City and Urban Planning

This work suggests that as corporations continue to downsize, outsource and re-engineer themselves, an increasing amount of expenditure and employment growth will lie with the leisure sector. It examines the idea that this industry may provide a solution to the decline of towns and cities...

Transcultural Cities collects case studies of intercultural exchange and the urban transformations that have accompanied it. Jeffrey Hou and a talented team of multidisciplinary scholars argue for a more critical and open view of cities, urban places, and placemaking as vehicles for cross-cultural u..

Transforming Asian Cities draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urban practices, identities and spaces as part of, resisting, responding to and avoiding larger global and national processes. The individual chapters illustrate that "global" spaces are more (trans)local, traditional..

Transforming Asian Cities draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urban practices, identities and spaces as part of, resisting, responding to and avoiding larger global and national processes. The individual chapters illustrate that "global" spaces are more (trans)local, traditional..

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of the bunker, throw open the gates, and meet the neighborhood. In this passionate appeal, he introduces those who have already done just that and explains what cities can do to make true urbanism possible...

This unique and comprehensive text offers an original approach to teaching creative writing by exploring ideas, giving advice, and explaining workshop activities and has many contributors from some of today's most popular children's authors including: Jacqueline Wilson, Roger McGough, Philip Pullman..

Examines some of the dramatic economic and social changes that have taken place in London over the last forty years, describing how this has had major consequences for both the social structure and the built environment of London...

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

University Spatial Development and Urban Transformation in China explores the changing relationship between the university and the city from a spatial perspective...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Illustrated throughout, and with lists of further reading in every chapter, this book is ideal for students at all levels who need to get to grips with the economics of the environment within a built environment context. It explains the theory needed to understand crucial tools and economic techniqu..