Built Environment: Planning

Edited by Phil Allmendinger, Graham Haughton, Jörg Knieling, Frank Othengrafen

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with, and complement, formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces, new geographies with blurred boundaries that…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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Regions and Cities

By Paolo Perulli

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies. Contractual relations have increased in every field of social life: in the economic field, but also in the political, and in creative and scientific areas. Contracts are not only…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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Edited by Ignaz Strebel, Jan Silberberger

Much valued by design professionals, controversially discussed in the media, regularly misunderstood by the public and systematically regulated by public procurement; in recent years, architecture competitions have become projection screens for various and often incommensurable desires…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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By Nicole Kalms

Much of feminist architectural scholarship focuses on the enormous task of instating women’s experience of space into spatial praxis. Hypersexual City: The Provocation of Soft-Core Urbanism suggests this attention to women’s invisibility in sociocultural space has overlooked the complex ways in…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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By Gareth Abrahams

Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuze’s most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable planning assessment tool. It shows what his philosophy can do for planning theory as well as planning assessment practice and, in doing so, sets out a…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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Edited by Hubert Heinelt, Wolfram Lamping

Since the 1990s ‘beliefs’, ‘ideas’ or ‘knowledge’ as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have received increasing attention in social science for the understanding of political changes. This book makes a significant contribution to this…

Paperback – 2018-09-18
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By Brendan Murtagh

Social Economics and the Solidarity City explores the impact and potential of the social economy as a site of urban struggle, political mobilization and community organization. The search for alternatives to the neoliberal logic governing contemporary cities has often focused on broad and…

Hardback – 2018-09-17
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Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

By Joanna Richardson

The UK is experiencing a housing crisis unlike any other. Homelessness is on the increase and more people are at the mercy of landlords due to unaffordable housing. Place and Identity: Home as Performance highlights that the meaning of home is not just found within the bricks and mortar; it is…

Hardback – 2018-09-13
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Routledge Focus on Housing and Philosophy

Edited by Laura Lieto, Robert A. Beauregard

Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural ecologies. This being the case, planners are faced with the　task of navigating a profoundly material world. Planning　with and for humans alone is unacceptable: in the…

Paperback – 2018-09-10
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Edited by Lisa M. Abendroth, Bryan Bell

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers. The second book in Routledge’s Public Interest Design Guidebook series, the editors and…

Paperback – 2018-09-04
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Public Interest Design Guidebooks

Edited by Bernadette Hanlon, Thomas J. Vicino

The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of the suburbs. This…

Hardback – 2018-08-30
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Edited by Cara Courage, Anita McKeown

This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development. The book brings together a range of scholars…

Hardback – 2018-08-30
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Routledge Studies in Human Geography