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78 results in Planning and urban geography

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Legacy in the Landscape
  • How Urbanization Shapes Disaster Risk
  • Stephanie E. Chang
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025
  • With its focus on the city rather than the disaster event, this book situates natural disasters in the context of urban growth and change. It offers an original, interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the technical and socioeconomic dimensions of disaster risk and highlighting the commonalities of hazards such as river flooding, coastal flooding, and earthquakes. The book begins by proposing a novel Urban Risk Dynamics framework that emphasizes the roles of economy, landscape, and technology in influencing hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. This framework is then used to support the examination of six contrasting cities from around the world, offering generalized insights that apply to a wide range of urban risk contexts. The book will be of significant interest to students and researchers working in urban planning, civil engineering, Earth sciences, and environmental science, and to policy makers and practitioners concerned with reducing future disaster risk in cities.

Racial Justice in American Land Use
  • Edited by Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold, Cedric Merlin Powell, Catherine Fosl, Laura Rothstein
  • Coming soon
  • Expected online publication date:
    September 2025
    Print publication:
    30 September 2025
  • Over a century after racial zoning was invalidated, American land use remains racially unjust. When racist tools were abolished, other facially neutral tools were created or adapted to maintain white power and wealth. Policies, practices, and laws evolved to embed racial inequality and white supremacy deeply into institutional structures and landscapes. Despite modest improvements since the early twentieth century, land use and neighborhood conditions for Black people and other people of color remain dramatically worse than for whites. Discrimination and segregation persist. This enduring and multi-faceted nature of racial injustice in the American land use system means that there is no one cause and no one solution. Instead, this book advocates for nuanced systemic change. Using cross-disciplinary analysis in social-movement history, legal theory, and public policy, the authors call for a racial-justice transformation that integrates grassroots racial-justice activism, newly revitalized anti-subordination legal theories, and many different public policy reforms.

Town and Country Planning in the Scottish Borders, 1946-1996
  • From Planning Backwater to the Centre of the Maelstrom
  • Douglas G. Hope
  • Published by:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Published online:
    11 March 2025
    Print publication:
    30 August 2023
  • The Scottish Borders comprises the historic counties of Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire, traditionally an area synonymous with woven cloth (tweed), knitwear and agriculture. It is also an area that suffered from rural de-population during the first half of the twentieth century. Against the background of social, economic and political change in the twentieth century, the book provides a detailed account of continuity and change in the practice of town and country planning in the Scottish Borders from the 1940s to the re-organisation of local government in 1996. It shows how town and country planning emerged from being a fringe activity in Borders local government to become a beacon for rural regeneration at the forefront of rural development policy. This book will be an essential read for all those interested in the history of town and country planning in Scotland and for those who love the Scottish Borders.

The Future for Planners

The Road to Nusantara
  • Process, Challenges and Opportunities
  • Edited by Julia M. Lau, Athiqah Nur Alami, Siwage Dharma Negara, Yanuar Nugroho
  • Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    01 March 2024
    Print publication:
    11 July 2023
  • The collective research effort of senior and junior scholars from Indonesia and beyond, The Road to Nusantara: Process, Challenges and Opportunities examines the political, economic, socio-cultural, security and environmental implications of President Joko Widodo's historic plan to move Indonesia's national capital from Jakarta to Nusantara, East Kalimantan. This volume will be of interest to policymakers, Indonesia's neighbours near and far, prospective investors, and students of Indonesia who wish to understand the complex challenges underlying this megaproject.

Contesting Aviation Expansion
  • Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures
  • Steven Griggs, David Howarth
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 January 2024
    Print publication:
    31 May 2023
  • This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impacts on local communities and climate change. The authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to flying, laying the ground for a more sustainable future.

How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside
  • Shaun Spiers
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    21 April 2023
    Print publication:
    14 March 2018
  • Focusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.

Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living
  • Avi Friedman, Alexandra Pollock
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2023
    Print publication:
    06 September 2022
  • The obesity crisis has affected many nations. It is also one of the factors listed as contributing cause to the COVID-19 fatalities. The common tendency is to blame people's dietary choices and sedentary habits. Yet, it can also be argued that social inequity and poor urban planning practices have largely contributed to a lack of active lifestyles. Low-density suburban sprawl, long commutes, food deserts, diminishing green areas are some aspects that have led to reduced physical activity, among residents of all ages.

    The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outline measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles. Each chapter stands for another subject that merit intervention and illustrates strategic approaches. Its uniqueness lies in its comprehensiveness. It covers the key principles of residential planning and offers principles of neighbourhoods' design along sustainable strategies, as well as their applications. The text is not limited to a theoretical aspect but offers contemporary well-designed and illustrated examples of communities and first-hand information about them that was obtained through site visits and interviews with their designers.

Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
  • Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
  • James Nguyen H. Spencer
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2023
    Print publication:
    13 September 2022
  • The central premise of the book, as well as the key lesson for readers is that infrastructure is the backbone of democracy. Without it, the process of collective governance fades beyond the immediacy of daily life. Using this premise, the book describes several case studies from Southeast Asia - rapidly urbanizing communities in Gresik, Indonesia; Can Tho, Viet Nam; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; and Ha Noi, Viet Nam - that illustrate the embeddedness of highly localized governance structures in the built infrastructure. These four case studies illustrating similar community phenomena across differing social, political, and cultural context will encourage readers to consider the material, built environment stakes undelying participatory democracy as well as the importance of democratic participation in the visioning, building, and management of large-scale urban projects.

Securing an Urban Renaissance
  • Crime, Community, and British Urban Policy
  • Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Gesa Helms
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    11 July 2007
  • This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that policies to make cities better are inextricably linked to an attempt to pacify and regulate crime and disorder. It provides discussions from a range of scholars examining policy connections that can be traced between social, urban and crime policy, and the wider processes of regeneration.

The Environments of Ageing
  • Space, Place and Materiality
  • Sheila Peace
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    24 February 2022
  • Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. It contextualises personal experience in national and local spaces and places, considers the value of intergenerational and age-related living and global to local concerns for population ageing in light of COVID-19.

Disadvantaged by Where You Live?
  • Neighbourhood Governance in Contemporary Urban Policy
  • Edited by Ian Smith, Eileen Lepine, Marilyn Taylor
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    25 July 2007
  • Disadvantaged by Where You Live? offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997.

Phoenix Cities

Exploring the Production of Urban Space
  • Differential Space in Three Post-Industrial Cities
  • Michael Edema Leary-Owhin
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    01 September 2022
    Print publication:
    26 February 2016
  • This important book engages critically with Lefebvre’s spatial theories and challenges recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Research in three iconic post-industrial cities in the UK and North America explains how urban public spaces, including differential space, are socially produced.

Ethnicity, Class and Aspiration

Cities for a Small Continent
  • International Handbook of City Recovery
  • Anne Power
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    01 September 2022
    Print publication:
    25 May 2016
  • Through varied case studies, this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, and bigger and smaller cities, over ten years to present a compelling framework showing how Europe’s post-industrial cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.

Subaltern Frontiers
  • Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon
  • Thomas Cowan
  • Published online:
    12 August 2022
    Print publication:
    05 January 2023
  • In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment, and transfer state power to private sector actors. Much of this development has taken place on the outskirts of the traditional metropoles, in the territorially flexible urban frontier. At the forefront of these processes in India, is Gurgaon, a privately developed metropolis on the south-western hinterlands of New Delhi, that has long been touted as India's flagship neoliberal city. Subaltern Frontiers tells a story of India's remarkable urban transformation by examining the politics of land and labour that have shaped the city of Gurgaon. The book examines how the country's flagship post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped and filtered through agrarian and subaltern histories, logics, and subjects. In doing so, the book explores how the production of globalised property and labour in contemporary urban India is filtered through colonial instruments of land governance, living histories of uneven agrarian development, material geographies of labour migration, and the worldly aspirations of peasant-agriculturalists.

Squatting and the State
  • Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis
  • Lorna Fox O'Mahony, Marc L. Roark
  • Published online:
    11 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022
  • Squatting and the State offers a new theoretical and methodological approach for analyzing state response to squatting, homelessness, empty land, and housing. Embedded in local, national, and transnational contexts, and reaching beyond conventional property theories, this important work sets out a fresh analytical paradigm for understanding the deep, interlocking problems facing not just the traditional 'victims' of narratives about homelessness and squatting but also a variety of other participants in these conflicts. Against the backdrop of economic, social, and political crises, Squatting and the State offers readers important insights about the changing natures of property, investment, housing, communities, and the multi-level state, and describes the implications of these changes for how we think and talk about property in law.

Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis
  • Duncan Bowie
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    05 April 2022
    Print publication:
    25 January 2017
  • This book analyses the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviewing the development of policy under successive UK governments and presenting a specific critique of the current Conservative government’s housing and planning reforms.

Who Stole the Town Hall?
  • The End of Local Government as We Know It
  • Peter Latham
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    05 April 2022
    Print publication:
    08 March 2017
  • Arguing that the UK government intends to privatise all local services through its devolution agenda, Peter Latham proposes a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy, including land value taxation and a wealth tax.

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