Designing the Reclaimed Landscape

By Alan Berger

The first practical yet in-depth exploration of how to reclaim the post-industrial landscape, this volume includes excellent case studies by practitioners and policy makers from...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

Cities and Economies

By Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short

Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

Urban Sustainability Through Environmental Design

Approaches to time-people-place responsive urban spaces

Edited by Kevin Thwaites, Sergio Porta, Ombretta Romice, Mark Greaves

What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe?

Urban Sustainability through...

Published December 13th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

Cities and Nature

By Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short

Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. The city has...

Published December 6th 2007 by Routledge.

The Transnational Studies Reader

Intersections and Innovations

Edited by Peggy Levitt, Sanjeev Khagram

In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences. While theoretical approaches to the study of global social phenomena have...

Published November 27th 2007 by Routledge.

Cross-Cultural Urban Design

Global or Local Practice?

Edited by Catherin Bull, Davisi Boontharm, Claire Parin, Darko Radovic, Guy Tapie

Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice? explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardisation. Following analysis...

Published November 26th 2007 by Routledge.

Regional Planning

By John Glasson, Tim Marshall

Regional Planning provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and theory of regional planning in the UK. Drawing on examples from throughout the UK, it...

Published November 15th 2007 by Routledge.

Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology

By Ro Charlton

Rivers are significant geomorphological agents, they show an amazing diversity of form and behaviour and transfer water and sediment from the land surface to the...

Published November 15th 2007 by Routledge.

NGOs as Advocates for Development in a Globalising World

Edited by Barbara Rugendyke

This book traces the recent growth in NGO advocacy. Rugendyke presents empirical findings about the impacts of NGO advocacy activity on the policies and practices...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

Market Towns

Roles, challenges and prospects

By Neil Powe, Trevor Hart, Tim Shaw

Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for evaluating...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.