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.
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
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
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 ...
Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Nicole Gurran, Nick Gallent, Rebecca Chiu
June 28, 2018
In recent years many nations have asked why not enough housing is being built or, when it is built, why it isn't of the highest quality or in the best, most sustainable, locations. Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong examines the politics and planning of new ...
Revolt and Reform in Architecture's Academy: Urban Renewal, Race, and the Rise of Design in the Public Interest
1st Edition
By William Richards
June 28, 2018
Revolt and Reform in Architecture’s Academy uniquely addresses the complicated relationship between architectural education and urban renewal in the 1960s, which paved the way for what is today known as public interest design. Through an examination of curricular reforms at Columbia University’s ...
Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict
1st Edition
By Francesco Chiodelli
June 28, 2018
Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshaping of the Holy City by the Israeli authorities through urban policies, spatial plans, infrastructural and architectural projects, land use and building...
Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites
1st Edition
Edited
By Samer Bagaeen, Celia Clark
June 28, 2018
Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped. The new military ...
Waterfronts Revisited: European ports in a historic and global perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Heleni Porfyriou, Marichela Sepe
June 28, 2018
Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety. By identifying guiding values, urban patterns and typologies, and local...
Paris Under Construction: Building Sites and Urban Transformation in the 1960s
1st Edition
By Jacob Paskins
November 22, 2017
During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour immigration and national identity. As new buildings and infrastructure changed the city, building sites revealed the substandard living and working conditions of migrant ...
Place and Placelessness Revisited
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Freestone, Edgar Liu
November 22, 2017
Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph’s Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design. For four decades, ideas put forward by this seminal work have ...
Placemaking: An Urban Design Methodology
1st Edition
By Derek Thomas
November 22, 2017
End-users provide the most valuable perspective and insights into how public social space should function. Much of the failure of urban settings can be related to over-structured urban environments which deterministically prescribe usage, constraining instead of enabling socio-spatial performance....
Planning and Citizenship
1st Edition
By Luigi Mazza
November 22, 2017
Planning is undergoing a period of profound change and risks losing meaning and authority by becoming merely a tool for financial speculation and generating capital. Planning and Citizenship seeks to rediscover planning’s technical and theoretical roots by reconstructing the memory of planning ...