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.
Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Raffaele Pernice, Bing Chen
April 30, 2024
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 ...
Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Addaney, Patrick Cobbinah
September 25, 2023
Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban ...
Victorian Cemeteries and the Suburbs of London: Spatial Consequences to the Reordering of London’s Burials in the Early 19th Century
1st Edition
By Gian Luca Amadei
September 25, 2023
This book explores how Victorian cemeteries were the direct result of the socio-cultural, economic and political context of the city, and were part of a unique transformation process that emerged in London at the time. The book shows how the re-ordering of the city’s burial spaces, along with the ...
Waterfront Design in Small Mediterranean Port Towns
1st Edition
By Giovanna Piga
September 25, 2023
This book addresses issues that waterfronts face in small Mediterranean port towns due to increases in the tourism industry. Integrating theory and pragmatic approaches, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns proposes a design matrix which can go on to be implemented in waterfronts globally. The ...
Identity in Post-Socialist Public Space: Urban Architecture in Kiev, Moscow, Berlin, and Warsaw
1st Edition
By Bohdan Cherkes, Józef Hernik
May 31, 2023
This book is a comparative analysis of the architecture of central public spaces of capital cities in Central and Eastern Europe during the period of their authoritarian and post-authoritarian development. It demonstrates that national identity transformations cause structural changes in urban ...
Smart Design: Disruption, Crisis, and the Reshaping of Urban Spaces
1st Edition
By Richard Hu
May 31, 2023
This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It unravels several urban transformations in dualities: economic relationality and centrality, technological flattening and polarisation, and spatial division and fusion. These...
Economic Incentives in Sub-Saharan African Urban Planning: A Ghanaian Case Study
1st Edition
By Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah
January 09, 2023
This book explores incentives capable of enhancing the effectiveness of urban planning systems in Sub-Saharan Africa using economic theory as a framework. It argues that urban planning is fundamental to the achievement of sustainable and resilient cities, but against the backdrop of rising levels ...
Street-Naming Cultures in Africa and Israel: Power Strategies and Place-Making Practices
1st Edition
By Liora Bigon, Michel Ben Arrous
January 09, 2023
This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban Africa and Israel. Its chapters expand on prominent issues, such as the importance of extra-formal processes, naming reception and ...
The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning: Plotting the Helsinki Waterfront
1st Edition
By Lieven Ameel
January 09, 2023
Narratives, in the context of urban planning, matter profoundly. Planning theory and practice have taken an increasing interest in the role and power of narrative, and yet there is no comprehensive study of how narrative, and concepts from narrative and literary theory more broadly, can enrich ...
China’s Railway Transformation: History, Culture Changes and Urban Development
1st Edition
By Junjie Xi, Paco Mejias Villatoro
December 30, 2022
This book investigates China’s railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development. The book begins by looking at the background of China and the history and growth of railway development in China through five key phases, followed by assessing the cultural ...
New York in Cinematic Imagination: The Agitated City
1st Edition
By Vojislava Filipcevic Cordes
December 19, 2022
New York in Cinematic Imagination is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the American metropolis in the twentieth century. It contextualizes spatial transformations and discourse about New York during the Great Depression and the Second World War, examining ...
The City Makers of Nairobi: An African Urban History
1st Edition
By Anders Ese, Kristin Ese
December 19, 2022
The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period. Although Nairobi was a colonial construct with lasting negative repercussions, the African population’s impact on its history and development is often overlooked. This book shows how ...