Regional and area planning

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality.

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality.

Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies.

Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies.

Drawing on a range of case studies from across Latin America, this book highlights the ways that urbanization shapes the food systems that feed this region's cities, approaching the problem of food in cities as a particularly urban problem.

Second homes (variously summer houses, shacks, baches, cottages, dacha) are a popular cultural phenomenon in many countries and an emerging trend in others.

Second homes (variously summer houses, shacks, baches, cottages, dacha) are a popular cultural phenomenon in many countries and an emerging trend in others.

Few architectural styles evoke so strong a sense of place as Pueblo architecture.

Few architectural styles evoke so strong a sense of place as Pueblo architecture.

Recent history has seen Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) cities undergoing several transitions.

Recent history has seen Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) cities undergoing several transitions.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

This new edition of bestselling textbook Introducing Property Valuation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of valuing real estate, helping them to progress successfully from basic principles to a more sophisticated understanding.

This new edition of bestselling textbook Introducing Property Valuation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and methods of valuing real estate, helping them to progress successfully from basic principles to a more sophisticated understanding.

All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems.

All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems.

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts.

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts.

Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective.

Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective.

Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities.

Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery-providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives-generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies.

Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery-providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives-generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies.

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

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

This book brings together the latest thinking in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and considers the key question of whether the processes are having a positive impact on strategic decision making, both in Europe and worldwide.

This book brings together the latest thinking in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and considers the key question of whether the processes are having a positive impact on strategic decision making, both in Europe and worldwide.

Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth.

Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth.

Developing an up-to-date critical framework for analysing urban retrofit, this is the first book to examine urban re-engineering for sustainability in a socio-technical context.

Developing an up-to-date critical framework for analysing urban retrofit, this is the first book to examine urban re-engineering for sustainability in a socio-technical context.

As with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product.

As with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product.

The so-called 'creative industries' are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development.

The so-called 'creative industries' are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development.

This book discusses various transport sustainability issues from the perspective of developing countries, exploring key issues, problems and potential solutions for improving transport sustainability in China.

This book discusses various transport sustainability issues from the perspective of developing countries, exploring key issues, problems and potential solutions for improving transport sustainability in China.

Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place.

Architecture and Agriculture: A Rural Design Guide presents architectural guidelines for buildings designed and constructed in rural landscapes by emphasizing their connections with function, culture, climate, and place.

Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human-plant relations.

Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human-plant relations.

Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed.

Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed.

Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph's Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design.

Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph's Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design.

In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the best, most sustainable, locations.

In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the best, most sustainable, locations.

The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures.

The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures.

Public Transport provides an accessible introductory text to the field of public transport systems, covering bus, coach, rail, metro, domestic air and taxi modes.