Routledge Planning & Urban Design - Books, News and Conferences

Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate (October 2012)

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"We have our challenge laid out — Two Degrees provides a well-structured guide in which anyone who designs or builds in the built environment can find lasting value."—Ed Mazria, founder and CEO, Architecture 2030

This book now includes the feature to LOOK INSIDE THE BOOK. All you have to do is just click on the link to go to the book page on the website

Transcultural Cities (January 2013)

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In Transcultural Cities Jeffrey Hou and a cross-disciplinary team of authors argue for a more critical and open approach that sees today’s cities, urban places, and placemaking as vehicles for cross-cultural understanding.

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The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia (March 2013)

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This is the first book on IIRSA and its implications for South America and more specifically for Amazonia. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the infrastructure programme and deals particularly with methods to assess the probable effects of road construction in environmentally fragile territories.

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Planning and Place in the City (December 2012)

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In Planning and Place in the City, Marichela Sepe explores the preservation, reconstruction and enhancement of cultural heritage and place identity. She outlines the history of the concept of placemaking, and sets out the range of different methods of analysis and assessment that are used to help pin down the nature of place identity. This book also uses the author's own survey-based method called PlaceMaker to detect elements that do not feature in traditional mapping and identifies appropriate planning interventions.

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RIBA Publishing titles now available from Routledge

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We are delighted to announce that RIBA Publishing books are now available via Routledge, for customers outside of the UK and Ireland.

RIBA Enterprises remains the exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland.

The Street by Vikas Mehta

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Transforming Urban Transport (November 2012)

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Drawing together leading scholars from different disciplines in Australia, Japan and China, this book provides a unique fusion of Asian and Australasian perspectives and engages with the coming needs of transport planning practitioners in both high density and dispersed cities. Complete with a companion website with a wealth of supporting material around the topic, this is essential read for all students and practitioners of transport planning. Companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/Low

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Low-Carbon Land Transport

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Housing and Society Series

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Series Editor: Ray Forrest, City University of Hong Kong and University of Bristol

This series aims to situate housing within its wider social, political and economic context at both national and international level. In doing so it will draw on the full range of social science disciplines and on mainstream debate on the nature of contemporary social change. The books are intended to appeal to an international academic audience as well as to practitioners and policymakers – to be theoretically informed and policy relevant.

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Best Tall Buildings 2012 (October 2012)

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Best Tall Buildings 2012 contains overviews of the nominees and winning projects from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s annual awards. The book provides vital statistics, images, plans and in depth accounts of the architectural design and sustainability features of the year’s best tall buildings. Additionally included is the official list of the World’s Tallest Buildings with the judging criteria from the foremost authority on tall buildings. Full colour illustrations and photographs throughout.

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Masterplanning Futures ( July 2012)

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Lucy Bullivant analyses the ideals and processes of international masterplans, and their role in the evolution of many different types of urban contexts in both the developed and developing world. This is a key book for those interested in today’s multiscalar masterplanning and conceptually advanced methodologies and principles being applied to meet the challenges and opportunities of the urbanizing world.

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Building Inclusive Cities (August 2012)

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Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women’s safety in the context of poverty reduction and social inclusion. Drawing upon two decades of research and grassroots action on safer cities for women and everyone, Building Inclusive Cities is about the right to an inclusive city.

October 2012 Newsletter Related Titles

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With so many great titles publishing this quarter it has been impossible to give them all the justice they deserve in our October Newsletter, so to be sure you don't miss out you can find them all below. Those of you who received our October update will have a discount code for 20% off when you buy online. If you are not already registered you can sign up for future newsletters here.

Celebrate the Olympics with Routledge

2012-09-03T14:10:00Q

What better way to get in the mood for the Olympics than to celebrate with Routledge.

For the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics we will be showcasing some of our new and key books and journals related to the Games.

Sustainable Collective Housing by Lee Ann Nicol

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