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On these pages you will find information on the Routledge list which covers City and Urban Planning, Housing and Communities, Planning and Sustainability, Planning History, Planning Theory, Spatial and Regional Planning, Transport Planning, Urban Design and more in the subject of Planning & Urban Design.
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The Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development, recognizing that all revenues and expenditures are spatially related. The Spatial Method focuses on estimating existing fiscal impacts of detailed…
Paperback – 2019-02-22
Routledge
Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world. Demonstrating the diversity of global flood risk management (FRM), this volume covers a range of topics including planning and policy, risk governance and…
Paperback – 2019-01-31
Routledge
Earthscan Water Text
Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment. Today, autonomous vehicles (AVs, also referred to as self-driving cars) represent the next disruptive innovation in…
Paperback – 2018-12-13
Routledge
Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking. Easy to read and often entertaining, the book showed that city parking policies subsidize cars, encourage sprawl, degrade urban design,…
Paperback – 2018-04-11
Routledge
The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they…
Paperback – 2018-02-05
Routledge
Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities arise. Beyond connecting people with urban water bodies, waterfront promenades offer many social and ecological benefits. They are places for social…
Paperback – 2017-06-22
Routledge
Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life. But in the contemporary Western city, production has been hidden or removed, and commerce and consumption have dominated. This book is about the importance of production in the life of the city, and…
Paperback – 2020-01-08
Routledge
In modern-day society the main threats to public health are now considered ‘avoidable illnesses’, which are often caused by a lack of exercise and physical activity. Research suggests that architectural and urban design strategies play an important role in reducing the amount of avoidable illnesses…
Paperback – 2020-01-01
RIBA Publishing
First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations. It’s proposal to distinguish the infill from the support - what users can individually decide in a housing process from what users share - has turned out to be…
Hardback – 2019-12-31
Routledge
Routledge Revivals
Dawn Jourdan and Eric J. Strauss, authors of Planning for Wicked Problems discuss the uniqueness of their new book and what got them interested in the topic.
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A complete listing of textbooks from Routledge in the fields of Planning and Urban Design
Our key titles for professionals, across the Built Environment disciplines.
BRE is an independent and impartial, research-based consultancy, testing and training organisation, which offers expertise in every aspect of the built environment and associated industries. Routledge has been IHS BRE Press’ partners since 2010, distributing their publications worldwide to practitioners, researchers, and manufacturers who need to stay informed of developments in an ever-changing industry.
We publish an extensive list of books to help with all of your refurbishment and renovation needs from regulations to conservation and energy efficiency to design and planning.
Our latest books, covering a wide range of key areas within Sustainable Built Environment for students, instructors, researchers, and professors.
Grace Harrison is the Commissioning Editor for books on Landscape Architecture and Product Design for professionals, students and scholars. Published in a variety of formats and, where appropriate, highly designed and illustrated, these books cover diverse topics including landscape design and conservation; climate-adaptive design; history and theory; urban landscapes; design thinking; sustainable design; materials and technology. She also commissions research monographs in the areas of landscape, planning, interiors and architecture and is happy to receive proposals from new and established authors.
Kate Schell publishes books on the Planning and Urban Design list across a range of text types, including textbooks for undergraduate and graduate courses, heavily illustrated professional titles for practicing planners and urban designers, and research titles comprising monographs, edited collections, and handbooks. She is particularly interested in developing the list’s handbook offerings as well as titles focused on issues of social justice, sustainability, and voices from the Global South. For professional titles she is looking for books focused on best practices and guiding policy.
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