City and Urban Planning

The Pedestrian and the City provides an overview and insight into the development, politics and policies on walking and pedestrians: it includes the evolution of pedestrian-friendly housing estates in the 19th century up to the present day. Key issues addressed include the struggle of pedestrianizat..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

With due emphasis on the experience of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), the authors present an account of what happened to the towns and cities of Vietnam between the establishment of Ho Chi Minh's socialist state in 1954 and the mid 1980s...

Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation, and focusing in particular on Poland, this book gives an account of the major problems of regional restructuring...

The rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated and witty appraisal by a Pulitzer Prize historian._x000D_ Constance McLaughlin Green traces the forces - economic, political, social - that led to today's urban civilization, ..

The Robust City arrives at an original and controversial prescription for the future planning of cities by taking a rational argument to its logical conclusion...

There has been a growing recognition that planning ideas emerging from the industrialised economies of the ‘Global North’ are not necessarily appropriate in regions of the world with very different social, political and economic contexts. This books seeks to respond to this set of challenges by show..

The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning includes 27 chapters that answer questions that confront planners working in urban and regional areas in 21st century Australia. It provides a single source for cutting edge thinking and research across a broad range of the most import..

Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged th..

Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged th..

Defines participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities...

The book brings together experts in the field of Urban Climatic Mapping to provide the state of the art understanding on how urban climatic knowledge can be made available and utilized by urban planners...