Urban & Land Use Planning

Community Visioning for Placemaking is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities to design better public spaces. It provides a toolkit to encourage and assist organizations, municipalities and neighborhoods to organize visually-based community...

Various kinds of informal and extra-legal settlements-commonly called shantytowns, favelas, or barrios-are the prevailing type of urban land use in much of the developing world. United Nations estimates suggest that there are close to 900 million people...

This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses the transformative possibilities and limitations of the program. It examines the ten core infrastructural...

The subject of driverless and even ownerless cars has the potential to be the most disruptive technology for real estate, land use, and parking since the invention of the elevator. This book includes new research and economic analysis, plus a thorough...

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly, in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of...

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly, in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of...

Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability. Penetrating its global profile and considering urban informality...

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced methodologies. ...

This book charts the history of the application of science in environmental impact assessment (EIA) and provides a conceptual and technical overview of scientific developments associated with EIA since its inception in the early 1970s. The Application...

The aspirations of individuals, organizations, and states, and their perceptions of problems and possible solutions circulate fast in this instantaneous society. Yet, the deliberation of the underlying public norms seems to escape the attention of the...

Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture. This is often in response to technological, economic and...

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient...

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with...

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations. It conceptualises affordability in rural housing along a spectrum that is interlaced with...

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O. Wheeler (1938-2010). The eight papers are informed and inspired by James O. Wheeler's many...

City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they're...

This book was first published in 1939.Book InformationISBN 9780415418263Author William A. RobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 839g

This book was first published in 1943.Book InformationISBN 9781138176324Author Innes H. PearseFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

This book was first published in 1978.Book InformationISBN 9780415417808Author Harriett WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 499g

This book was first published in 1977.Book InformationISBN 9780415417662Author T. A. BroadbentFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 522g

This book was first published in 1947.Book InformationISBN 9780415860451Author Robert E. DickinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 590g

Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contribute to urban transformation at a local level, striking a balance between enthusiastic support for such...

New initiatives, ideas and products change the way we relate to one another and to our environment, as well as the way we define and fulfil our needs. They create opportunities for experimenting and learning, which can help our societies transition...

House Plans for Challenging Sites features more than 350 floor plans, sections, sketches, and elevations, as well as construction details of 35 housing projects which represent a true challenge for architects, either because of their topography or the...

Half of mankind lives in cities, a tendency that has been on the increase for centuries. City dwellers use the greater part of our energy and yet also produce the most pollutants, thus having far-reaching consequences for world climate. Climate change...

In "Learning from Las Vegas" Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown focused on the glamour of the Las Vegas Strip, analysing the city for its postmodernist qualities while ignoring the Mojave desert immediately beyond. Exploring the city at the...

This book documents a project investigating new ways of seeing and contextualising the city. The project encompasses Barcelona, Berlin, London and Sofia. The big city is a sea of signs: we are surrounded by an exciting, pictographic labyrinth, whether in...

All around the world, new city districts are being realized that draw on historical typologies and form languages. In inner cities, new buildings in a historical style are increasingly replacing established existing buildings, in order to bring back...

In urban regions, airport areas are inevitable. They are key infrastructure elements that involve important commercial and spatial factors. Taking the example of Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) in Paris, the author analyzes the planning parameters...

From the first utopian impulse of Plato's Republic to today's global border controls and public space surveillance systems, there has always been a tyrannical aspect to the organisation of society and the regulation of its spaces. Tyranny takes many...

When Urbanization Comes To Ground is a collaborative research project between the Brooklyn-based architecture studio, CAZA, and think tank, SURBA, an urban research collective spearheaded by Carlos Arnaiz and Peter Rowe. Drawing upon case studies...

Widely known for his award-winning design work, the Los Angeles-based architect Craig Hodgetts has distinguished himself as one of the key voices of his generation through trenchant commentary and visionary speculation on architecture and design. This...

A disparate but exuberant group of scholars are brought together in Savannah by an eminent professor to explore and debate the history and characteristics of the city and its implications for a twenty-first century urbanism. This narrative represents a...

By 2030, 79 million baby boomers will have turned 65 at a rate of 10,000 per day. While more than 85 per cent will age in place, a tsunami of challenges and opportunities will compel this cohort to embrace more cooperative structures of living, given...

More than half of America's waterbodies are unsafe for swimming, fishing, and as sources of drinking. Why? Because of unsustainable city building and poor farming practice. Beyond water quality problems, dysfunctional streams cause flooding and erosion...

In Urban Hallucinations, architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighbourhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region. They bring a fresh eye to placemaking and community building in an urban area that is...

Our epoch has been dubbed the Anthropocene Era to mark the significance of human activities as the greatest force of environmental change. The distinctions between biology/technology, organic/synthetic, and natural/artificial are increasingly impossible...

CHANDIGARH RETHINK captures the rich, ongoing discourse on radically transforming urbanities within the Global South with specific reference to India's social, historical, economic and cultural repositioning. It examines urban edge figures and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906155346Author Herbert WrightFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Black Dog Publishing LtdPublisher Black Dog PressWeight(grams) 1361gDimensions(mm)...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781857286373Author Stephen MerrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 363g