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.
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 ...
The City in Transgression: Human Mobility and Resistance in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Benedict Anderson
December 19, 2022
The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged. The book draws on urban and spatial theory, ...
Planning within Complex Urban Systems
1st Edition
By Shih-Kung Lai
June 30, 2022
Imagine living in a city where people could move freely and buildings could be replaced at minimal cost. Reality cannot be further from such. Despite this imperfect world in which we live, urban planning has become integral and critical especially in the face of rapid urbanization in many ...
Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore: Rethinking the 21st Century Public School
1st Edition
By Erkin Özay
May 30, 2022
Urban Renewal and School Reform in Baltimore examines the role of the contemporary public school as an instrument of urban design. The central case study in this book, Henderson-Hopkins, is a PK-8 campus serving as the civic centerpiece of the East Baltimore Development Initiative. This study ...
Race, Faith and Planning in Britain
1st Edition
By Richard Gale, Huw Thomas
September 22, 2020
Race, Faith and Planning in Britain adopts a Critical Race Theory perspective to analyse and discuss challenges of planning in contemporary multi-ethnic Britain. Exploring how planning is affected by and affects the racialisation of social relations, this book charts the history of the UK planning ...
Re-interpreting the Relationship Between Water and Urban Planning: The Case of Dar es Salaam
1st Edition
By Maria Chiara Pastore
March 23, 2020
Africa is one of the most dynamic continents. It will play a key role in the coming decades in relation to the growth of cities, and environmental conditions will be of primary importance. The structural lack of water and sanitation infrastructure affects the development of Africa's growing urban ...
The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Yamu, Alenka Poplin, Oswald Devisch, Gert De Roo
February 04, 2019
The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applications explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media and evolving ...
Lost in the Transit Desert: Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
1st Edition
By Diane Jones Allen
January 17, 2019
Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence ...
Shaping Portland: Anatomy of a Healthy City
1st Edition
By Paddy Tillett
September 27, 2018
Portland is a young city founded on a river bank in a virgin forest less than 200 years ago. Shaping Portland: Anatomy of a Healthy City is about the values engendered by the place, and how those values have influenced the growing city. It examines how and why the public realm supports or obstructs...
Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements: The Rugged, Dialectical Path from Knowledge to Action
1st Edition
By Richard S Bolan
September 27, 2018
Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the link in moving from knowledge to action. Observing that the knowledge domain of the planning profession is constantly expanding, the approach is a deep philosophical analysis of what is the quality ...