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.
The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation: Planning Systems, Policies and Instruments
1st Edition
Edited
By Maciej J Nowak
March 11, 2025
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, ...
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 ...
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...