Books in the Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design series

The Virtual and the Real explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media and evolving computation software have impacted the ways in which people experience, explore, interact with and create these complex spaces.

A unique new tool for community planners, Placemaking: An Urban Design Methodology emphasises the importance of the community while taking into account the expertise of the planner in creating public spaces.

The book presents conceptual, practical and research challenges and brings together findings from activists, practitioners and theorists.

Planning and Citizenship seeks to rediscover planning's technical and theoretical roots by reconstructing the memory of planning through the lens of the changing relationship between planning and citizenship.

Paris Under Construction explores the social, political and cultural responses to construction work and urban transformation in Paris during the 1960s, arguing for the need to place social interaction and collaboration at the heart of the design and construction of cities.

A unique new tool for community planners, Placemaking: An Urban Design Methodology emphasises the importance of the community while taking into account the expertise of the planner in creating public spaces.

Drawing on evidence from Australian, British, Japanese, and North and South American urban settings, Place and Placelessness Revisited is a collection of cutting edge empirical research and theoretical discussions of contemporary applications and interpretations of place and placelessness.

This book brings together an international range of contributors to explore such potential of Actor Network Theory (ANT) in more detail.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Virginia, 2010) under title: Revolt and reform in architecture's academy:: Columbia and Yale in the 1960s.

Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on an often forgotten, but one of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation.

This book explores the role of participatory design in keeping these participatory processes public. It addresses four specific lines of enquiry: how can the use and development of technologies and social media help to diversify, coproduce, interrupt and document democratic design experiments.

This book examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to understand its significance in planning and geography. Case studies of New York, Paris, Cairo, Mumbai, Tokyo and Los Angeles explore specific metaphors allowing the reader to understand the city from differing points of view.

The Virtual and the Real explores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design. Technological advances such as smart sensors, interactive screens, locative media and evolving computation software have impacted the ways in which people experience, explore, interact with and create these complex spaces.

This book presents insight into the design and practical results of obligations in different countries and their effects on municipal financial health, demonstrating the increasing importance of efficient bargaining processes and the institutional design of developer obligations in urban planning.