Regional and area planning

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century.

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences.

City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.

Presents a distinctly local idea of citizenship that, with the advance of globalization, often conflicts with national citizenship.

As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases.

During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes.

In today's world, deep learning source codes and a plethora of open access geospatial images are readily available and easily accessible.

Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges.

This book focuses on the latest cutting-edge research for achieving sustainable development goals during urbanisation in the Belt and Road Initiative Era.

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century.

This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole.

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space?

Originally published between 1961 and 1994, the volumes in this set sit equally comfortably in sociology and geography as well as housing studies.

Few architectural styles evoke so strong a sense of place as Pueblo architecture.

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism.

There is increasing appreciation in the social sciences that context is an important element in understanding social, economic, cultural, political and demographic processes.

'The world has entered the urban millennium.

Although strategies to prevent global warming - such as by conserving energy, relying on solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use - are well-known, societies have proved unable to implement these measures with the necessary speed.

Examining discomfort's physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment.

Microsimulation as a modelling tool in social sciences has increased in importance over the last few decades.

Originally published in 1988.

This book was first published in 1963.

The conceptualization and execution of Repowering Cities are terrific, and provides readers with a deep understanding of why, how, and to what effect cities have mobilized to mitigate the effects of climate change.

Historically, we see the city as the cramped, crumbling core of development and culture, and the suburb as the vast outlying wasteland - convenient, but vacant.

The cohousing "e;bible"e; by the US originators of the concept.

The Anthropocene is the "e;age of human influence"e;, an epoch well known for its urban impact.

Originally published in 1986.

This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

This Fourth Edition of Cartography: Visualization of Geospatial Data serves as an excellent introduction to general cartographic principles.

In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable planning documents.

Making Space studies the built environment by examining the private-sector forces responsible for its development and the urban planning systems put in place to influence, guide and manipulate its outcomes.

This book dives into the achievements, opportunities, risks and dangers of ICT in the rural Global South, and takes a look at the likely future.

This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable human settlements in South Africa.

This thesis provides a novel methodological basis for mechanistically understanding the dynamics of chemicals in products (CiPs) in the anthroposphere and physical environment and establishes a modeling continuum from production of a chemical to its concentrations in various environmental compartments.

In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of information to being directly involved in decision-making procedures.

Originally published in 1980.

Kim details a brief history of urban renewal in central Seoul through articulating urban planning paradigm shifts.

Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children.

How cities are planned and designed has a major impact on individuals' mobility and safety.

New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners' quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century.

This up-to-date and comprehensive reference presents the fundamentals of environmental planning, incorporating theory, practice and case studies.

Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime.

The turn of the 1960s-70s, characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization, prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments.

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning's instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes.

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics.

This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.