Regional and area planning

In 1945 the Labour Government set out to enable everyone to have a decent home, where people from all walks of life could live together.

The first edition was extremely well received, providing an introduction and insight to this important topic in a comprehensive yet easy to read form.

Design Against Crime will aid the design profession to meet the challenges presented by the competing needs and complex systems around crime and security.

Originally published in 1990, The Isolated City State asks the questions, why have the world's major cities experienced explosive growth?

This book is designed to be of interest to many different audiences due to its cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary content.

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles.

Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate.

Collecting fares through "e;smart cards"e; is becoming standard in most advanced public transport networks of major cities around the world.

Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc.

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.

England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims.

This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems.

Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design.

In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson's extensive research into the development of Texas's oldest city.

Worldwide, more and more people are living in cities, with suburbs conceived as appendages to the city, rather than being part of the city system, which is densely populated and offers a full range of services.

Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners.

In Freedomland, Annemarie H.

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas.

Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma explores how the phenomenon of ethnic violence can be understood as a form of security dilemma by shifting the focus of the concept away from its traditional concern with state sovereignty to that of identity instead.

Behind India's high recent growth rates lies a story of societal conflict that is scarcely talked about.

Bringing together authors from academia and practice, this book examines spatial planning at different places throughout the British Isles.

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment.

Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other.

This wide-ranging exploration of the key contemporary relationships between social change and housing is both policy-oriented and theoretical, drawing on a group of internationally-respected academics.

Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly.

Finding specific advice on inclusive processes for engaging a community in a planning or design process can be a daunting undertaking.

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality.

The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one.

This edited collection provides an invaluable resource of seventeen chapters from a wide range of academic disciplines.

Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia.

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.

Slums and Redevelopment (1992) moves between national policy formation and detailed local studies, particularly of London, studies involving landlords and property, tenants and rehousing, and the implementation of programmes.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age.

In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the 'loss of publicness' of contemporary urban public places.

Addresses a variety of challenges and solutions within the transportation security sphere in order to protect our transportation systems Provides innovative solutions to improved communication and creating joint operations centers to manage response to threats Details technological measures to protect our transportation infrastructure, and explains their feasibility and economic costs Discusses changes in travel behavior as a response to terrorism and natural disaster Explains the role of transportation systems in supporting response operations in large disasters Written with a worldwide scope

Visual pollution is an emerging, multi-dimensional, subjective, and under studied area of manmade environments that has recently received researchers' focus.

Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries.

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

As the first inclusive study of how women have shaped the modern Indian built environment from the independence struggle until today, this book reveals a history that is largely unknown, not only in the West, but also in India.

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters.

Originally published in 1995.

The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy.

Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion.

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain.

Urban design is a process of establishing a structural order within human settlements; responding to dynamic emergent meanings and functions in a constant state of flux.

Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably.