Regional and area planning

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

This book examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration.

As urbanization of the world's population grows at an ever-increasing pace, the need to understand the effects of globalization on cities is at the forefront of urban studies.

Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts is the most comprehensive resource available on the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it relates to smart city planning and urban design.

Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs.

What do cities tell us about power?

The temporal and spatial intersection of information and telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies, and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial configurations and public policies.

Transport Justice develops a new paradigm for transportation planning based on principles of justice.

The most effective way to participate in land stewardship and environmental management is to get involved in the review of proposed developments.

Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems covers the basic theoretical principles of community planning and how planning has evolved in the United States.

Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate.

Social cohesion is often perceived as being under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences in contemporary cities and the increasing intensity of urban life.

Making Places for People explores 12 social questions crucial to environmental design.

Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities.

This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities.

The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades.

Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society.

Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs.

Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating policy initiatives and progress in market towns.

Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

Drawing upon historical, cultural, economic and socio-demographic perspectives, this book examines the role of a sporting mega-event in promoting urban regeneration and social renewal.

The book aims to provide city administrators and planners with a tool to accompany them in experimenting with the regeneration of no longer used parts of the built heritage, called leftovers, by adopting an innovative approach.

Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong's country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas.

Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE.

The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years.

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization.

A History of Architecture and Trade draws together essays from an international roster of distinguished and emerging scholars to critically examine the important role architecture and urbanism played in the past five hundred years of global trading, moving away from a conventional Western narrative.

In a groundbreaking longitudinal study, researches studied seven similar social housing neighbourhoods in Ireland to determine what factors affected their liveability.

Travel, Space, Architecture defines a new theoretical territory in architectural and urban scholarship that frames the processes of spatial production through the notion of travel.

This design primer examines the forces at work in the built environment and their impact on the form of buildings and their environments.

Originally published in 1994, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom, adopts a perspective that encompasses the distinctive nature of the legal framework, land law, property market and procedures of Scotland, England and Wales.

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis.

Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities.

In Griechenland erinnert man sich bis heute an die deutsche Besatzung der Jahre 1941–1944, im deutschen Gedächtnis hingegen ist dieses Kriegsgeschehen vergessen oder wird beschwiegen.

This collection illustrates the evolving role of housing as a symbol of modernity, a tool for economic recovery and a response to societal transitions.

Throughout the world, the number of festivals has grown exponentially in the last two decades, as people celebrate local and regional cultures, but perhaps more importantly as local councils and other groups seek to use festivals both to promote tourism and to stimulate rural development.

Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide.

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

This book goes beyond current ways that the impact of climate change upon the city are understood.

Smart cities rely on information and communication technologies to enhance the quality of life of their citizens.

First published in 1971, The Economics of the Distributive Trades is a comprehensive analysis of all sectors of the British retailing sector, written by the then-head of the Research Department of the John Lewis Partnership.

This groundbreaking new volume on social sustainability offers both critique and creative solutions.

This book responds to the need to rehabilitate the holistic urban environment by introducing planning approaches which focus on the Japanese idea of "e;Satoyama.

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies.

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.

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles.

A provocative look at our nation's dependency on the automobile and how its potential impact on urban design will either make or break our health, economy, and quality of life.