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.
Waterfront Regeneration in a Time of Climate Change: Recent Japanese and International Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Raffaele Pernice, Tetsuya Yaguchi
July 29, 2025
The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal cities and the often-neglected urban waterfronts,...
Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation
1st Edition
By Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka, Radosław Wolniak
June 30, 2025
Smart Universities in Smart Cities: Shaping the Future of Education and Urban Innovation focuses on how higher education institutions are adapting to the challenges of the digital age in a world increasingly influenced by technology and sustainability. Universities are becoming an indispensable ...
Contracting with Citizens: How Morals, Politics, and Laws Shape Cities
1st Edition
By E.W. (Michiel) Stapper
June 17, 2025
This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics. In participatory processes, residents negotiate with policymakers about the future of their neighborhood. In the last few decades, this happened ...
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles: Artists and Communities Working Together
1st Edition
By Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne Bray
May 27, 2025
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners’ equitable placekeeping efforts. A new concept, equitable placekeeping describes the inclination of historically marginalized community members to steward their neighborhood’...
Displaced Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
May 27, 2025
This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide. It addresses the intricate realities of displacement and its impact on the built environment. Through a series of ...
Resilient Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Gihan Karunaratne
May 09, 2025
As urban populations grow unprecedentedly, cities worldwide face pressures from rapid expansion, climate change, and social inequalities. Resilient Urbanism critically examines how cities, towns, and informal settlements adapt to these multifaceted challenges, exploring urban resilience in the 21st...
The Green Belt, Housing Crises and Planning Systems
1st Edition
By Charles Edward Goode
March 31, 2025
This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England. It is one of the most well-known strategies internationally, with similar growth restraint policies having been adopted in a diverse range of cities around the world, such as Portland, Medellin and Bangkok. Despite ...
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka: Power, Politics, and Planning
1st Edition
By Rasheda Khan
March 13, 2025
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion. The book considers how the people of poor neighborhoods encounter the exclusionary behavior of city development, and how ...
Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism: Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices
1st Edition
By Markus Holdo
March 13, 2025
Can people use new participatory spaces to reclaim their rights as citizens and challenge structures of political power? This book carefully examines the constraints and possibilities for participatory governance under capitalism. To understand what is at stake in the politics of participation, we ...
City-making, Space and Spirituality: A Community-Based Urban Praxis with Reflections from South Africa
1st Edition
By Stéphan de Beer
December 18, 2024
This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people. It traces dynamics in inner city neighbourhoods of South Africa’s post-apartheid capital, Pretoria. Viewing the city through its most vulnerable people and places, it recognizes that urban space is never neutral and shaped ...
Smart Cities in Poland: Towards sustainability and a better quality of life?
1st Edition
By Izabela Jonek-Kowalska, Radosław Wolniak
December 18, 2024
This book considers and examines the concept of a Smart City in the context of improving the quality of life and sustainable development in Central and Eastern European cities. The Smart City concept has been gaining popularity in recent years, with supporters considering it to be an effective tool...
Culture and Sustainable Development in the City: Urban Spaces of Possibilities
1st Edition
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By Sacha Kagan
May 27, 2024
This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban ...