Regional and area planning

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders-and depends on-multiple urban temporalities.

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change.

Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries.

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development.

From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.

The promotion of night-time economies in town centres across Britain has sparked new fears about disorder, violence and binge-drinking.

Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage.

This volume presents the discipline's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Whether a world fair, an art gallery, a museum or trade show, all exhibitions deal with the same basic commodities, objects and informative space.

Mobilität ist Freiheit; Mobilität ist Grundbedingung für den Wohlstand; Mobilität nimmt permanent zu; Mobilität verursacht einen Viertel des globalen CO2-Ausstosses – kurz: die Bewältigung künftiger Mobilitätsströme ist eine der grössten Herausforderungen unserer Zeit.

This volume thoroughly explores the perceptions and ethical considerations surrounding urban artificial intelligence (AI).

Essentials of Urban Design explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and tools needed to achieve better design outcomes.

"e;A thorough education in how to move from simply maximizing the economic output of cities to improving the well-being of all urban residents.

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an encounter that determines the entire course of the design process.

While federal action on immigration faces an uncertain future, states, cities and suburban municipalities craft their own responses to immigration.

Modern Architecture: The Basics examines technological, stylistic, socio-political, and cultural changes that have transformed the history of architecture since the late 18th century.

Originally published in 1995, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments, written by by leading theorists and empirical researchers offers an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural spectrum of viewpoints on the study of the home concept.

Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development.

Social Provision in Rural Wiltshire was first published in 1952.

In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities of women.

Originally published in 2019, this book provides a comprehensive account of a formative historical period, uniquely describing Renaissance architecture as the physical manifestation of political and economic change.

Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate work forces and foreigners arriving from various places.

Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) is an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices-spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences--to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement.

Rural America is progressing through a dramatic and sustained post-industrial economic transition.

Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve.

While the Chinese planning system is vitally important to the rapid development which has been taking place over the past three decades, this is the first text to provide a comprehensive examination and critical evaluation of this system.

This book was first published in 1980.

Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs refer to the UN stipulated road-map for development in 17 defined areas, by 2030.

Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life.

Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape.

This examination of a phenomenon of 19th century planning traces the origins, implementation, international transference and adoption of the Garden City idea.

The embedding of energy efficiency in the management of individual housing organisations is crucial for the realization of current ambitious energy efficiency policies.

Sherry Arnstein, writing in 1969 about citizen involvement in planning processes in the United States, described a "e;ladder of citizen participation"e; that showed participation ranging from low to high.

Urbanization is one of the most important phenomena in economic development.

New York became the world's first megacity in the 1930s.

The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures.

This textbook integrates GIS, spatial analysis, and computational methods for solving real-world problems in various policy-relevant social science applications.

Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West.

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities.

A series of rich case studies examine a range of topics, including neighbourhood gentrification, subway busking, yard sales, electronic waste, and language, refining the touchstone principle of circulation for the study of urban culture, both materially and theoretically.

Delve into the fascinating world of soil science with "e;The Urban Soil Guide,"e; a comprehensive manual designed for everyone from science beginners to seasoned horticulturists.

The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts.