Regional and area planning

With the exponential rise in leisure mobility, tourism has increasingly become of great economic significance.

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations.

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context.

This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control).

Managing the urban water cycle needs to be underpinned by key sustainability principles of water consumption, water recycling, waste minimisation and environmental protection.

How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.

This book has been developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe.

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain''s transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

This book addresses issues that waterfronts face in small Mediterranean port towns due to increases in the tourism industry.

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available.

The editor and his contributors take an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links.

Pointing the way to the future of research and development in relation to cycling as a mode of transport, this book investigates some of the significant recent developments in the technology, provision for, and take up of cycling in various parts of the world.

This Element proposes a conceptual-methodological vantage point that examines urban development to address power inequalities.

By 2050, an additional 2.

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.

Ensuring optimum ventilation performance is a vital part of building design.

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport.

As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases.

The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattles architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the regions built environment.

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environments in Baguio City, designed by American architect and planner Daniel Burnham in the early twentieth century, and established by the American imperial government as a place for healing and well-being.

How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world?

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities.

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers.

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians' safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place.

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010.

Despite developments in urban design during the last few decades, architects, urban planners and designers often continue to produce areas of bland, commercially led urban fabric that deliver the basic functional requirements of shelter, work and leisure but are socially unsustainable and likely generators of future problems.

Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the changes in China's planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and informative details in language that is accessible enough for the undergraduate but thoroughly grounded in a wealth of research and academic experience to support academics.

High Speed Rail's (HSR) main objective is to attract air passengers between big metropolitan areas however the main territorial implications in many cases occur not in these metropolitan areas but in the intermediate cities.

Real Estate and Urban Development in South America uncovers how investors are navigating South American real estate markets in commercial, residential and infrastructure development.

Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together.

Winner of the Planning Institute of Australia's 2015 Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award!

This book critically explores the relationship between mobility patterns, transport provision and urban development in East African cities.

Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impact has become pivotal to urban planning.

The GIS Guide for Elected Officials is a valuable resource for government officials who want to better understand how to use geographic information systems (GIS) to answer location-based questions such as the following: -Can work crews respond more efficiently to service calls?

Three decades ago, the hypermobility of tourists from the days before the global pandemic was truly unthinkable in Eastern Europe.

This book explores the attributes of an integrated model for infrastructure delivery as a means to achieve high impact investing, sustainable growth and development in a developing economy.

Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph's Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design.

This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial - and urban - reality.

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.

Humanitarian intervention is rising ever higher in international relations discourse, with many publications exploring the nature, legality and success of these interventions.

Britain's high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years.

Innovation, Networks and Learning Regions?

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) Space is experienced not only visually, but with all the senses.

Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their product.

Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities.