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This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban growth centres today is more than an economic or social left-over or a niche practice. It is instead a complex system that offers multiple potentials for…
Hardback – 2015-09-21
Routledge
Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology. An understanding of the mapping of this phenomenon is crucial for urban planners. The book brings together experts in the field of Urban Climatic Mapping to provide the state of the art…
Hardback – 2015-08-16
Routledge
Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in traffic management and transit congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies. In…
Paperback – 2015-07-14
Routledge
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…
Paperback – 2015-06-29
Routledge
Natural and Built Environment Series
Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles. Worldwide health issues such as obesity, mental illness, growing health inequalities and climate vulnerability cannot be solved solely by medicines but also by…
Hardback – 2015-06-11
Routledge
Beginning with the foundations of community development, An Introduction to Community Development offers a comprehensive and practical approach to planning for communities. Road-tested in the authors’ own teaching, and through the training they provide for practicing planners, it enables students…
Paperback – 2014-11-23
Routledge
With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the disparate literature on the use of vegetation in the built environment and its multifunctional…
Paperback – 2015-07-20
Routledge
The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban…
Paperback – 2015-07-15
Routledge
Routledge Urban Reader Series
Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in traffic management and transit congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies. In…
Paperback – 2015-07-14
Routledge
Robyn Eversole, author of Knowledge Partnering for Community Development, discusses the theoretical and practical approach of knowledge partnering and its significance in the development process.
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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.
Josiane Meier, co-editor of Urban Lighting, Light Pollution and Society, discusses Milan, Italy's impending shift to LED street light technology and how her recent book uncovers some of the implications of changing urban lighting systems.
Author David Thorpe discusses his new book, The 'One Planet' Life, and the concepts behind one planet living.
Eric Bruun, author of Better Public Transit Systems, answers a few questions about his book and makes suggestions on transit systems analysis.
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We are pleased to present our latest books, covering a wide range of key areas within the subject of Planning & Urban Design, for students, instructors, researchers and practitioners. You will find whatever you need to further your own research or professional interests, challenge and support your students, or to provide essential reference materials for your institutional library.
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