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.
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
Edited
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 ...
Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets
1st Edition
By Mahyar Arefi
August 03, 2016
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants. "Place matters" has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and urban ...
Heteroglossic Asia: The Transformation of Urban Taiwan
1st Edition
By Francis Chia Hui Lin
August 03, 2016
Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan’s maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan’s urban environment ...
Public Space and Relational Perspectives: New Challenges for Architecture and Planning
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiara Tornaghi, Sabine Knierbein
August 03, 2016
Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going ...
The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space
1st Edition
By Teresa Hoskyns
August 03, 2016
In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice. Establishing the theoretical basis for the study of public...