Regional and area planning

Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design.

Originally published in 1979.

Originally published in 1966 and written at a time when UK housing policy was undergoing major changes, this volume provides a substantial historical introduction which outlines the development of housing policy in the UK from the mid 19th - mid 20th Centuries.

Planning and Conflict discusses the reasons for conflicts around urban developments and analyzes their shape in contemporary cities.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

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

A collection of essays on architecture of modern China, arranged chronologically covering a period from 1729 to 2008, focusing mainly on the twentieth century.

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future.

The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid- and high-rise modular housing that can be manufactured and distributed on a global scale.

Traditionally, landscape planning has involved the designation and protection of exceptional countryside.

Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.

Energy Storage in Energy Markets reviews the modeling, design, analysis, optimization and impact of energy storage systems in energy markets in a way that is ideal for an audience of researchers and practitioners.

This is the story of what has happened to the ways in which Philadelphians make a living.

At a time when strategic spatial planning is undergoing a renaissance in Europe, The Visual Language of Spatial Planning makes a unique contribution to this rapidly growing area of teaching and research.

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to applied spatial data analysis using R.

Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance.

As we move further into the 21st century, the prominence of regions can no longer be taken for granted.

Online and Hybrid Learning: Design Fundamentalscovers the basic tasks associated with the systematic design of online and hybrid learning environments.

Originally published in 1986, this book compares and evaluates the effects of converting rental housing into owner occupancy in the USA, the UK and Germany.

Focusing on Cardiff, the capital city of Wales in the UK, this book reflects on a contemporary small European city - its development, characteristics, and present struggles.

The Home in the Digital Age is a set of multidisciplinary studies exploring the impact of digital technologies in the home, with a shift of emphasis from technology to the people living and using this in their homes.

Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer.

COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown.

The peri-urban interface in poor countries is frequently an area of great dynamism and a focus of competition for basic resources.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process.

This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ecosystem service mapping is a fundamental part of developing healthier cities and ensuring environmentally-oriented land use.

Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade.

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

This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia.

This new handbook brings together various views and experiences of the impacts of flooding and its management in Africa, Asia and Latin America by drawing from traditional and modern approaches adopted by communities, homeowners, academics, project managers, institutions and policy makers.

This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context.

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together.

Once Upon a China is an unconventional architectural story of great beauty, empathy, honour and sadness.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents.

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life.

Thirsty is an exploration of Los Angeles' storied history in regards to water.

'Essential for any serious technical library' PROFESSOR MARTIN GREEN, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTHWALES, AUSTRALIA 'Valuable, detailed information that helps me plan for the future' DON OSBORN, FORMERLY OF SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT The Advances in Solar Energy series offers state-of-the-art information on all primary renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind and biomass, bringing together invited contributions from the foremost international experts in renewable energy.

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives.

A history of 150 years of social-ecological transformations in the arid savannah landscape of Namibia.

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.

This book presents an in-depth look at US infrastructure and its challenges in the 21st century.

Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring.