Regional and area planning

This book brings together key works of the noted architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander (1936-2022), many of which have not been published before.

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.

This book investigates the design, operation and use of contemporary transportable buildings, and explores how functional performance can be assessed in small-scale examples for public use alongside their relationship to other design elements.

This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture and city regeneration, as well as, in general, the future of the city in the new millennium.

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces.

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa.

This collection of case studies, focusing on British scientific culture during the first industrial revolution, explores the social basis of science in the period and asks why such an extraordinarily rich variety of cultural-scientific experience should have flourished at the time.

This book traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process and both are set in their political context.

Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape, architecture and design, this volume provides a rare insight into people's engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets people's needs and desires in the twenty-first century.

This volume examines how cities, migration, and urban governance are intertwined.

This book is concerned with cultural and political discourses that affect the production of architecture.

A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region.

This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment.

A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practicesUrban planners project the future of cities.

Since the 1990s 'beliefs', 'ideas' or 'knowledge' as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have received increasing attention in social science for the understanding of political changes.

In this book, the author outlines a Robust Web Parking, Truck and Transportation Portal (RWPTTP) for integrating parking and transportation services - a revolutionary approach in contrast to incremental change for managing traffic congestion.

First published in 1986.

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.

Much valued by design professionals, controversially discussed in the media, regularly misunderstood by the public and systematically regulated by public procurement; in recent years, architecture competitions have become projection screens for various and often incommensurable desires and hopes.

**This title was originally published in 2001.

This book enhances the reader's understanding of the theoretical foundations, sociotechnical assemblage, and governance mechanisms of sustainable smart city transitions.

For much of the past century, we have viewed the issue of parking from the driver's seat.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda.

In economic development, theory and practice exist as two seemingly separate realities.

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment.

Das Frankfurter Allerheiligenviertel hat eine wechselvolle Vergangenheit hinter sich, nun steht es am Anfang einer neuen Epoche.

Tourism is a central part of regional development strategies in many localities around Europe, not just in traditional coastal or mountain resorts but also in areas without a strong track record with regard to visitor economy.

Transport is responsible for a growing share of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, emerging as an economic sector for which technical solutions have shown limited benefits and a shift to electric mobility is seen as an essential part of tackling both problems.

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter?

Emergency Preparedness: A Safety Guide to Planning for People, Property, and Business Continuity provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters.

The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces.

The Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to successful charrettes -- those extended exercises that help citizens envision new possibilities for their communities.

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence offers a comprehensive view of how cities are evolving as smart ecosystems through the convergence of technologies incorporating machine learning and neural network capabilities, geospatial intelligence, data analytics and visualization, sensors, and smart connected objects.

En regard du phénomène de vieillissement, les auteurs se penchent sur la relation entre les personnes âgées et l’aménagement de l’espace au sein de deux métropoles, Montréal et Québec, en allant du macro (régions métropolitaines) au micro (espaces intérieurs), en passant la ville et les quartiers.

A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and connected.

'Borgata', 'favela', 'periurbain', and 'suburb' are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres.

Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings.

City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived today for its human scale; Green city design, whose history can be traced back thousands of years in Asia, but is becoming increasingly important everywhere as sustainability and the preservation of the planet are recognized as basic issues, and finally Systems city design, which includes infrastructure and development regulation but also includes computer aided techniques which give designers new tools for managing the complexity of cities.

Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.

The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power.

'This is a timely, challenging and fascinating book on a topic of central importance to the success or otherwise of our climate change policies.

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government.

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map.