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.
Infrastructure and Planning in Central and Eastern Europe: Tackling the Challenges of Major Road Investments
1st Edition
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By Tomasz Komornicki, Maciej J Nowak
October 09, 2026
The book will compare and contrast the key problems associated with the planning and implementation of major road investments in selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. The CEE countries serve as an excellent research...
Transitory Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
October 02, 2026
Transitory Urbanism explores how cities are continuously formed and reformed through movement, negotiation, and uncertainty. Rather than viewing transience as an anomaly, it positions instability, mobility, and variation as fundamental to urban life, forces that actively shape cities rather than ...
Film and Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
September 25, 2026
Film and Urbanism contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship by investigating the complex and multidimensional relationship between the city and film as a practice. Moving beyond the idea of a recording and representation method alone, film is approached here as a critical spatial practice that ...
Branded Heritage and Real Estate: The Making of Urban Value
1st Edition
By Michela Pace
September 03, 2026
Branded Heritage and Real Estate presents a bold and timely investigation into the intersection of two powerful forces reshaping our cities today: the financialisation of space and the strategic use of heritage as a vehicle for profit. Heritage can certainly be consumed, but it can be endlessly ...
Planning Digital Cities: Transforming Public Spaces in the Age of Technology
1st Edition
By Fatemeh Elnaz Badel
August 06, 2026
This book explores how digital technologies are reshaping urban public spaces, transforming social interactions, civic engagement, and cultural experiences in cities globally. Through detailed case studies from Singapore, Barcelona, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Istanbul, New York City, Boston, Seattle, ...
De-Siloing Urban Planning
1st Edition
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By Mennatullah Hendawy
August 03, 2026
This book examines why urban planning continues to fall short of its aspirations for equity, sustainability, and resilience. It argues that contemporary challenges cannot be met without fundamentally reconfiguring how knowledge, power, and action are organized. The book present de-siloing as the ...
The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation: Planning Systems, Policies and Instruments
1st Edition
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By Maciej J Nowak
June 22, 2026
The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia. This book identifies how, in each case, ...
Urban Regeneration After Catastrophe: 7 Turning Points in the History of City Planning
1st Edition
By Mary Ganis
June 01, 2026
This book examines how catastrophes—natural, technological, ideological, biological and socioeconomic—transform urban design and planning, potentially creating "turning points" in a city's development trajectory. Through historical case studies, the book traces urban responses to catastrophe: the ...
The Politics of Road Expansion: Debunking Misled Economic Growth Narratives
1st Edition
By Babar M. Chohan
May 29, 2026
This book investigates how arguments for economic growth are perceived and advanced to promote road investment across the world. In the literature, the relationship between building roads and achieving economic growth is heavily reliant on quantitative tools while ignoring the contextual details of...
Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa
1st Edition
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By Irit Ittner, Sneha Sharma, Isaac Khambule, Hanna Geschewski
May 21, 2026
Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South. Empirical studies provide nuanced analysis of socioeconomic, administrative, and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as the project area of greenfield development, the ...
Chinese Collaborative Planning in the Digital Era: Institutions, Power Relations, and Public Spheres
1st Edition
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By Yanliu Lin, Hongmei Lu
May 04, 2026
Chinese Collaborative Planning in the Digital Era: Institutions, Power Relations, and Public Spheres is the first accessible text on theoretical underpinnings and extensive case material on China’s collaborative planning. It questions the validity of agonistic and communicative approaches and lays ...
Mapping: Narratives, Practices and Spatial Inquiry
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
December 29, 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 chapters examine ...