Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design series provides the reader with the latest scholarship in the field of planning and beyond. The series publishes international research covering spatial planning, regional planning, planning history, planning theory, communities, impact assessment, transport, sustainability and urban design. Building on Routledge’s history of academic rigor and cutting edge research, the series will contribute to the rapidly expanding literature in all areas of planning and urban design.
Mapping: Narratives, Practices and Spatial Inquiry
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
November 28, 2025
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and reconfigure urban space. The essays examine mapping ...
City, Public Space, and Body: The Embodied Experience of Urban Life
1st Edition
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By Mahsa Alami Fariman, Chien Lee, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad, Asma Mehan
November 18, 2025
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together contributions from scholars, artists, and practitioners across diverse geographies, the ...
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana
1st Edition
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By Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, Louis Kusi Frimpong
September 10, 2025
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana’s small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South. The book argues that Ghana’s urban future ...
Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth
1st Edition
By Parisa Ziaesaeidi
September 05, 2025
Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth explores social sustainability in neighbourhood design, with a particular focus on providing practical design recommendations to improve the lives of children and youth. This book provides insights from research, as well as practical,...
Planning Rural Landscapes: Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Nexus
1st Edition
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By Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães
July 31, 2025
Appealing to a broad audience, this book bridges different issues, from landscape to ecosystems, planning to implementation, and policies to local community willingness. This book outlines a methodology for defining green infrastructure (GI) in rural landscapes, showing how it underpins ecosystem ...
Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities and Public Works, c. 1935–46
1st Edition
By Ian Morley
July 31, 2025
Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities and Public Works, c. 1935–46 illuminates the implications of the USA’s final phase of colonial rule in the Philippine Islands. It explores the Filipino side of decolonisation and the management of the built...
Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change: Recent Japanese and International Experiences
1st Edition
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By Raffaele Pernice, Tetsuya Yaguchi
July 29, 2025
The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal cities and the often-neglected urban waterfronts,...
Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation
1st Edition
By Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka, Radosław Wolniak
June 30, 2025
Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation focuses on how higher education institutions are adapting to the challenges of the digital age in a world increasingly influenced by technology and sustainability. Universities are becoming an indispensable ...
Contracting with Citizens: How Morals, Politics, and Laws Shape Cities
1st Edition
By E.W. (Michiel) Stapper
June 17, 2025
This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics. In participatory processes, residents negotiate with policymakers about the future of their neighborhood. In the last few decades, this happened ...
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles: Artists and Communities Working Together
1st Edition
By Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne Bray
May 27, 2025
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners’ equitable placekeeping efforts. A new concept, equitable placekeeping describes the inclination of historically marginalized community members to steward their neighborhood’...
Displaced Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
May 27, 2025
This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide. It addresses the intricate realities of displacement and its impact on the built environment. Through a series of ...
Resilient Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
May 09, 2025
As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities. Resilient Urbanism critically examines how cities, towns, and informal settlements adapt to these multifaceted challenges, exploring urban resilience in the 21st...