Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
Sustainable Construction Management and Transportation Planning: Implications for Decarbonisation and Net-Zero Emissions
1st Edition
By Oluwayemi-Oniya Aderibigbe, Taiwo Fadeke Adegbembo, Trynos Gumbo
May 11, 2026
Sustainable Construction Management and Transportation Planning offers a comprehensive analysis of the prospects and challenges of decarbonising the environment. Examining smart technologies, such as drones, blockchain technology, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, the book investigates ...
Sustainable Transport in Eastern Europe: Foundational Concepts and Perspectives
1st Edition
By Frantz Daniel Fistung
March 12, 2026
Exploring the crucial shift towards sustainable transport, this book examines how we can ensure safe and efficient movement of people and goods without compromising future mobility. Transport, while vital to humanity, currently generates negative externalities that can offset its benefits. This ...
Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements in South Africa
1st Edition
By Verna Nel, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens
January 30, 2025
This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa. It presents an overview of alternative land use management system for South African municipalities that is economically, socially, and environmentally more sustainable ...
Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage
1st Edition
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By Mark Alan Rhodes II, William R. Price, Amy Walker
May 31, 2023
All industrialization is deeply rooted within the specific geographies in which it took place, and echoes of previous industrialization continue to reverberate in these places through to the modern day. This book investigates the overlap of memory and the impacts of industrialization within today’s...
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City
1st Edition
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By Dale Leorke, Marcus Owens
January 09, 2023
This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city. Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and ...
Ecologies Design: Transforming Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Peter Connolly, Mark Southcombe
April 29, 2022
The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse. This reflects contemporary concerns for our planet and a new understanding of the primary entanglement of the human species with the rest of the world.The use of the term ‘ecology’ with design tends to refer to how to ...
Planning Wild Cities: Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age
1st Edition
By Wendy Steele
April 29, 2022
This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now ...
The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions: Knowledge, Power and Governance
1st Edition
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By Jens Stissing Jensen, Matthew Cashmore, Philipp Späth
September 30, 2020
Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges. Socio-technical systems are at the heart of these challenges as they configure...
Co-producing Knowledge for Sustainable Cities: Joining Forces for Change
1st Edition
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By Merritt Polk
June 30, 2020
At the current time, many issues and problems within sustainable urban development are managed within traditional disciplinary and organizational structures. However, problems such as, climate change, resource constraints, poverty and social tensions all exceed current compartmentalization of ...
Regenerative Urban Design and Ecosystem Biomimicry
1st Edition
By Maibritt Pedersen Zari
October 17, 2019
It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded. Humans must mitigate the causes of, and adapt to, climate change and the loss of biodiversity, as the impacts of these changes become more apparent and demand urgent responses. These pressures, combined with ...
Imagining Sustainability: Creative urban environmental governance in Chicago and Melbourne
1st Edition
By Julie Cidell
December 19, 2018
Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies. This is due to the combination of growing urban populations and increased action on the part of local governments (generally attributed to national governments’ failure to act on climate change). Imagining ...
Global Garbage: Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment
1st Edition
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By Christoph Lindner, Miriam Meissner
February 06, 2018
Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex ...