Built Environment: Planning

By Nadia Amoroso

The fourth book in Nadia Amoroso‘s Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape architectural education. Building on from the previous titles in the series, which look at digital and hybrid techniques, Representing Landscapes:…

Paperback – 2019-01-29
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Representing Landscapes

By Mark Crinson

This title was first published in 2003:  Modernist architecture claimed to be the 'international style' but the relationship between modernism and the new dispositions of nations and nationalities which have succeeded the old European empires remains obscure. In this, the first book to examine…

Paperback – 2019-01-28
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Routledge Revivals

By Rob Fleming, Saglinda H Roberts

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for creating a healthy and resilient built environment. This groundbreaking and transformative approach introduces sustainable design in a clear, concise,…

Paperback – 2019-01-24
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Edited by Ciro Gardi

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss of land for other purposes, particularly soil for agriculture and drainage. This book presents a review of current knowledge of the extension and…

Paperback – 2019-01-23
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Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology

By Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Martin Clarke

The way in which products and services are delivered to consumers, through branches and retail outlets, or more generally through a network of distribution channels, remains fundamentally important for maintaining a competitive advantage for a very wide range of businesses. This is true within…

Paperback – 2019-01-22
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Edited by Mark Scott, Nick Gallent, Menelaos Gkartzios

The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning provides a critical account and state of the art review of rural planning in the early years of the twenty-first century. Looking across different international experiences – from Europe, North America and Australasia to the transition and emerging…

Hardback – 2019-01-17
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Edited by Nezar AlSayyad, Mark Gillem, David Moffat

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?Following Nezar AlSayyad’s Prologue, contributors addressing the first theme take examples from…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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By Heide Imai

The Japanese urban alleyway, which was once part of people’s personal spatial sphere and everyday life has been transformed by diverse and competing interests. Marginalised through the emergence of new forms of housing and public spaces, re-appropriated by different fields, and re-invented by the…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Edited by Rob Roggema

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities.  It…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

By Diane Jones Allen

Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Edited by Svetlana Hristova, Mariusz Czepczyński

Public Space: Between Reimagination and Occupation examines contemporary public space as a result of intense social production reflecting contradictory trends: the long-lasting effects of the global crisis, manifested in supranational trade-offs between political influence, state power and private…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Design and the Built Environment

By Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world. This results in a much higher dependency upon energy-intensive cooling systems and air-conditioners to provide thermal comfort, but how sustainable is this in a world where problems with the…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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Routledge Research in Architecture