Creative Lives questions what we sacrifice when we allow economic imperatives to shape public museums, whilst also considering the implications of these new museum realities.

Facility performance evaluations inform the long-term life of a building and do not end with design or construction.

La ville qui paraissait hier séduisante, sophistiquée, lieu de tous les possibles, a cédé la place dans nos imaginaires à la ville tentaculaire, oppressante, polluée, sale, voire dangereuse avec la diffusion des épidémies.

How do we include and represent all people in cities?

Communities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial Take Charge programs of the early 1990s.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary?

The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "e;progress.

Ethical Design Intelligence: The Virtuous Designer explores the deep significance of philosophy and ethics to the practice of design.

Being socially and geographically mobile is generally seen as one of the central aspects of women's wellbeing.

This is a book about sound studios, focusing on their architectural and geographical aspects.

Appeals to the 'common good' or 'public interest' have long been used to justify planning as an activity.

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Diversity and Design explores how design - whether of products, buildings, landscapes, cities, media, or systems - affects diverse members of society.

During the post-war era, the emerging consumer economy radically changed both the discourse and practice of architecture.

Building for Well-Being is the first introduction to health-focused building standards for design and construction professionals.

This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975.