Regional and area planning

What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas?

Climate Crisis, Energy Violence: Mapping Fossil Energy's Enduring Grasp on Our Precarious Future communicates the breadth and scope of fossil fuel infrastructure and its global impact.

International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative investigates the most significant global-scale international trade expansion and capital investment programme since the Second World War.

Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field of digital planning and designs and trials a range of technologies, from the use of apps and digital gaming through to social media, to examine how accessible and effective these new methods are.

This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide.

The "e;new community"e; movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing.

Originally published in 1984.

Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning?

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.

Tenant participation has grown substantially over the last decade, following government legislation, advice from professional bodies and development agencies, and promotion by all major political parties.

Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities.

Australia is experiencing a significant demographic shift - the proportion of the population that is aged 65 years and older is increasing substantially and will continue to do so.

This memoir of life as a committed pedestrian in a beautiful Southern city explores the many joys and benefits of walking as a way of life.

San Antonio boasts one of the countrys fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck.

The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed.

This book proposes the idea of interstitial space as a theoretical framework to describe and understand the implications of in-between lands in urban studies and their profound transformative effects in cities and their urban character.

Solving Transport Problems establishes fundamental points and good practice in resolving matters regarding green transportation.

The National Mall in Washington, D.

Unlike regionalism in architecture, which has been widely discussed in recent years, nationalism in architecture has not been so well explored and understood.

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions.

Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR systems have brought about to different station-cities and their regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better future planning and policy of such systems.

Smart Cities and Digital Transformation offers a three-tiered approach to tomorrow's cities in terms of limitless innovation, sustainable development and empowering communities.

The channels and mechanisms of knowledge flows define the links that make up production and innovation systems.

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces.

Recurring and worsening flood incidence around the world has necessitated the understanding and strengthening of community-based flood risk management from an international perspective.

Part of the Complexity as the Experience of Organizing series, this book applies complex responsiveness theory to real-life leadership experiences.

This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination.

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities.

Originally published in 1983, when Europe's economies were facing the worst recession since the 1930s, this book reviews the outcome of a quarter of a century of research and practical experience in the field of regional economic management.

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley.

Different people handle risk in different ways.

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed.

Ideal for students and practitioners working in spatial planning, the Europeanization of planning agendas and regional policy in general Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe develops a systematic methodological framework to analyze changes in planning systems throughout Europe.

This book assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.

The provision of infrastructure for urban developments is increasingly becoming a highly contentious and important issue in planning negotiations.

First Published in 1995.

'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities.

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England.

Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift.

Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration presents a comprehensive account of UK policies, processes and practices in brownfield regeneration and takes an integrated and theoretically-grounded approach to highlight best practice.

This book explores the transformative power of swarm intelligence and digital innovations in shaping the cities of the future.

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an integrated and comprehensive approach to ocean governance and is used to establish a rational use of marine space and reconcile conflicting interests of its users.

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism.

Originally published in 1970 Social Planning Techniques for Town Planners introduces social research methods for town planners.

Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.