Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia
About the Book Series
Rapid urbanization and booming cities in Asia allude to the need for new urban planning and development theories to help examine the current phenomenon and foretell future trends. This timely book series provides insights on sustainable planning and development from across Asia. It looks at Asian cities and their best practices of building sustainable cities, regions, and communities. The book series also explores ways in which Asian cities address the wicked problems of climate change, social inequality, and ageing population, as well as how they capitalize on opportunities from disruptive technologies and innovation. More importantly, this series hopes to offer new directions for sustainable planning and development in uncertainties and changes. The interdisciplinary approaches to making cities and communities sustainable will make this series central to fostering knowledge.
If you would like to discuss a potential new book for the series, please contact: Richard Hu, the series editor, [email protected] or Kendrick Loo, Routledge commissioning editor, [email protected]
The Political Economy of Housing the Urban Poor: An Asian Perspective
1st Edition
By Yap Kioe Sheng
June 26, 2026
This book critically examines the application of the enabling housing strategy in Asia. It assesses why this market-driven strategies have systematically strategy failed to meet the housing needs of the urban poor in Asian cities. The book evaluates various approaches including land sharing, ...
Sustainable Urban Planning in China: Implementing Circular Economy Principles in Small- and Medium-sized Cities
1st Edition
By Pei Liang, Duo Jia, Rehemanjiang Wufuer, Elendu Collins
February 13, 2026
This book examines the pressing challenges of urbanization and ecological degradation through the lens of circular economy principles. The book provides a detailed look at how cities can develop sustainably by integrating new planning strategies that promote economic growth while protecting the ...
Pursuing Sustainable Urban Development in North Korea
1st Edition
Edited
By Pavel P. Em
December 26, 2025
This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources. With a focus on five major areas—population, economics, architecture, urban planning, and culture—the ...
Urban Renewal in Central Seoul: Planning Paradigm Shifts
1st Edition
By Hyung Min Kim
December 26, 2025
Kim details a brief history of urban renewal in central Seoul through articulating urban planning paradigm shifts. This book illustrates four main themes in central Seoul: the restoration of the Cheonggye stream, the redevelopment of the Sewoon Plaza, the enhancement of walkability and public ...
Building Urban Resilience: Singapore’s Policy Response to Covid-19
1st Edition
By J.J. Woo, Debbie R. Loo
September 29, 2025
This is one of the first few books to discuss the Covid-19 crisis as an urban phenomenon and illustrates this through the case of Singapore and its pandemic response efforts. The book describes the implications and impacts of the pandemic on Singapore’s urban landscape, economy, and society. It ...
Megaregional China
1st Edition
By Richard Hu
June 27, 2025
This book unravels China’s new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system. It draws upon a diversity of megaregional cases: city clusters of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, Yangtze River delta region, and ...
Degrowth through Knowledge-Based Development: Social Flourishing in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
By Francisco Javier Carrillo
May 16, 2025
This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state. In doing so, it addresses the literature gap on continued social improvement within a post-growth economic and cultural paradigm. Carrillo consolidates research on...
Sustainable Development and Construction in Asia
1st Edition
By Larry Xiancun Hu
December 31, 2024
This book illuminates fundamental knowledge and provides a comprehensive guide for those seeking to understand the intricacies of sustainable development and construction in Asia. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific aspect of sustainable construction, offering in-depth analysis, case studies, ...
Disaster Resilience and Sustainability: Japan’s Urban Development and Social Capital
1st Edition
By Hitomi Nakanishi
May 27, 2024
This book examines urban planning and infrastructure development in Japanese cities after the second world war as a way to mitigate the risks of disasters while pursuing sustainable development. It looks at the benefits of social capital and how communities organise to tackle problems during the ...
Data-centric Regenerative Built Environment: Big Data for Sustainable Regeneration
1st Edition
By Saeed Banihashemi, Sepideh Zarepour Sohi
September 25, 2023
This book examines the use of big data in regenerative urban environment and how data helps in functional planning and design solutions. This book is one of the first endeavors to present the data-driven methods for regenerative built environments and integrate it with the novel design solutions. ...
Urban Flood Risk Management: Looking at Jakarta
1st Edition
By Christopher Silver
May 31, 2023
Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challenge for decades dealing with the growing frequency and intensity of flooding. Jakarta’s flood problems since the 1990s have been nothing less than ...