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.
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 ...
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 ...