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.
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 ...
Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Yvonne Rydin, Laura Tate
October 12, 2017
Planning is centrally focused on places which are significant to people, including both the built and natural environments. In making changes to these places, planning outcomes inevitably benefit some and disadvantage others. It is perhaps surprising that Actor Network Theory (ANT) has only ...
Planning Urban Places: Self-Organising Places with People in Mind
1st Edition
By Mary Ganis
June 07, 2017
Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people’s elusive notions of place and perception, time and change. Urban design and planning in a changing urban context so that it remains relevant for people is elusive because the idea of place is embedded in memory and identity – but ...
Territorial Governance across Europe: Pathways, Practices and Prospects
1st Edition
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By Peter Schmitt, Lisa Van Well
June 07, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive framework for analysing, comparing and promoting territorial governance in policy relevant research. It reveals in-depth considerations of the emergence, state-of-the art and evolution of the concept of territorial governance. A unique series of ten case studies ...
Building the Inclusive City: Theory and Practice for Confronting Urban Segregation
1st Edition
By Nilson Ariel Espino
May 25, 2017
Urban segregation is one of the main challenges facing urban development around the globe. The usual outcome of many urban development patterns is an unequal social geography, with the urban poor living in large clusters that are remote, isolated, dangerous or unhealthy. The result is inequality in...
The Robust City
1st Edition
By Tony Hall
December 22, 2016
Cities expand, upwards and outwards, and their physical structure can last a very long time, not just tens but hundreds of years. Nevertheless, they are rarely designed for expansion. Their layout does not allow for extension or for the retrofitting of infrastructure and can constrain, and often ...