Regional and area planning

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

Biophilic Connections and Environmental Encounters in the Urban Age takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on the authors' wide range of experience, to provide a greater understanding of the different dimensions of environmental engagement.

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings.

First published in 1979, this book examines key planning policy areas such as land use planning, land values, housing and slum clearance, urban transport, industrial and regional economic location policies, and policies inner city policies to explain why particular policies have been adopted at particular times - assessing the role of political parties, bureaucrats and interests in setting the national policy agenda.

The second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners.

Many urban and transportation problems, such as traffic congestion, traffic accidents, and environmental burdens, result from poor integration of land use and transportation.

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process?

This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental history, capturing how the most ordinary yet enduring natural forces have shaped the form of cities and the thoughts of individuals.

The smart city movement, during the last decade and a half, advocated the built environment and digital technology convergence with the backing of institutional capital and government support.

Regional equity as a field of scholarship, as an arena of policy change, and as a social movement has grown, diversified, and matured in important ways over the past decade.

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

The taxicab makes a significant contribution to the accessibility of a city, and provides a wide range of services across many different social groups and urban environments.

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked.

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city.

What makes a visually appealing landscape?

This book captures ground-breaking attempts to utilise culture in territorial development and regeneration processes in the context of South Africa and our 'new normal' brought by COVID-19, the fourth industrial revolution, and climate change the world over.

This book presents a new way of thinking about, teaching, learning, and practicing real estate development.

How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates.

Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple, accessible guide for considering, creating, and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation.

Equality of opportunity in housing is a key issue in social justice in Britain today.

The days of rationalist scientific management and deference to official data are behind us.

This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development.

Community visioning and strategic planning programs have become increasingly important in recent years as local governments in rural areas have searched for innovative ways to revitalize their local economies or manage population growth.

This book provides designers, planners, educators, and therapists with the practical information required to remove inequity in outdoor spaces, by creating inviting and inclusive solutions so that all children and their families, regardless of situation or circumstance, can experience the joys and benefits of outdoor play without stigma.

One of the most original thinkers of the century, Karl Popper has inspired generations of philosophers, historians, and politicians.

This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions.

This book begins with an introductory outline of the structure of the city politics of the United States.

First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants' groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties, and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London.

This book explores the concept of 'home' in Liverpool over phases of 'regeneration' following the Second World War.

Today, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban planners lie in one of these new crossroad moments.

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

Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding.

Urban Remote Sensing is designed for upper level undergraduates, graduates, researchers and practitioners, and has a clear focus on the development of remote sensing technology for monitoring, synthesis and modeling in the urban environment.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book discusses lessons and challenges of metropolitan circles development and urbanization in Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa.

China's rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable.

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years.

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy.

Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award!

A small river in a big city, the Don River is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto's growth.

A handbook for the practitioners, this book is a complete treatise on the topic of Smart, covering:1.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

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