Regional and area planning

This collection interrogates relationships between court architecture and social justice, from consultation and design to the impact of material (and immaterial) forms on court users, through the lenses of architecture, law, socio-legal studies, criminology, anthropology, and a former senior federal judge.

This book makes a significant contribution to advancing post-geographic understandings of physical and virtual boundaries.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations.

Illustrated by case studies from both smaller nations - such as Carriacou, Barbados and St Lucia - and larger countries - including Cuba, Mexico and Jamaica - this volume brings together leading writers on environmental planning in the Caribbean to provide an interdisciplinary contemporary critical overview.

Originally published in 1977.

The UN's urban sustainability goal (#11) is fundamental to the global sustainable development agenda.

European Union policies are intertwined with all sectors of public administration and governance in the member states, including spatial, urban and regional planning.

Following on from the critically acclaimed The Landscape Lighting Book, this is the lighting design companion every professional and student in landscape architecture needs.

This book introduces the interlocking disciplines of property and planning to economic theory and practice.

Power and Party in an English City provides an account of how decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality.

While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form.

Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century.

Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities.

In less than a generation, the dominant image of American cities has transformed from one of crisis to revitalization.

This book addresses the emergence of biophilic design, a form of design that looks at people's intrinsic connection with nature.

Processes of Creating Space is a workbook for beginning designers that shows how to generate space with user experiences in mind.

Previously perceived as a local, technical issue for governments, waste management is now also a global, socio-political process involving complex patterns of multi-level governance.

Resources and Planning focuses on the trends, approaches, techniques, and emergence of new concepts in geography, as well as the use of models in planning endeavors.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

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.

This book was first published in 1978.

Addresses the Challenges Facing Public Transport Policy Makers and OperatorsPublic Transit Planning and Operation: Modeling, Practice and Behavior, Second Edition offers new solutions for delivering both better services and greater efficiency, solutions which have been developed and tested by the author in over thirty years of research work with mass transit policy makers and operators all over the world.

This series of essays outlines a number of case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia and provides first hand accounts of the experiences that planners, architects and politicians have had in reshaping cities.

Smart Cities and Digital Transformation offers a three-tiered approach to tomorrow's cities in terms of limitless innovation, sustainable development and empowering communities.

Architects habitually disregard disciplinary boundaries of their profession in search for synergies and inspiration.

This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context.

Experimental Visualization in Architectural Design Media: How It Actually Works is a theoretical, practical, and interdisciplinary account of the tools used by architects and designers.

This handbook focuses on the practices, initiatives, and innovations of urban planning in response to the rapid urbanisation in Indonesian cities.

Ethical dilemmas and value conflicts affect cities globally, but urban leaders and citizens often avoid confronting them directly and instead view the governance of cities as primarily an administrative task or, even worse, a merely political one.

Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres.

Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world.

In an era of rapid change, uncertainty, and hyperpartisanship, when wicked problems abound, tools for solving public problems are more essential than ever.

For architecture and urban space to have relevance in the 21st Century, we cannot merely reignite the approaches of thought and design that were operative in the last century.

Framing Places is an account of the nexus between place and power, investigating how the built forms of architecture and urban design act as mediators of social practices of power.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments, originating from the development of urban planning as a profession and the proliferation of the garden suburb.

The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual water and water governance.

Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world.

What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls?

Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs.

In the decades before the U.

Considering sustainability in its economic, environmental and social contexts, the contributors take stock of previous research on large technical systems and discuss their sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, and rules and institutions.

Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan.

The rich field of urban law has thus far lacked a holistic and concerted scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives.

Written to complement civil engineers' technical knowledge, this book explains the sociocultural contextual knowledge that civil engineers need if they are to be effective in their professions.