Built Environment: Planning

Edited by Adenrele Awotona

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan. The book draws together expert contributions from…

Hardback – 2019-08-08 
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Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

By Yasser Elsheshtawy

Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction? Is their fate obsolescence? Or, are they the model for our urban future? Can a city whose very existence is predicated on an imported labour force who build and operate these gleaming urban centres remain a…

Hardback – 2019-06-30 
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Planning, History and Environment Series

By Liz Falletta

Housing is an essential, but complex, product. So complex that professionals involved in its production, namely architects, real estate developers and urban planners, have difficulty agreeing on "good" housing outcomes. Less-than-optimal solutions that have resulted from a too narrow focus on one…

Hardback – 2019-06-20 
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Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

By Craig A. Leisy

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact of the transportation network company (TNC) industry (Uber and Lyft) on the taxicab industry in Seattle, Washington beginning in 2014. The events that…

Hardback – 2019-06-13 
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Edited by Demetrio Muñoz Gielen, Erwin van der Krabben

Traditionally, the public sector has been responsible for the provision of all public goods necessary to support sustainable urban development, including public infrastructure such as roads, parks, social facilities, climate mitigation and adaptation, and affordable housing. With the shift in…

Hardback – 2019-05-21 
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Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Edited by Anna P Lane

Around the world, researchers, policy makers and practitioners are working to ensure cities and communities are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanized populations. Bringing together stakeholders from Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, this book presents…

Hardback – 2019-05-01 
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

By Li Tian, Yan Guo

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, the process by which fringe areas of cities develop. Recent institutional change has helped clarify property rights over collective land, facilitating…

Hardback – 2019-04-29 
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Routledge Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City

By David Adams, Peter Larkham

Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction and Regeneration focuses on such debates and experiences in Birmingham and Coventry as they recovered from Second World War bombings and post-war industrial collapse.…

Hardback – 2019-04-23 
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By Julian Bolleter

Desert Paradises: Surveying the Landscapes of Dubai’s Urban Model explores how designed landscapes can play a vital role in constructing a city’s global image and legitimizing its socio-political hierarchy. Using the case study of Dubai, Bolleter explores how Dubai’s rulers employ a paradisiacal…

Hardback – 2019-04-18 
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Routledge Research in Landscape and Environmental Design

By Paul Emmons

Drawing Imagining Building focuses on the history of hand drawing practices to capture some of the most crucial and overlooked parts of the process. Using 80 black and white images to illustrate the examples, it examines architectural drawing practices to elucidate the ways drawing advances the…

Hardback – 2019-04-15 
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Edited by Barbara Zibell, Doris Damyanovic, Ulrike Sturm

This book explores the extent to which gendered approaches are evident and effective in spatial development in selected European countries. Beginning with an introduction to theories and concepts of gender, space and development, the book includes a brief historical review of gender in spatial…

Hardback – 2019-04-15 
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Routledge Studies in Gender and Environments

By Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Gehan Selim

Northern Ireland has a complex urbanism with multi-layered socio-spatial politics. In this environment issues of communication, self-representation and expression of identity are central to the experience of urban space and architecture where the dichotomy of division and shared living are…

Hardback – 2019-04-09 
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Routledge Research in Architecture