Urban Design Books

New and Published Books

1. Transport Planning for Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Harry T. Dimitriou

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries. Rates of growth are usually much more dramatic, housing and transport are often provided informally, and institutional support for urban management is also much...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals)

   By Helen Meller

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   By the late nineteenth century, the city had become the dominant social environment of Britain, with the majority of the population living in large cities, often with over 100, 000 inhabitants. The central concern of this book, first published in 1976, is to assess how successful the late...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Emergence in Landscape Architecture

   By Rod Barnett

   All landscapes are complex systems which are continually changing as a result of relatively simple interactions. This condition of adaption and evolution is called emergence. Related to chaos theory and self-organising systems, emergence highlights the ever changing and developing urban...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Staging Mobilities

   By Ole B. Jensen

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In recent years, the social sciences have taken a ‘mobilities turn’. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not ‘just happen’. Mobilities are carefully and meticulously designed, planned and staged (from above). However, they are equally importantly acted out, performed and...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Street

   A Quintessential Social Public Space

   By Vikas Mehta

   Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and neighborhoods is an important goal of city design. How do we make sociable streets? This book shows us how these ordinary public spaces can be planned and designed to become settings...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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 February 3rd 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 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development

   Edited by Harald Mieg, Klaus Töpfer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

   Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. New Orleans and the Design Moment

   Edited by Jacob Wagner, Michael Frisch

   Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized. Rather than defining the disaster recovery process as simply a matter of rebuilding the existing city, these voices called for a...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Urban Design Reader

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald

    Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series

    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent...

    Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge