Regional and area planning

This text is aimed at the basic local government management course (upper division or graduate) that addresses the structural, political and management issues associated with regional and metropolitan government.

This monograph presents a novel typology of relational and territorial perspectives on legitimacy and identity.

The 2018 edition analyses tourism performance and policy trends across 49 OECD countries and partner economies.

The changing nature and significance of housing provision within welfare states is considered in this timely book.

The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don't act as if we had more than one planet Earth.

2020 was a year unlike any other in U.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Housing: Design, Research and Education, demonstrated some of the diversity and richness of the research being undertaken in housing at time, which took as its starting point peoples' notion of home and the way in which a sense of home is captured distilled and expressed through various facets of design, and conversely the urgent need for architects and planners to take seriously the everyday scale and scope of peoples' home experience.

Many cities with a population of 150,000 or less struggle to compete with their larger neighbors and often have trouble attracting residents and new businesses.

Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline.

This book studies the increasing use of data analytics and technology in urban planning and development in developing nations.

Much city marketing and branding activity is future-oriented; aimed at achieving a forward-looking vision for places.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia's premier tourism destinations, a modern city cut out of coastal vegetation, including paperbark swamps, mangroves and rainforests of both Indigenous and worldwide significance.

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

This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity.

Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues facing many US cities, leading to the creation and adoption of a variety of approaches to control growth.

Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda.

Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population.

Global concerns and local problems are increasing not only in urban areas but also in regions where the human impact is minimal.

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology.

Transport InfrastructureAsset management in transport infrastructure, financial viability of transport engineering projects/ Life cycle Cost Analysis, Life-Cycle Assessment and Sustainability Assessment of transport infrastructure/ Infrastructures financing and pricing with equity appraisal, operation optimization and energy management/ Low-Volume roads: planning, maintenance, operations, environmental and social issues/ Public-Private Partnership (PPP) experience in transport infrastructure in different countries and economic conditions/ Airport Pavement Management Systems, runway design and maintenance/ Port maintenance and development issues, technology relating to cargo handling, landside access, cruise operations/ Infrastructure Building Information Modelling (I-BIM) / Pavement design and innovative bituminous materials/ Recycling and re-use in road pavements, environmentally sustainable technologies/ Stone pavements, ancient roads and historic railways/ Cementitious stabilization of materials used in the rehabilitation of transportation infrastructure.

This seminal edited collection examines the impact of austerity and economic crisis on European cities.

Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began.

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention.

This book looks at how the physical environment of work shapes organizational behaviour, demonstrating that our physical surroundings at work can have a big influence on employee productivity, performance and wellbeing.

This is the true story about how Washington, D.

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

This foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the United States during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Only a Few Blocks to Cuba, Mauricio Castro shows how the U.

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Over the last decade, Spain has become an emblem of the contradictory relationship between capitalism and housing.

Geographies of Transport and Mobility aims to provide a comprehensive and evidenced account of the intellectual and pragmatic challenges for personal mobility in the twenty-first century.

Much of modernist architecture was inspired by the emergence of internationalism: the ethics and politics of world peace, justice and unity through global collaboration.

Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process.

Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda.

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions.

The most comprehensive treatment of key elements of original surveys, and the research required to find them, which is an important issue in retracement surveys that has never been fully explored.

Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban sprawl, spatial segregation, gentrification, education, housing affordability, regional equity, and more.

Global trends such as climate change, digitalisation, enhanced concepts of democracy and the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis are changing the playing field of cities across the world.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data.

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion.

How Drawings Work cheekily explains that what architects make is information that enables other people to make buildings.

1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement.

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

Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations.

Contemporary art, entertainment, and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.