Urban Studies Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. Companion to Urban Design

   Edited by Tridib Banerjee, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

   Today the practice of urban design has forged a distinctive identity with applications at many different scales – ranging from the block or street scale to the scale of metropolitan and regional landscapes. Urban design interfaces many aspects of contemporary public policy – multiculturalism,...

   Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology

   Edited by Ian Douglas, David Goode, Mike Houck, Rusong Wang

   The birds, animals, insects, trees and plants encountered by the majority of the world’s people are those that survive in, adapt to, or are introduced to, urban areas. Some of these organisms give great pleasure; others invade, colonise and occupy neglected and hidden areas such as derelict land...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
3. Handbook of Local and Regional Development

   Edited by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, John Tomaney

   The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and...

   Published November 11th 2010 by Routledge