Regional and area planning

The urban condition is today being radically transformed.

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment.

This book presents the current thinking from leading authorities worldwide on transport and the environment and focuses on the link between transport supply and use and environmental degradation.

Effective school leadership depends on developing an understanding of people, organisational learning and organisational processes.

Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself.

This book investigates China's railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development.

Covid-19 was a canary in a mine.

Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world.

House prices and mortgage debt have moved to centre stage in the management of national economies, regional development and neighbourhood change.

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Housing: Design, Research and Education, demonstrated some of the diversity and richness of the research being undertaken in housing at time, which took as its starting point peoples' notion of home and the way in which a sense of home is captured distilled and expressed through various facets of design, and conversely the urgent need for architects and planners to take seriously the everyday scale and scope of peoples' home experience.

This text shows why we need to develop an integrated approach to health and environmental impact assessment of development projects, and how this might be achieved.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

Urban Systems Design: Creating Sustainable Smart Cities in the Internet of Things Era shows how to design, model and monitor smart communities using a distinctive IoT-based urban systems approach.

Michel Foucault's work is rich with implications and insights concerning spatiality, and has inspired many geographers and social scientists to develop these ideas in their own research.

Housing stocks provide much more than just shelter.

The "e;livable city,"e; the "e;creative city,"e; and more recently the "e;pop-up city"e; have become pervasive monikers that identify a new type of urbanism that has sprung up globally, produced and managed by the business improvement district and known colloquially by its acronym, BID.

John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four.

As the world becomes more urbanised, solutions are required to solve current challenges for three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, environmental sustainability and urban economic sustainability.

Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

Participatory Rural Planning presents the argument that citizen participation in planning affairs transcends a rights-based legitimacy and an all too frequent perception of being mere consultation.

The future is urban.

This book shows how and why strategic planning is working in cities around the country.

During the past two decades, cities have become nerve centers for the production of value.

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world.

Without the effective participation of developing Asia, a climate crisis is certain.

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan.

The development of leadership capacities addresses a vital and continuing need in communities and organizations as they attempt to adapt to a wide range of social, economic, environmental, and political changes.

Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies.

From the growth of a multi-billion-dollar high-technology corridor in Malaysia to conflict over housing development in Chicago, the practice of regional and local economic development around the world is both dynamic and diverse.

This book offers an overview of India's emerging digital economy and the resulting challenges and opportunities for urban workplaces.

This Companion provides an authoritative source for scholars and students of the nascent field of media geography.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably.

First Published in 2004.

A major concern of all decision makers has been to ensure that there are clear benefits from transport investment proposals.

Towns have undergone dramatic and rapid change over the last century.

How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes?

Every three years, researchers with interest and expertise in transport survey methods meet to improve and influence the conduct of surveys that support transportation planning, policy making, modelling, and monitoring related issues for urban, regional, intercity, and international person, vehicle, and commodity movements.

The era of post-colonialism and globalisation has brought new intensities of debate concerning the existence of diversity and plurality, and the need to work in partnerships to resolve major problems of injustice and marginalisation now facing local and global communities.

Post-Rational Planning confronts today's threats to truth, particularly after recent news events that present alternative facts and media smear campaigns, often described as post-truth politics.

This title was first published in 2000: Providing a review and assessment of a number of the major features evident in regional planning and development in Europe, this volume contains a series of regional case studies, drawn from current research in various European countries.

The role and agency of the public is often a minor consideration for researchers, authorities, and other experts evaluating policy goals, strategies, and instruments within the transport sector.

The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional levelFully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, and most importantly, the how of creating resilient, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places.

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities.

This edited collection investigates gender-sensitive spaces, design practices, and provocations that challenge the complex social and material structures that shape inequities of access and inclusion in the urban environment.

In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies.