Planning Books

New and Published Books

1. Transcultural Cities

   Border-Crossing and Placemaking

   Edited by Jeffrey Hou

   Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Emergency Planning Guide for Utilities, Second Edition

   By Samuel Mullen

   An increase in major natural disasters—and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities—has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety. Due to today's complex, compliance-based environment, utility managers and planners often...

   Published January 21st 2013 by CRC Press
3. Of Planting and Planning

   The making of British colonial cities, 2nd Edition

   By Robert Home

   Series: Planning, History and Environment Series

   ‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its...

   Published January 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Design with the Desert

   Conservation and Sustainable Development

   Edited by Richard Malloy, John Brock, Anthony Floyd, Margaret Livingston, Robert H. Webb

   The modern southwestern cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Albuquerque, and El Paso occupy lands that once supported rich desert ecosystems. Typical development activities often resulted in scraping these desert lands of an ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and...

   Published January 15th 2013 by CRC Press
5. Creating Smart-er Cities

   Edited by Mark Deakin

   Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders,...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
6. Unfare Solutions

   Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport

   Edited by Marcus Enoch, Peter Nijkamp, Stephen Potter, Barry Ubbels

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the...

   Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Planning and Place in the City

   Mapping Place Identity

   By Marichela Sepe

   Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural markers that define a city’s uniqueness and make it instantly recognisable. A key task for planners and residents, working together, is to preserve...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
8. Non-traditional Houses

   Identifying Non-traditional Houses in the UK 1918-75 (AP 294)

   By Harry Harrison, Stephen Mullin, Barry Reeves, Alan Stevens

   Non-traditional houses was first published as a book in 2004 and is now available in a fully searchable pdf format on CD ROM. The CD ROM gives building surveyors, engineers and architects easy access to a vast reference library detailing 450 non-traditional house types classified by form of...

   Published December 18th 2012 by IHS BRE Press
9. Urban Regeneration

   Property investment and development

   Edited by J.N. Berry, N.G. Deddis, W.S. McGreal

   This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process. It relates the physical, economic, financial and environmental aspects of urban change and development to the realities of particular cities by case studies drawn from...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Taylor & Francis
10. International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness

    Edited by Paul Cloke, Paul Milbourne

    Series: Housing, Planning and Design Series

    Drawing on recent academic studies in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, this book is the first international text on homelessness in rural areas. Consisting of fifteen specially commissioned chapters, International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness provides...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge