Regional and area planning

Urbanization is one of the most powerful forces influencing global sustainability.

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current issues affecting the countryside.

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

In 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City.

Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater.

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us.

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In recent years, there has been a growing debate on the various ways that architecture and urbanism have served the triad of colonialism, nationalism and modernity.

Policies forged by all levels of government affect the lives of urban residents.

Ports in Proximity provides an overview of key contemporary research in the field through a broad range of international case studies.

Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability.

Access to quality services and community infrastructure are vital parts of supporting sustainable and resilient rural and small town places.

Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities.

Bordered Cities and Divided Societies is a provocative, moving, and poetic encounter with the hearts and minds of individuals living in nine cities of conflict, violence, and healing-Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Beirut.

Charting the development of the travel plan as a concept, this book draws on a range of research-based contributions to determine the state-of-the-art and to explore a series of future scenarios in this area for practitioners and policy makers.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

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A taboo-shattering book, How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies sets out how visionary national and local leaders can transform unsustainable societies as they attempt to recover from an age of austerity.

Across European cities the use of urban space is controversial and subject to diverging interests.

Esta obra es un homenaje al centenario de fundación de la Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transporte Aéreo (SCADTA), que tuvo una gran incidencia en el desarrollo del país durante la primera mitad del siglo XX.

An innovative look at design solutions for building lifelong neighborhoods Livable Communities for Aging Populations provides architects and designers with critical guidance on urban planning and building design that allows people to age in their own homes and communities.

The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries across the world.

The second edition of Regional Economics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of regional economics.

This Handbook simultaneously provides a single text that narrates the Cairo of yesterday and of today, and gives the reader a major reference to the best of Cairo scholarship.

Offering the overlooked but essential viewpoint of young people from low-income communities of color and their public schools, Planning Cities With Young People and Schools offers an urgently needed set of best-practice recommendations for urban planners to change the status quo and reimagine the future of our cities for and with young people.

Researchers have responded to urban sprawl, congestion, and pollution by assessing alternatives such as smart growth, new urbanism, and transit-oriented development.

Virtual Aesthetics in Architecture: Designing in Mixed Realities presents a curated selection of projects and texts contributed by leading international architects and designers who are using virtual reality technologies in their design process.

This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies.

Mixed use development is about retaining or creating a mix of different uses in cities or neighbourhoods.

With radical and innovative design solutions, everyone could be living in buildings and settlements that are more like gardens than cargo containers, and that purify air and water, generate energy, treat sewage and produce food - at lower cost.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

Originally published in 1970, EDRA 1 is a record of the conference proceedings of the 1st annual Environmental Design Research Association conference.

This book provides insights into commercial and residential real estate markets in one of the world's fastest growing regions: South Asia.

Cities for the New Millennium is the outcome of a joint conference held in Salford in July 2000 by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the University of Cambridge's Department of Architecture.

Traffic and Pavement Engineering presents the latest engineering concepts, techniques, practices, principles, standard procedures, and models that are applied and used to design and evaluate traffic systems, road pavement structures, and alternative transportation systems to ultimately achieve greater safety, sustainability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.

Recent state-led urbanization initiatives in China have drastically transformed Chinese rural society - closing the urban-rural divide as well as redistributing wealth and altering the flows of social mobility.

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

With its celebrated World Heritage List, UNESCO steers the global heritage agenda through the definition and redefinition of what constitutes heritage and by offering the highest-level forum for heritage professionalism.

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South.

This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth.

Evaluation is a critical stage in urban and regional planning and development, with the consideration of alternative proposals essential for informed debate and decision.

This book provides a compelling and insightful portrait of ten female architects, artists, and designers who explored unique approaches to teaching, practice, and research in the postindustrial city of Detroit.

It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces where people live, work, and form communities.

This set of three volumes is not just a compilation of essays in Honour of Professor Ashok Kumar Dutt, it personifies his life as a person and a professional.

Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines that are involved in the conception and implementation of TOD to provide a comprehensive overview of the realization of this concept in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe.