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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. 

67 Series Titles


The City in Transgression Human Mobility and Resistance in the 21st Century

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

City Branding The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities

City Branding: The Ghostly Politics of Representation in Globalising Cities

1st Edition

By Alberto Vanolo
June 28, 2018

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions of places, both in the eyes of the inhabitants and in those of potential tourists, investors, users and consumers. City...

Markets, Politics and the Environment An Introduction to Planning Theory

Markets, Politics and the Environment: An Introduction to Planning Theory

1st Edition

By Barry Goodchild
June 28, 2018

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning?’ and as part of this ‘What are its key features as a style of social practice and action?’ and ‘How does planning as a style of social practice relate to social and economic change? How, as part of the ...

Planning for a City of Culture Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York

Planning for a City of Culture: Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York

1st Edition

By Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller
June 28, 2018

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and creating economic development strategies to build their brand, attract residents and tourists, and distinguish themselves from other urban centers ...

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