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.
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 literature, the relationship between building roads and achieving economic growth is heavily reliant on quantitative tools while ignoring the contextual details of ...
Chinese Collaborative Planning in the Digital Era: Institutions, Power Relations, and Public Spheres
1st Edition
Edited
By Yanliu Lin, Hongmei Lu
April 29, 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
Edited
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 ...
Gentrification in Helsinki: Urban Planning at the Edge of the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Kevin Drain
December 26, 2025
This book unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki, Finland. Here, housing and welfare policies work well under certain conditions to prevent the worst outcomes of residential gentrification. Yet other forms of gentrification have proliferated in recent years, and local urban planning has...
City, Public Space, and Body: The Embodied Experience of Urban Life
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Raffaele Pernice, Bing Chen
September 29, 2025
This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture ...
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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
Edited
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,...