Regional and area planning

This book proposes operational approaches to public sector support to community-led development of urban low-income group social housing in the prevailing and medium-term.

To best serve current and future generations, infrastructure needs to be resilient to the changing world while using limited resources in a sustainable manner.

Public participation in the housing permitting process empowers unrepresentative and privileged groups who participate in local politics to restrict the supply of housing.

Focusing on democratization, flexibilization, ethnic diversity and restructuring of transitional and emerging states, this volume analyzes the changes and challenges for administrative structures at the beginning of the 21st century, from a geographical perspective.

How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigms-like fair, right, good-convey different meanings?

In Transforming the Urban University, Richard M.

Global trends in policy and technology related fields are rapidly reshaping the port industry worldwide.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

Written by an established scholar in the field, this text examines the nature of emergency powers and their use in the Russian constitution.

This book offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development.

Human activities are significantly modifying the natural global carbon (C) cycles, and concomitantly influence climate, ecosystems, and state and function of the Earth system.

Public art is produced and 'lived' within multiple, interlaced and contested political, economic, social and cultural-symbolic spheres.

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world.

City of Well-being provides a radical and holistic introduction to the science and art of town planning.

This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents.

Although globalization has led to increased cross-border traffic, there has been little examination of how crossing political boundaries affects tourism and vice versa.

First Published in 2006.

Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man-Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design discusses the man-environment interaction in urban setting.

New twenty-first century economic, social and environmental changes have challenged and reshaped rural Australia.

Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 - an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard's original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003.

Digital Participatory Planning outlines developments in the field of digital planning and designs and trials a range of technologies, from the use of apps and digital gaming through to social media, to examine how accessible and effective these new methods are.

Heritage Sites in Contemporary China: Cultural Policies and Management Practices focuses on cultural heritage policies in China emerging in the period of the 11th and 12th Five Year Plans.

Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design.

A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom.

How will climate change affect our lives?

Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the third in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

Environmental quality is one of the most important issues faced by contemporary urban and regional policy.

First published in 1999, this volume is unique in that it gives a valuable comparison between the current state of land reform and sustainable development across greater Europe.

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health.

This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects.

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

Originally published in 1984.

This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of 'adequate housing'.

Originally published in 1980.

First published in 1984, this book addresses key questions about the pattern of urban development in Southern Europe and the mechanisms employed to control and regulate this development in individual countries.

This book discusses the role of digital technologies in the growth and development of cultural organizations and the creative sector.

Using mixed and augmented reality in communities is an emerging media practice that is reshaping how we interact with our cities and neighbors.

The book delves into the affective, embodied, and sensory dimensions of traffic and urban mobility.

This book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contributed to this phenomenon and exploring its many consequences.

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "e;resilience reset"e;, a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, particularly in cities of the Global South.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition.

Queer Sites in Global Contexts showcases a variety of cross-cultural perspectives that foreground the physical and online experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the Caribbean, South and North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.

Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses.

The author's classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages.

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions.