Spatial and Regional Planning Books

New and Published Books

1. Introduction to Rural Planning

   Economies, Communities and Landscapes, 2nd Edition

   By Nick Gallent, Iqbal Hamiduddin, Meri Juntti, Sue Kidd, Dave Shaw

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   Introduction to Rural Planning: Economies, Communities and Landscapes provides a critical analysis of the key challenges facing rural places and the ways that public policy and community action shape rural spaces. The second edition provides an examination of the composite nature of ‘rural...

   Published June 25th 2015 by Routledge
2. Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices

   Edited by Norman Walzer, Jane Leonard, Mary Emery

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability. This book examines some of the latest efforts to document the effectiveness of local development efforts. The types of...

   Published June 25th 2015 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Creative Cities Policy

   Invisible Agents and Hidden Protagonists

   Edited by Allan Watson, Calvin Taylor

   In recent years, there has been high level of interest amongst policy-makers in the ‘creative city’ concept, due to the anticipation of economic and social benefits from a growing cultural and creative economy. However, a lack of understanding of local social and economic contexts, as well as the...

   Published June 15th 2015 by Routledge
4. Impacts of European Territorial Policies in the Baltic States

   Edited by Garri Raagmaa, Dominic Stead

   Urban and regional development in the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries has experienced rapid changes since their re-independence at the beginning of the 1990s. Meanwhile, urban and regional planning institutions and organizational cultures in the Baltic States have...

   Published June 15th 2015 by Routledge
5. The Ethical Planning Practitioner

   By Jerry Weitz

   If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them—even if the planner pays for them? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing...

   Published June 14th 2015 by APA Planners Press
6. Integrated Urban Models Volume 2: New Research and Applications of Optimization and Dynamics (Routledge Revivals)

   By Stephen H. Putman

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Following on from Integrated Models Volume 1: Policy Analysis of Transportation and Lane Use (Routledge Library Editions, 2006), this book bridges the gap between the scholars and the practitioners of transportation and land-use modelling. First published in 1991, chapters discuss...

   Published June 12th 2015 by Routledge
7. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Volume 4

   Edited by Thomas L. Harper, Michael Hibbard, Heloisa Costa, Anthony Gar-On Yeh

   Series: Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning....

   Published May 22nd 2015 by Routledge
8. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Volume 3

   Edited by Thomas Harper, Anthony Gar-On Yeh, Heloisa Costa

   Series: Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   This is the third book in the series offering a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse...

   Published May 22nd 2015 by Routledge
9. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Volume 2

   Edited by Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson, Henri Acselrad

   Series: Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into...

   Published May 22nd 2015 by Routledge
10. Society and Environment: A Historical Review

    By Jaqueline Tyrwhitt

    Series: Studies in International Planning History

    Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. This book includes four of Tyrwhitt’s key texts to illustrate how she forged and promoted a synthesis of Patrick Geddes’ bioregionalism and the utopian ideals of European Modernist urbanism, which influenced post-war...

    Published May 14th 2015 by Routledge