Built Environment Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Architecture, Print Culture and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France

   By Richard Wittman

   Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

   This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Presenting a fresh theoretical...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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
5. Biographies & Space

   Placing the Subject in Art and Architecture

   Edited by Dana Arnold, Joanna Sofaer Derevenski

   Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial relationships. Biographical methods of historical...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Barriers to Sustainable Transport

   Institutions, Regulation and Sustainability

   Edited by Piet Rietveld, Roger R. Stough

   Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

   The complexity of transportation systems and their negative social and environmental effects are today at the centre of attention. This book focuses on the impact of institutions and regulatory systems on transport systems and travel behaviour. While institutions appear to play an important...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Planning for Retail Development

   A Critical View of the British Experience

   By Clifford Guy

   Written by a leading expert in the field, this is the first thorough critical review of retail planning policy in Britain (including Scotland and Wales). It covers recent changes in government policy and guidance, and examines retail policy within a broader economic and social context. Planning for...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Gated Communities

   Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments

   Edited by Samer Bagaeen, Ola Uduku

   Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book presents a collection of new writing on the...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Framing Strategic Urban Projects

   Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

   Edited by Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini

   Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences. Helpfully divided into three sections, Framing...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)

    Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment

    By Linda Clarke

    First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that: Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour...

    Published November 21st 2012 by Routledge