Regional and area planning

One of the biggest challenges for students of housing is understanding the financial principles which underpin the place of housing in the wider economy.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

The Principles of Housing is an engaging and discursive introduction to the key topics within housing studies.

Utopia tends to generate a bad press - regarded as impracticable, perhaps nostalgic, or contradictory when visions of a perfect world cannot accommodate the change that is necessary to a free and self-organizing society.

This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective.

Retailer's buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration.

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects.

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed.

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southeast Asian cities.

Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services addresses concerns from the health and community services sector, including local government, about how to respond to climate change and its impacts on communities.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

This fourth edition of Urban Planning and Real Estate Development guides readers through the procedural and practical aspects of developing land from the point of view of both planner and developer.

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Air Transport and Regional Development Methodologies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment.

Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental psychology, geography, political science, and social work.

The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) is published in eleven official EU languages and so is the most international planning policy document that exists.

More than the Soil focuses on the social, cultural, economic and technological processes that have transformed rural areas of Southeast Asia.

In a world of increasing globalisation, where one high street becomes interchangeable with the next, Identity by Design addresses the idea of place-making and the concept of identity, looking at how these things can be considered as an integral part of the design process.

This ambitious and innovative volume stretches over time and space, over the history of modernity in relation to antiquity, between East and West, to offer insights into what the author terms the 'geographical unconscious.

An entirely new text for students of political geography following in the footsteps of the author's highly successful Modern Political Geography.

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Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability of housing, or the lack thereof, going beyond conventional policy discussions to consider fundamental questions such as: What makes housing affordable and for whom is it affordable?

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

Solving Critical Design Problems demonstrates both how design is increasingly used to solve large, complex, modern-day problems and, as a result, how the role of the designer continues to develop in response.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers' present needs and future aspirations, thereby enabling the development of targeted spatial and programmatic interventions for diverse communities.

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe.

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers' present needs and future aspirations, thereby enabling the development of targeted spatial and programmatic interventions for diverse communities.

The shop/house - the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings - appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world.

The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations.

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.

The second edition of this introductory GIS textbook is thoroughly rewritten and updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with technologies that address relevant issues across several disciplines preparing students for higher-level work in geotechnologies.

Does the 'city region' constitute a new departure in urbanisation?

Drawing together leading urban academics, this book provides the first detailed and cohesive exploration of contemporary urban regeneration in Australian cities.

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Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues.

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces.

This book presents a selection of readings to present varied opinions, approaches and reports from various international professional journals.

Designing the City looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level.

The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades.

Public participation and local community involvement have taken centre stage in heritage practice in recent decades.

Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication.

Rural Development in the Digital Age explores current theoretical and policy developments in EU rural policy during the 4.