The Routledge Built Environment group publishes books for students, academics, and professionals across the built environment disciplines around the world. This catalogue marks the start of an exciting time here at Routledge – we have recently acquired Architectural Press and Earthscan, and our publishing in the Built Environment has expanded considerably over the past year. As such we have invested heavily in its continued development with increased staff in editorial, marketing and sales. As part of this expansion, we now have a new global editor for Planning and Urban Design.
Our publishing program is focused around:
• Professional books that provide accurate, up-to-date and reliable information that allows planners, urban designers, architects and other related professionals to better do their jobs and achieve success
• Textbooks that meet the needs of students, lecturers and instructors. Our bestselling Natural and Built Environment Series (http://www.routledge.com/cw/nbe/) is one example of textbooks that are appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and graduate level studies
• Research books that reflect Routledge’s commitment to producing cutting edge, academically rigorous research in planning and urban design from a global perspective.
We attend numerous conferences and visit campuses regularly but we aren’t able to reach all our prospective authors. If you would like to join our distinguished list of Routledge Planning and Urban Design authors, especially if your work fills a gap in our current publishing program, or if you are looking for advice on finding a book for your course, we would be delighted to hear from you.
We hope you enjoy browsing our forthcoming titles and key backlist in this new catalogue. For up-to-date news, please follow Routledge Planning & Urban Design on Facebook and Twitter, or sign up to our email updates by visiting us at: www.tandf.co.uk/eupdates.
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Sustainability Assessment
Pluralism, practice and progress
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some countries, strongly recommended in others, a comprehensive analysis of why Sustainability Assessment is needed and ...
Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge
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The Urban Design Reader
2nd Edition
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 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Town and Terraced Housing
For Affordability and Sustainability
Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of house occupies allows a sustainable high density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating...
Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health
Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally. It has been a dominant mid-to-late twentieth century growth pattern in developed countries and in the twenty-first century has shown widespread signs of proliferation in India, China, and...
Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations
Managing Environmental Power
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him,...
Published January 4th 2012 by Routledge
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The Temporary City
Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the influence of time in planning and design strategies....
Published January 12th 2012 by Routledge
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The Planning Game
An Information Economics Approach to Understanding Urban and Environmental Management
Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe. In this book, Alex Lord uses information economics to outline a way of thinking about these negotiations that places the strategies that actors in the planning game use at the heart of...
Published April 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Companion to Urban Design
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
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Introduction To Environmental Impact Assessment
4th Edition
Series: Natural and Built Environment Series
Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment provides students and practitioners with a clearly structured overview of the subject, as well as critical analysis and support for further studies. Written by three authors with extensive research, training and practical experience in EIA (...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Community Livability
Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities
What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nuture the cause of livable communities? Using a blend of theory and practice, experts in the field look at evidence from international, state and local perspectives to...
Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Sunburnt Cities
The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in the American Sunbelt
In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand is the increasing urgency of addressing the issue of urban decline, and the...
Published January 17th 2011 by Routledge
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The Good City
Reflections and Imaginations
Cities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s...
Published March 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Insurgencies: Essays in Planning Theory
Series: RTPI Library Series
For nearly fifty years John Friedmann's writings have not just led the academic study of the discipline, but have given shape and direction to the planning profession itself. Covering transactive planning, radical planning, the concept of the Good City, civil society, rethinking poverty and the...
Published January 9th 2011 by Routledge
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Cities for People, Not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and...
Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
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The City Reader
5th Edition
Series: Routledge Urban Reader Series
The fifth edition of the highly successful the City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new selections by Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clarence Perry,...
Published January 11th 2011 by Routledge