Regional and area planning

Highway Planning, Survey, and Design presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate alternatives of transportation systems and roadway horizontal and vertical alignments and to forecast travel demand using variety of trip forecasting models to ultimately achieve greater safety, sustainability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people's political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways.

Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities.

This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics.

While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development.

Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies.

This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.

Town and Country Planning in the UK provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions, legislation, policies, processes and practices.

Explores best practices in the governance of data and technology in a variety of cities and public spaces.

First published in 1973, this two-volume set summarises and structures the contributions by researchers at the Fourth International EDRA Conference, held in April 1973.

Architectural programming - the analysis of any given environment to satisfy users' needs - has become a given prerequisite to the design process.

Originally published in 1995, this monograph examines a developmental approach to urban transport planning, with reference to Indonesia.

Covid-19 was a canary in a mine.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 37,133 people lost their lives in accidents on U.

Housing is something that is deeply personal to us.

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.

Instigated by technological and political change, Europe's rural areas have undergone profound and all-pervasive restructuring processes.

The high street is in crisis.

Interaction for Designers shows you how to connect a product with its users, whether it's a simple toaster, a complex ecosystem of intelligent devices, or a single app on your smartphone.

Regions and cities are where the effects of policies to promote economic growth and social inclusion are felt in day-to-day life.

Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally, economically, and socially sustain the earth.

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization.

This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies.

This book examines two civic initiatives in Europe and analyses their evolution through the institutionalisation of their practices, local public effects, and established models for action at broader scales.

Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in Berlin in July 2000.

This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places.

Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century examines a number of related themes including: the traditional approach of local and regional planning initiatives developed within the context of national goals; the current decline of bi-polar political and ideological blocs; political decentralization and concurrent economic centralization including the growth of multi-national corporations; devolution of centralized planning powers to regions and localities, and the rise and acceptance of sustainable development concepts.

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning.

Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice.

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

This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures.

Drawing on first-hand accounts of action research in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, The Heart of Community Engagement illustrates the transformative learning journeys of exemplary catalysts for community-based change.

**This title was originally published in 2001.

Advances in Building Energy Research (ABER) offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking new technologies and methodologies with the latest research on systems, simulations and standards.

This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning.

There is currently considerable concern with limiting the growth of transport demand, the use of resources and related pollution.

Regional Planning provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK.

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.

This book explores how emerging mobility practices have transformed spaces in order to fit the needs of highly mobile people, as well as the changing relationship between people and territory.

This book places Australian conditions and urban planning centrally within comparative analysis of planning systems and cultures around the world to address issues including urban governance, climate change, transportation planning, regional development and migration planning.

Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities.

While contemporary human geography has widely acknowledged that knowledge has both contingent and contextual character, international literature has tended to blot out differences and reproduce hegemonic Anglo-Saxon discourses.

This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains.

Explore the Art and Science of Geometric DesignThe Geometric Design of Roads Handbook covers the design of the visible elements of the road-its horizontal and vertical alignments, the cross-section, intersections, and interchanges.

This book provides local governments and interested stakeholders with insights into the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing climate change.

Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities.

Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential impacts of welfare restructuring in rural places and the difficulties faced by disadvantaged groups with limited provision of welfare services in many rural areas.