Spatial and Regional Planning Books

New and Published Books

1. The Ethical Planning Practitioner

   By Jerry Weitz

   If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them—even if the planner pays for them? Should a planning consultant bid on a project that has a clearly unrealistic timeframe? Can a planning director moonlight for another agency? For practicing...

   Published May 13th 2013 by APA Planners Press
2. Underground. The Way to the Future

   Edited by Georg Anagnostou, Heinz Ehrbar

   Underground – the way to the future was the motto of the World Tunnel Congress 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland. The use of underground space has gained importance during the last years due to the tremendous global urbanization, the high demand on transportation capacities and energy production. All...

   Published May 13th 2013 by CRC Press
3. 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
4. The Futures of the City Region

   Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. Local Food and Community Development

   Edited by Gary Paul Green, Rhonda Phillips

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addressing food insecurity, food has become a focus in community development approaches in many localities. Farmers markets, community gardens,...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. Critical Mobilities

   Edited by Ola Soderstrom, Didier Ruedin, Shalini Randeria, Gianni D'Amato, Francesco Panese

   The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as being constantly reconfigured as they are shaped by a series of mobile entities (capital, people, information). This book engages critically with many of the claims...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

   Edited by Manfred Steger, Anne McNevin

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. Creating Smart-er Cities

   Edited by Mark Deakin

   Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders,...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
9. Planning Los Angeles

   Edited by David Sloane

   Los Angeles isn’t planned; it just happens. Right? Not so fast! Despite the city’s reputation for spontaneous evolution, a deliberate planning process shapes the way Los Angeles looks and lives. Editor David C. Sloane, a planning professor at the University of Southern California, has enlisted 30...

   Published September 26th 2012 by APA Planners Press
10. Reviving Critical Planning Theory

    Dealing with Pressure, Neo-liberalism, and Responsibility in Communicative Planning

    By Tore Øivin Sager

    Series: RTPI Library Series

    Discussing some of the most vexing criticism of communicative planning theory (CPT), this book goes on to suggest how theorists and planners can respond to it. Looking at issues of power, politics and ethics in relation to planning, this book is for both critics and advocates of CPT, with lessons...

    Published August 14th 2012 by Routledge