Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
About the Book Series
The Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design series provides the reader with the latest scholarship in the field of planning and beyond. The series publishes international research covering spatial planning, regional planning, planning history, planning theory, communities, impact assessment, transport, sustainability and urban design. Building on Routledge’s history of academic rigor and cutting edge research, the series will contribute to the rapidly expanding literature in all areas of planning and urban design.
Public Space, Peace, and Everyday Life
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By Christine Mady, Stefania Ragozino, Karina Landman
October 23, 2026
Public Space, Peace, and Everyday Life delves into the intricate relationships between public spaces, peace, and the rhythms of daily life. The book explores how peace is actively constructed in public spaces through the dynamics of place, community, and environment. Framed by the entry points of ...
Health, Diversity, and Temporary Appropriation in Public Space
1st Edition
By Jose Antonio Lara-Hernandez, Barbora Melis
October 16, 2026
Cities are designed for order, but lived through improvisation. Contemporary cities are increasingly designed for control, efficiency, and safety, yet everyday urban life continues to exceed these intentions. This book explores how temporary appropriation—the spontaneous and informal use of public ...
Infrastructure and Planning in Central and Eastern Europe: Tackling the Challenges of Major Road Investments
1st Edition
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By Tomasz Komornicki, Maciej J. Nowak
October 06, 2026
The book will compare and contrast the key problems associated with the planning and implementation of major road investments in selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania. The CEE countries serve as an excellent research...
Reinventing the Chinese City: Urban Regeneration and Governance in Transition
1st Edition
By Zhu Qian
October 06, 2026
Reinventing the Chinese City: Urban Regeneration and Governance in Transition delves into the intricate relationships between space and society within the context of China’s rescaled urban regeneration. It seeks to uncover and critically examine pivotal aspects of these dynamics. Through a ...
Film and Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
September 30, 2026
Film and Urbanism contributes to interdisciplinary scholarship by investigating the complex and multidimensional relationship between the city and film as a practice. Moving beyond the idea of a recording and representation method alone, film is approached here as a critical spatial practice that ...
Transitory Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
September 30, 2026
Transitory Urbanism explores how cities are continuously formed and reformed through movement, negotiation, and uncertainty. Rather than viewing transience as an anomaly, it positions instability, mobility, and variation as fundamental to urban life, forces that actively shape cities rather than ...
Branded Heritage and Real Estate: The Making of Urban Value
1st Edition
By Michela Pace
September 03, 2026
Branded Heritage and Real Estate presents a bold and timely investigation into the intersection of two powerful forces reshaping our cities today: the financialisation of space and the strategic use of heritage as a vehicle for profit. Heritage can certainly be consumed, but it can be endlessly ...
De-Siloing Urban Planning
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By Mennatullah Hendawy
August 31, 2026
This book examines why urban planning continues to fall short of its aspirations for equity, sustainability, and resilience. It argues that contemporary challenges cannot be met without fundamentally reconfiguring how knowledge, power, and action are organized. The book present de-siloing as the ...
Planning Digital Cities: Transforming Public Spaces in the Age of Technology
1st Edition
By Fatemeh Elnaz Badel
August 06, 2026
This book explores how digital technologies are reshaping urban public spaces, transforming social interactions, civic engagement, and cultural experiences in cities globally. Through detailed case studies from Singapore, Barcelona, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Istanbul, New York City, Boston, Seattle, ...
Exclusion in Smart Cities: Assessment and Strategy for Strengthening Resilience
1st Edition
By Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radosław Wolniak
July 20, 2026
Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles for assessing the inclusiveness of Smart Cities and outline strategies for ...
Rebuilding Urban Complexity: A Configurational Approach to Postindustrial Cities
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By Francesca Froy
July 20, 2026
This is a book about urban complexity – how it evolves and how it gets destroyed. It explores the structures of interdependency which underpin cities, where the many different “parts” (people, streets, industry sectors) interact to form an evolving “whole”. The book explores the evolution and ...
The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation: Planning Systems, Policies and Instruments
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By Maciej J Nowak
June 22, 2026
The Protection of Green Spaces for Climate Change Adaptation identifies how spatial planning and climate change adaptation are linked by examining the protection of green spaces in cities across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South America and Australia. This book identifies how, in each case, ...