Regional and area planning

Rome: A New Planning Strategy looks at the problems of a city over the last century and suggests a totally new planning strategy.

Place branding as a field of research is still in a state of infancy.

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces.

"e;[The authors] argue that with more integration and cooperation between businesses, governments and communities, a more sustainable economy is possible.

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.

Smart Cities: Blockchain-Based Systems, Networks, and Data examines the various components that make up a smart city.

Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe.

Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space investigates how strategies of warfare occupy and alter built and other landscapes.

The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies.

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality, more sustainable design in accessible, jargon-free language.

Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK.

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an integrated and comprehensive approach to ocean governance and is used to establish a rational use of marine space and reconcile conflicting interests of its users.

Charting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in this area for practitioners and policy makers.

The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making according to some widespread practices in academic and professional circles.

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress.

This book offers an introduction to public administration by a veteran practitioner, written for planners, as well as students seeking a public administration career and individuals simply wanting to learn more about responsible government.

'A must-read for practitioners, teachers and others interested in or working with energy use in the built environment, including a delightful set of examples' Ann Grete Hestnes, former President of the International Solar Energy Society Solar Architecture in Cool Climates is an invaluable primer on low energy building design, combining accessible information with convincing arguments enabling new techniques to be implemented in daily practice.

How Architects Write shows you the interdependence of writing and design in both student and professional examples.

This book includes twelve newly commissioned and carefully curated chapters each of which presents an alternative planning history and theory written from the perspective of groups that have been historically marginalized or neglected.

The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is the first comprehensive handbook with a unique focus on planning education.

During the last decade, developments in smart cars, mobile devices, internet of things and vehicular communications are revolutionizing the future of smart cities.

Architectural discourse and practice are dominated by a false dichotomy between design and chance, and governed by the belief that the architect's role is to defend against the indeterminate.

This edited collection, first published in 1981, presents a discussion of the urban problems faced in the developed world, and addresses the plans and policies devised by governments to solve them.

This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional.

First published in 1990.

Despite all the talk of sustainability, there has not been enough action to halt or reverse the impacts of climate change.

Housing bubbles burst, creating economic misery for millions.

As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government.

Who decides which stories about a city are remembered?

This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radical and experimental cultural politics generated by the city's counterculture.

Dilemmas of Sustainable Urban Development offers valuable insights into a difficult line of work whose practice inevitably requires a confrontation with fundamental conflicts between divergent goals, and therefore also demands difficult choices and compromises.

Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain.

This book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration.

The health of our planet and ourselves depends on how we plan, design, and construct the world between our buildings.

This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control).

New urban forms characterizing contemporary metropolises reflect a certain continuity with the patterns of the past.

More than half of the world's population now live in urban areas, and cities provide the setting for contemporary challenges such as population growth, mass tourism and unequal access to socio-economic opportunities.

The planning of urban and rural areas requires thinking about where people will live, work, play, study, shop and how they will get about the place, and to devise strategies for long time periods.

This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability.

'Glorious' Guardian'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATORIn his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors.

Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City's nationally acclaimed landmarks law.

This Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside in Southeast Asia''s has been transformed over the past half century.

Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?

Walking is an essentially human activity.

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations.

Jason Wood is Director of Heritage Consultancy Services, Lancaster, UK, and former Professor of Cultural Heritage at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian onlineFaced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden suburbs that already exist?

Our global reliance on private automobiles as the primary means for transporting individuals is likely to become of increasing political importance over the next ten to twenty years.

The scale, complexity and pace of urban change in the recent past has been disorienting.