Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

The Robust City

By Tony Hall

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Cities expand, upwards and outwards, and their physical structure can last a very long time, not just tens but hundreds of years. Nevertheless, they are rarely designed for expansion. Their layout does not allow for extension or for the retrofitting of infrastructure and can constrain, and often...

Published April 14th 2015 by Routledge

Building the Inclusive City

Theory and Practice for Confronting Urban Segregation

By Nilson Ariel Espino

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Urban segregation is one of the main challenges facing urban development around the globe. The usual outcome of many urban development patterns is an unequal social geography, with the urban poor living in large clusters that are remote, isolated, dangerous or unhealthy. The result is inequality in...

Published April 2nd 2015 by Routledge

Heteroglossic Asia

The Transformation of Urban Taiwan

By Francis Chia-Hui Lin

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan’s maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan’s urban environment...

Published January 19th 2015 by Routledge

Public Space and Relational Perspectives

New Challenges for Architecture and Planning

Edited by Chiara Tornaghi, Sabine Knierbein

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going...

Published October 20th 2014 by Routledge

Dealing with Deindustrialization

Adaptive Resilience in American Midwestern Regions

By Margaret Cowell

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States. What happened next as leaders reacted to the news of each plant closure and to the broader deindustrialization trend that emerged during this time period is...

Published October 7th 2014 by Routledge

The Empty Place

Democracy and Public Space

By Teresa Hoskyns

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice. Establishing the theoretical basis for the study of public...

Published July 8th 2014 by Routledge

Deconstructing Placemaking

Needs, Opportunities, and Assets

By Mahyar Arefi

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants. "Place matters" has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and urban...

Published May 2nd 2014 by Routledge

Brand-Driven City Building and the Virtualizing of Space

By Alexander Gutzmer

Series: Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design

This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial – and urban – reality. It develops a novel understanding of the rationale behind the construction of large-scale architectural complexes that relate to corporate brands,...

Published July 5th 2013 by Routledge