Regional and area planning

Radical changes in the design of housing in post-war Japan had numerous effects on the Japanese people.

Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social fabric of the city to being a part of more impersonal and fragmented urban environments.

Originally published in 1977.

This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning.

First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations.

Where is planning in twenty-first-century Australia?

With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high.

Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad.

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges.

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood.

This book is an interdisciplinary research work designed to be of interest to a broad range of academics.

This comprehensive volume examines contemporary life and history in Beijing, covering such topics as culture, politics, economics, crime, security, the environment, and more.

This book explores the wide-ranging elements of property PR in the UK, with a strong emphasis on communications theory, strategy and technique.

The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places.

What are the key rationalities that underpin planning policy discourses and how do they 'frame' seemingly irreconcilable conflicts around development and environmental protection?

Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales - ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes.

America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades.

This reference book provides traffic safety researchers and practitioners with an international and multi-disciplinary compendium of theoretical and methodological chapters.

This book provides a cross-urban account on murals, street art, and public art in cities around the globe.

Land Use Law in Florida presents an in-depth analysis of land use law common to many states across the United States, using Florida cases and statutes as examples.

This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns.

This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade.

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored.

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Applied Urban Design combines 'why' we design and 'who' we design for, with 'how' we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.

This volume considers the making of settlement as a process of identity formation.

"e;Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2018"e;The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, led by local agencies and actors.

The practical application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is becoming increasingly common.

As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants.

Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences.

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings.

Globally, environmental impact assessment (EIA) is one of the most enduring and influential environmental management tools.

Bringing together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan, this book offers a state-of-the-art survey of conceptual and methodological research and planning issues relating to landscape, heritage, [and] development.

After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats.

Originally published in 1980, this book was written by consultants in urban development with wide experience in the developing world and is a source book aimed at advisers (often from developed countries) who assist with urban planning matters on behalf of multi-lateral agencies such as the World Bank.

This book provides a fascinating insight into the development of the nineteenth century Atlantic economy and the nature of contemporary migration.

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space.

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale.

Slums and Redevelopment (1992) moves between national policy formation and detailed local studies, particularly of London, studies involving landlords and property, tenants and rehousing, and the implementation of programmes.

The study of urbanization in Southeast Asia has been a growing field of research over the past decades.

This second edition of The Affordable Housing Reader provides context for current discussions surrounding housing policy, emphasizing the values and assumptions underlying debates over strategies for ameliorating housing problems experienced by low-income residents and communities of color.

Dispatches from the Frontlines analyzes some of the world's most contentious hotspots.

This book considers the major forces that have emerged to reshape planning following 2010, including national infrastructure project delivery, the Localism Act (2011) and neighbourhood planning.

Originally published in 1979, these essays provide a guide to the labyrinth of issues which together made up 'housing policy' in the late 20th Century.