Regional and area planning

The struggle for the right to housing is a battle over property rights and land use.

Everyday Life in Asia offers a range of detailed case studies which present social perspectives on sensory experiences in Asia.

Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape.

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment.

Ideal for city residents, developers, designers, and officials looking for ways to bring urban environments into harmony with the natural world and make cities more sustainable, Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners offers a wealth of information and examples that will answer fundamental scientific questions, guide green initiatives, and inform environmental policies and decision-making processes.

This new edition of "e;the best anthology in planning"e; includes 33 selections by many of the profession's most respected thinkers and eloquent writers.

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

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years' experience living and teaching ecological planning in Turkey.

Big geospatial datasets created by large infrastructure projects require massive computing resources to process.

With an emphasis on the challenges of sustaining the commons across local to global scales, Making Commons Dynamic examines the empirical basis of theorising the concepts of commonisation and decommonisation as a way to understand commons as a process and offers analytical directions for policy and practice that can potentially help maintain commons as commons in the future.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.

Resolving Environmental Disputes presents detailed case studies from the key contemporary themes in resource management and environmental protection, such as: access to the countryside for recreation, sustainable forestry, pollution and risks to health, and coastal zone management.

Originally published in 1978, this book analyses three main approaches to national housing policy in the 20th Century in Sweden, the UK and USA.

Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation.

The primary aim of this edited volume is to document the current theories, best practices, and technological advancements in the move towards a Smart Built Environment (SBE).

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.

This book explores how the concept of 'region' has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice.

Originally published in 1988, reissued now with a new series introduction, New Directions in Environmental Participation was the third in a trilogy of books to open the series Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences.

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.

After decades of evolving practice often tested in court, development impact fees have become institutionalized in the American planning and local government finance systems.

This book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently sustainability is not achievable.

This book provides an urgent framework and collective reflection on understanding ways to reconsider and recast architecture within ideas and politics of the commons and practices of commoning.

This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities.

From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years.

This book was first published in 1979.

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space.

Graffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their ambiguous nature.

Habitus is a concept developed by the late French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, as a 'sense of one's place.

This book conducts research on the evaluation and reduction mechanism of the negative effects of urban Transportation Energy Supply Network (TESN).

Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the cliches, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue.

A major concern of all decision makers has been to ensure that there are clear benefits from transport investment proposals.

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages.

Industrial heritage can be considered a significant asset of modern civilization, predominately epitomizing the living patrimony of industrialization processes.

The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.

Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia.

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabon-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken place over the last five centuries, transforming the site from a small Caribbean enclave to a sprawling modern capital.

A comprehensive core text from the expert in the field introducing students to the main issues of spatial systems modelling and analysis.

The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem.

Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community; however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses.

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation.

Participatory Rural Planning presents the argument that citizen participation in planning affairs transcends a rights-based legitimacy and an all too frequent perception of being mere consultation.

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awaited sequel to "e;Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities"e;.

Ideal for students taking law modules on construction, surveying, real estate, planning and civil engineering courses, Galbraith's Construction and Land Management Law for Students is an excellent overview of the key legal issues in the built environment.

This book explains how to use and adapt these techniques and how to integrate these methods with more traditional qualitative research.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market.

With origins in the late 1960s, a 'quiet revolution' in land use planning and control has taken hold across North America.