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.
Resilient Urbanism
1st Edition
Edited
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...
The Green Belt, Housing Crises and Planning Systems
1st Edition
By Charles Edward Goode
March 31, 2025
This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England. It is one of the most well-known strategies internationally, with similar growth restraint policies having been adopted in a diverse range of cities around the world, such as Portland, Medellin and Bangkok. Despite ...
Exclusion in Smart Cities: Assessment and Strategy for Strengthening Resilience
1st Edition
By Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radosław Wolniak
March 18, 2025
Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles for assessing the inclusiveness of Smart Cities and outline strategies for ...
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka: Power, Politics, and Planning
1st Edition
By Rasheda Khan
March 13, 2025
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion. The book considers how the people of poor neighborhoods encounter the exclusionary behavior of city development, and how ...
Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism: Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices
1st Edition
By Markus Holdo
March 13, 2025
Can people use new participatory spaces to reclaim their rights as citizens and challenge structures of political power? This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism. To understand what is at stake in the politics of participation, we ...
Rebuilding Urban Complexity: A Configurational Approach to Postindustrial Cities
1st Edition
By Francesca Froy
December 19, 2024
This is a book about urban complexity – how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different “parts” (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving “whole”. The book explores the evolution and ...
City-making, Space and Spirituality: A Community-Based Urban Praxis with Reflections from South Africa
1st Edition
By Stéphan de Beer
December 18, 2024
This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africa’s post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it recognizes that urban space is never neutral and shaped ...
Smart Cities in Poland: Towards sustainability and a better quality of life?
1st Edition
By Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radosław Wolniak
December 18, 2024
This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities. The Smart City concept has been gaining popularity in recent years, with supporters considering it to be an effective tool...
Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities
1st Edition
Edited
By Sacha Kagan
May 27, 2024
This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban ...
Lost Informal Housing in Istanbul: Globalization at the Expense of Urban Culture
1st Edition
By F. Yurdanur Dulgeroglu-Yuksel
May 27, 2024
The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies. This unique book provides a worldview of multi-stakeholders in the urban housing market. With a longitudinal research approach, it paves ...
Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany
1st Edition
By Agim Kërçuku
May 27, 2024
The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s. The book is a sequence of...
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 ...