Regional and area planning

Calibrating Coastal Resilience presents a conceptual reimagining of place in the era of climate change.

Das vorliegende Buch untersucht mit der oberösterreichischen Mittelstadt Wels eine Stadt "off the map", die nicht im Zentrum der gesellschaftlichen und auch wissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit steht.

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner.

Water is becoming one of the world's most crucial concerns.

The Netherlands is one of the most prominent and innovative countries in the field of environmental planning.

A comprehensive update, the fourth edition of this leading text features numerous chapters by new authors addressing the latest trends and topics in the field.

The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century.

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change.

First published in 1974, The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning discusses the processes of spatial planning and the range of subject knowledge which is required to contribute to it.

Originally published in 1981, Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, is a comprehensive collection of papers addressing urban crises.

Photovoltaics is already an economic and practical option for providing electricity in many situations such as remote housing, in hybrid systems and for some service applications.

This important book is a must for everyone concerned with the heritage and future of Canada's parks.

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades.

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire.

Point clouds from LiDAR and photogrammetry are vital and vast sources of geospatial information besides remote sensing imagery.

This book explores Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, providing insights into viable pathways and policy designs for a transition towards sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities.

The text offers a critical perspective on complex and consequential aspects of growth and change in London, viewed through the lens of multiscalar space and brought to life through exemplary case studies.

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood.

This book analyses the planning and policy world of major infrastructure as it is moving now in Europe and the UK.

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure.

This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM).

Writing is never easy, but this book can make it easier.

Housing, Care and Inheritance draws on the author's long-standing research into housing issues surrounding the ageing society, a phenomenon which is now a concern in many mature economies.

As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration.

Seoul, as one of Asia's rising global cities, has been a place where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have taken place over the last five decades.

Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906-1973).

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support.

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.

Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.

With rapid urbanization in developing countries and the emergence of smart systems and integrated intelligent devices, the new generation of infrastructure will be smarter and more efficient.

Internet and World Wide Web platforms, big data analytics, software, social media and civic technologies allow for the creation of smart ecosystems in which connected intelligence emerges and disruptive social and eco-innovation flourishes.

End-users provide the most valuable perspective and insights into how public social space should function.

Creating peace for a city's intimate enemies is harder than making war.

Viable, value-creating solutions for securing global transportation networks Securing Global Transportation Networks demonstrates how improved security processes can create value across all the business functions throughout an entire value chain.

A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.

How can we learn from a multicultural society if we don't know how to recognise it?

Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse.

Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years.

Metropolitan growth and development results from a complex mix of factors.

Case Study Strategies for Architects and Designers explains methods in evidence-based design, also called practice-based research, to show you the value of research to your designs.

The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book.

A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years.

The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown.