Planning & Urban Design

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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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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"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

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 transportation 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 transportation planning. Companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/Low

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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 program and deals particularly with methods to assess the probable effects of road construction in environmentally fragile territories.

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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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With so many great titles publishing this fourth 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.

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.

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.
 

Taking time out of their busy schedules Stephen Ankers, David Kaiserman and Chris Shepley answer some in depth questions about their new book Grotton Revisted ( published in conjunction with the RTPI)

Quotes

"Loved it , I almost had to be resuscitated" - Professor Sir Peter Hall, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London, UK

"It is an extremely funny book, but close enough to the reality of planning practice to be unsettling. It will certainly make you laugh, but it will be a rather nervous sort of laughter." – Australian Planner