Regional and area planning

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland.

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.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly a core objective for policy makers, practitioners and citizens.

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Vietnam.

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis.

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities will drive nearly one million species to extinction in a few decades.

The 1960s and 1970s saw a marked change in the approach to built heritage conservation.

The need for a "e;new"e; book on Greek colonization arose to analyse this phenomenon as a long-term process in a wide geographic area.

The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one.

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.

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour.

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change.

Despite the current recession, the frequency of second home ownership is still surprisingly high throughout the western world.

The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.

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.

In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36.

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

Este libro responde a la necesidad de entender el crecimiento vertical de la ciudad a partir del surgimiento de torres y rascacielos, cuya altura determina exigencias economicas, tecnologicas y funcionales, con grandes efectos tanto en la armadura general, en la que sobresalen grandes brotes de densificacion constructiva, como en la pregnancia y significacion social de este gigantismo en el paisaje.

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots.

Built space supports our daily habits and our membership of communities, organizations, institutions, or social formations.

This book critically examines the interplay between digitalization and sustainability.

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

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

Suburban sprawl has been the prevailing featureand double-edged swordof metropolitan America's growth and development since 1945.

Vehicle, road, sign, and signal lighting are provided to enable drivers to reach their destinations quickly and safely.

This book combines Construction 6.

The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory.

This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries.

Los espacios rurales de América Latina y Europa enfrentan desde hace ya varias décadas grandes problemas y desafíos.

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Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning.

50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization.

This unique volume presents the achievements of the land, sea and air transport industry of Singapore in the last 50 years after Singapore gained its independence in 1965.

Using a selection of archaeological cases studies from the Roman period in the Mediterranean region, Pedro Trapero Fern ndez shows how GIS technologies can be employed in the creation of spatial models to reproduce historical realities.

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

This book gives a broad coverage of modern restoration and the management needed after restoration.

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities.

This important book addresses issues of development and its environmental sustainability for the fastest growing areas in Asia - its cities.

Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values.

This book provides valuable insight and critical appraisal of key areas of intelligent transport systems (ITS) for land transport in Europe.