This book is about planning, one kind of planning - public planning - of which regional is one strand. It is also a book about change - the need to comprehend and understand change in all its forms…
Regional planning has come of age. In country after country it has become part of the established machinery of government, a necessary function of increased centralization. Yet precisely at the ver…
This book is an essay on the relationship between environmental planning and political theory in Britain, though I hope it will be relevant to any society or to any situation in which there are env…
The book Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance explores the concept of sustainable urban planning in the face of pressing environmental and social challenges. Robert Riddel analyzes innov…
The book Data Management for Urban and Regional Development, published by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), discusses the importance of data management in urban and regiona…
The book Homes, Towns & Traffic explores the relationship between housing planning, urban design, and traffic management. John Tetlow and Anthony Goss analyze how the design of housing and urban in…
The book Planning for a Nation of Cities discusses the challenges and opportunities in urban planning amid the rapid urbanization in the United States. Sam Bass Warner examines the history of Ameri…
Real Cities explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city experiences best described as phantasmagoric and illuminated by the work of Benjamin, Freud and Simmel. While phantasmagor…
The eighth edition of this leading textbook has been thoroughly updated to reflect the significant changes that have occurred in the UK construction industry since the new millennium. Whilst retain…
Exploring the American city as a metropolitan landscape, the book brings together well-known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice to examine roles designers play as professionals…