Urban Design Books

New and Published Books

1. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Volume 5

   Edited by Michael Hibbard, Robert Freestone, Tore Øivin Sager

   Series: Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

   Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 5 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. The...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

   Town Planning in Modern Society

   By Alison Ravetz

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
3. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal

   Partnerships in Action

   By Rory Shand

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
4. City Halls and Civic Materialism

   Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space

   Edited by Swati Chattopadhyay, Jeremy White

   Series: Architext

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Transport Planning for Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Harry T. Dimitriou

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries. Rates of growth are usually much more dramatic, housing and transport are often provided informally, and institutional support for urban management is also much...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals)

   By Helen Meller

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   By the late nineteenth century, the city had become the dominant social environment of Britain, with the majority of the population living in large cities, often with over 100, 000 inhabitants. The central concern of this book, first published in 1976, is to assess how successful the late...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Emergence in Landscape Architecture

   By Rod Barnett

   All landscapes are complex systems which are continually changing as a result of relatively simple interactions. This condition of adaption and evolution is called emergence. Related to chaos theory and self-organising systems, emergence highlights the ever changing and developing urban...

   Published March 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Staging Mobilities

   By Ole B. Jensen

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   In recent years, the social sciences have taken a ‘mobilities turn’. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not ‘just happen’. Mobilities are carefully and meticulously designed, planned and staged (from above). However, they are equally importantly acted out, performed and...

   Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Street

   A Quintessential Social Public Space

   By Vikas Mehta

   Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and neighborhoods is an important goal of city design. How do we make sociable streets? This book shows us how these ordinary public spaces can be planned and designed to become settings...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
10. Transcultural Cities

    Border-Crossing and Placemaking

    Edited by Jeffrey Hou

    Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge