Regional and area planning

Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice.

The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the New Urban Agenda.

This book presents new research on the capacity of big cities to generate new tourism areas as visitors discover and help create new urban experiences off the beaten track.

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings.

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

Mexico City is the second largest city on the American continent, the most populous Spanish-speaking city in the world and the richest city, in terms of GFP, in Latin America.

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials.

This book is an easy-to-read introduction to the principles and methods of building procurement and is aimed at first year students or non-cognate graduates starting out on a career in construction, property, quantity surveying and construction management.

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural design-from conception to construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers.

As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "e;terrain vague,"e; has become increasingly important.

Introducing a new concept of urban space, Cities and Metaphors encourages a theoretical realignment of how the city is experienced, thought and discussed.

The 21st century has been called the "e;century of the city.

This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental history, capturing how the most ordinary yet enduring natural forces have shaped the form of cities and the thoughts of individuals.

This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on the eastern Iranian shoreline as in Arabic countries on the western side.

Cities are the future.

This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies.

Between the slum clearances of the early twentieth century and debates about the post-Olympic city, the drive to 'regenerate' London has intensified.

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic.

Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play.

Originally published in 1996 Rural Change and Planning describes the turbulent changes that have occurred in rural England and Wales since the outbreak of the First World War.

First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government.

The notion of data is increasingly encountered in spatial, creative and cultural studies.

Race, Faith and Planning in Britain adopts a Critical Race Theory perspective to analyse and discuss challenges of planning in contemporary multi-ethnic Britain.

Urban Freight Analytics examines the key concepts associated with the development and application of decision support tools for evaluating and implementing city logistics solutions.

This title was first published in 2001.

The Shenzhen Phenomenon is a comprehensive and systematic study about how Shenzhen, the world's fastest growing city, has developed into an international metropolis from scratch within 40 years.

Affordable and Social Housing - Policy and Practice is a candid and critical appraisal of current big-ticket issues affecting the planning, development and management of affordable and social housing in the United Kingdom.

Cities are amongst our greatest creations.

This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.

In the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the leaders of the German Democratic Republic planned to construct a city center that was simultaneously modern and historical, consisting of both redesign of old buildings and new architectural developments.

Die bisher erschienenen Österreichischen Wohnhandbücher 1995, 1997, 2004, 2007 und 2010 zeigen deutlich den raschen Wandel der Rahmenbedingungen im österreichischen Wohnbau.

Effective school leadership depends on developing an understanding of people, organisational learning and organisational processes.

This book examines the concept of neighbourhood over space and time and understands how neighbourhoods can impact human health and well-being.

Planning is a highly political activity.

The hawari of Cairo - narrow non-straight alleyways - are the basic urban units that have formed the medieval city since its foundation back in 969 AD.

Describes the changing life of the city and its inhabitants during the final decades of the twentieth century and examines the complex forces at play in the search for modernity.

Originally published in 1979, this study deals on a fully comprehensive level with both passenger and freight travel.

This accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike.

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

Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.

As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions.

Design education in architecture and allied disciplines is the cornerstone of design professions that contribute to shaping the built environment of the future.

While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and "e;green urbanism,"e; both the ecological and equity impacts of these developments are often overlooked.

Britain's maritime tradition is well documented.

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future.

This perceptive study investigates the different ways in which the state deals with various social groups through the mechanisms of space.

Civil Engineering and Urban Planning III addresses civil engineering and urban planning issues associated with transportation and the environment.

Welsh Planning Law and Practice provides a comprehensive guide to the sources and structure of Welsh planning law and a route through its complexity.

Drawing on a range of European cases, this edited volume analyses the offshoring and outsourcing of foreign companies, with a focus on territorial embeddedness.