Regional & area planning books

This sixth edition of Cities, Change, and Conflict features a new, groundbreaking chapter on the relationship between...  Read More >>

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting...  Read More >>

This book explores the nexus between fiscal, political, and legal arrangements for subnational governments as they...  Read More >>

Through a series of investigative studies, this book critically discusses and compares different cases, innovations...  Read More >>

This book investigates the political, social, and economic dynamics and structures that influence the leadership...  Read More >>

This book considers the promotion of the SDGs through the lens of norm diffusion theory, with a focus on three SDG...  Read More >>

This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing...  Read More >>

This Handbook provides readers with a strong foundation for understanding the practice of Environmental Impact Assessment...  Read More >>

This book, aimed at students in urban studies, critical geography and planning, uses a unique typology of ten core...  Read More >>

This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development...  Read More >>

Featuring up-to-date and insightful analyses and comparative case studies from a plethora of countries, this timely...  Read More >>

This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: the meaning of home rests...  Read More >>

This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies....  Read More >>

"This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban...  Read More >>

Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, underline common aspirations....  Read More >>

This book addresses changing relationships between families and their homes. The book confronts how transformations...  Read More >>

This book clarifies the smart city concept that is gaining application in Sub – Saharan Africa. It shows how the...  Read More >>

Understanding pandemic resilience requires input from different disciplines. This book, with worldwide contributions...  Read More >>

"""An original exploration of the emancipatory potential of urban commons, drawing on research in Latin American...  Read More >>

This book concerns the study of open-air accommodation facilities. The market evolutions allow us to look at these...  Read More >>

Rapid urban population growth has created complex challenges for cities, ranging from infrastructure to sustainability....  Read More >>

This book introduces and demonstrates the state-of-the art research and development in tackling sustainable urban...  Read More >>

Urbanization is giving rise to vibrant and volatile urban India as engine of economic activities that contributes...  Read More >>

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Challenging mainstream architecture’s understandings of place, this book offers an illuminating clarification that...  Read More >>