Regional and area planning

The expansion of the European Union in 2004 has had significant consequences for both existing and new members of the Union.

This book dives into the achievements, opportunities, risks and dangers of ICT in the rural Global South, and takes a look at the likely future.

Health and happiness are fundamental to human quality of life.

The world's deserts are sufficiently large that, in theory, covering a fraction of their landmass with PV systems could generate many times the current primary global energy supply.

This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences.

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging.

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities.

I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history.

This is the first book to fully present, analyse and interpret the Dubai real estate market.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a fast-growing field of land-use planning affecting many disciplines.

Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy.

Several events in the past few years have dramatically shown how the interests of European citizens are directly affected by the stability, security and prosperity of their neighbouring regions.

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

Travel is an essential part of everyday life and today most journeys are multimodal.

The 'Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution that aims to challenge the auto-normative paradigm by reversing the broader effects of an urban form shaped by the logic of keeping automobiles moving.

Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effective planning of transport and land use.

Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the landscape itself.

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.

How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.

What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean?

From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others landed in The Ward in the centre of downtown.

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape.

How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.

Tan Yigitcanlar offers a comprehensive exploration of artificial intelligence's (AI) role in shaping modern cities.

This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups.

An insight into the booming industry of insect leisure and tourism, using case studies and examples from around the world.

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly influences how architecture is represented, imagined and produced.

Housing Policy in Europe provides a comprehensive introduction to the economic, political and social issues of housing across the continent.

This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole.

Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access to knowledge and experience unavailable to historians of earlier periods.

Published in 1999, this book discusses the role that marginality has had in the past, has today and will have in the future.

The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

Increasing pressure on global reserves of petroleum at a time of growing demand for personal transport in developing countries, together with concerns over atmospheric pollution and carbon dioxide emissions, are leading to a requirement for more sustainable forms of road transport.

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice.

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map.

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon.

The power of local currencies Communities everywhere are challenged by issues such as health, elder and child care, housing, education, food security and the environment.

Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating.

This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position.

In one of the first books to treat retailing as a subject of serious analysis, Retailing and the Public examines the state of one of the most important industries in the country.

The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today.

There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces.

The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways.

The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines.

Why do authorities in post-colonial African states continue to employ European or Western planning models?

A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world.