Regional and area planning

Bogart puts the current policy debate over urban sprawl into a broader analytical context.

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is primarily concerned with the future consequences of plans, proposals and policies on the health of communities.

The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture.

The Environmental Management Revision Guide: For the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management is the perfect revision aid for students preparing to take their NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management.

First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded.

This book delves into the complex history of the gardening movement in schools and examines the question why gardens should be built in schools.

International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be governmental, non-governmental or private sector.

Originally published in 1991.

This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities.

World population growth and economic prosperity have given rise to ever-increasing demands on cities, transportation planning, and goods movement.

Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private ownership; and the appearance of global counter-actors, enabled by the expansion of digital communication and networking technologies and rooted into new participatory cultures, easily growing into mobile cultures of protest.

Housing Policy in Europe provides a comprehensive introduction to the economic, political and social issues of housing across the continent.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive.

The first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates, suitable for students and researchers alike.

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay).

The Earth's temperature has been rising.

Creating metropolitan regions that are more efficient, equitable, and sustainable depends on the willingness of local officials to work together across municipal boundaries to solve large-scale problems.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.

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

First published in 1981, Ethnic Segregation in Cities argues that race and ethnicity are fundamental to writing about the city, and that economic patterns adapt themselves to race and ethnicity rather than vice versa.

The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration.

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures.

How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially has become an increasingly vital profession.

The Global Smart City: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age is a ground-breaking exploration of the transformative impact of smart cities in today's urban landscape.

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research.

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues.

Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border in Dearborn, but also was the first industrialist to make the automobile a mass consumer item.

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities.

The objective of this book is to encourage administrations to formulate a sound housing policy to solve basic health-related housing problems and to meet WHO's objective of healthful housing for all by the year 2000.

By combining focus groups and interviews with innovative research techniques, such as web-based discussions and Q methodology, this book provides insights into the daily experiences of those using the British transport system.

Hall argues that 'London was the chief manufacturing centre of the country in 1861, and without doubt for centuries before that'.

Architecture of Resistance investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and power, and how these factors interplay in light of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

Times of Creative Destruction is about the years that followed the end of WWII, one of the most seminal and dramatic epochs in human history, during which extraordinary star-buildings were born, cities exploded, and an unprecedented world of a 'Third Ecology' emerged.

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning.

Planning evaluation is required to establish the success of planning interventions - both of physical developments and new approaches.

When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N.

This is a key text on the very topical themes of power, defence and space.

This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting public debate that these problems are attracting.

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on such production systems and forces them to find new ways of competition and sustainability.

The book explodes the myths that currently drive society's view of traffic safety and limit progress in reducing death and serious injury.

Spatial Microeconometrics introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and the spatial behavior of economic agents at the microeconomic level.

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture.

In an effort to explain why housing remains among the United States' most enduring social problems, Housing America explores five of the U.

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world.

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

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.