Planning & Urban Design

Edited by Julie Brunner and John Glasson

Contemporary Issues in Australian Urban and Regional Planning looks at a wide range of planning issues in Australia from the city to the regional scale, covering key topics in sustainable development and planning including economic, social, environmental and governance perspectives. Read more

Nicola Dempsey, editor of Place-Keeping: Open Space Management in Practice talks about the book's key insights and its aim to address place-keeping as a multi-faceted concept.

Max Stephenson Jr. and Scott Tate, editors of Arts and Community Change: Exploring Cultural Development Policies, Practices and Dilemmas, discuss the themes of their new book in light of recent civil unrest throughout the US.

Jeff Bishop, author of The Craft of Collaborative Planning, discusses the common shortfalls of land use planning and how his recently published book raises a solution.

Edited by Michael Burayidi

Resilience is the ability of a city to bounce back from an unforeseen catastrophe. Resilient cities are able to snap back to their previous state after a disaster and even develop the capacity to withstand future shocks. Knowing what to do prior to, during and after a disaster is critical to the recovery and resilience of a city. Read more here ...

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This collection is part of the Critical Concepts in Built Environment series. Other Major Work collections publishing in this series include: Planning Theory, Mobilities, Public Space, Urban Landscape and Healthy Cities

Author Margaret Cowell talks about her recently published book, Dealing with Deindustrialization, and how the ‘reshoring’ of manufacturing jobs extends the book's focus on the deindustrialization of the Midwest during the 1970s and '80s.

Routledge introduces a ground-breaking new book exploring creative methods for digital representation of landscapes. 

Routledge presents the latest edition of one of the most fundamental landscape design books.