Regional and area planning

Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the link in moving from knowledge to action.

Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA.

While the rate of urbanisation in the developing world has increased dramatically over the past 20 years, governments' capacity to support urban growth has, in many cases, failed to keep up with this trend.

This book provides a political history of urban traffic congestion in the twentieth century, and explores how and why experts from a range of professional disciplines have attempted to solve what they have called 'the traffic problem'.

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats.

Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America.

With the expansion of the European Union, the countries of Southeast Europe have finally been brought together within one socio-political entity.

First published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on 'Future Visions of Urban Public Housing' held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

New and emerging technologies, from electric cars and buses to zero-carbon producing energy sources, as well as policy innovations, are critical for combating climate change, but to be effective, they must ensure that transport strategies benefit everyone, including the poorest, according to this publication, which provides a guide to achieving sustainable transport.

This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study.

Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future.

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.

Planning Regional Futures is an intellectual call to engage planners to critically explore what planning is, and should be, in how cities and regions are planned.

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital?

Since the nineteenth century various housing solutions have evolved, such as sprawling Australian home ownership and compact Dutch social rental housing.

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland.

Teaching Landscape: The Studio Experience gathers a range of expert contributions from across the world to collect best-practice examples of teaching landscape architecture studios.

Railways are frequently promoted as one of the most sustainable modes of transport.

Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges.

Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts.

This title was first published in 2001.

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The language of the Bible can be beautiful but profoundly elusive, possessing a strangeness that only deepens the committed reader's sense of its impenetrability.

Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for universities to contribute to the economic, social and environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated, and for closer links between the university and the region.

This book focuses on recent and emerging techniques for the enhancement of smart healthcare, smart communication, and smart transportation systems.

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.

In this book, the first on the planning history of Jarkarta, able expert Christopher Silver describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia, and in particular how its largest city, Jakarta, Indonesia, was transformed from a colonial capital of approximately 150,000 in 1900 to a megacity of 12-13 million inhabitants in 2000.

This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management.

A popular and practical guide on how to be an effective planning commissioner.

An introduction to the problems and practices of planning in London.

How children experience, negotiate and connect with or resist their surroundings impacts on their health and wellbeing.

Originally published in 1986, this book focusses on life within global cities in the developing world, analysing on a city-level the circulation and consumption of goods and services within them.

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development.

A substantial proportion of the world's population now live in towns and cities, so it is not surprising that urban geography has emerged as a major focus for research.

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

Building Cities to LAST presents the myriad issues of sustainable urbanism in a clear and concise system, and supports holistic thinking about sustainable development in urban environments by providing four broad measures of urban sustainability that differ radically from other, less long-lived patterns: these are Lifecycle, Aesthetics, Scale, and Technology (LAST).

**Selected in the top eight short-list for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**Le Corbusier is well-known for his architectural accomplishments, which have been extensively discussed in literature.

Understanding Cities is richly textured, complex and challenging.

This book fills a gap in the available literature on energy policy by dealing with the relationship between energy and land-use planning.

Diasporic Agencies addresses the neglected subject of how architecture and urban design can respond to the consequences of increasing migration.

The national recession forced many communities to examine new and innovative ways to promote local economic development, resulting in long-term community changes.

Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur.

In the decades before the U.

This title was first published in 2003.