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.
Transitory Urbanism
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Displaced Urbanism
1st Edition
Edited
By Gihan Karunaratne
August 27, 2026
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
Edited
By Gihan Karunaratne
August 27, 2026
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...
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
1st Edition
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
1st Edition
Edited
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, ...
Urban Regeneration After Catastrophe: 7 Turning Points in the History of City Planning
1st Edition
By Mary Ganis
June 01, 2026
This book examines how catastrophes—natural, technological, ideological, biological and socioeconomic—transform urban design and planning, potentially creating "turning points" in a city's development trajectory. Through historical case studies, the book traces urban responses to catastrophe: the ...
The Politics of Road Expansion: Debunking Misled Economic Growth Narratives
1st Edition
By Babar M. Chohan
May 29, 2026
This book investigates how arguments for economic growth are perceived and advanced to promote road investment across the world. In the literature, the relationship between building roads and achieving economic growth is heavily reliant on quantitative tools while ignoring the contextual details of...
Contested Airport Land: Social-Spatial Transformation and Environmental Injustice in Asia and Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Irit Ittner, Sneha Sharma, Isaac Khambule, Hanna Geschewski
May 22, 2026
Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South. Empirical studies provide nuanced analysis of socioeconomic, administrative, and political dynamics on the land beyond the airport grounds, such as the project area of greenfield development, the ...
Chinese Collaborative Planning in the Digital Era: Institutions, Power Relations, and Public Spheres
1st Edition
Edited
By Yanliu Lin, Hongmei Lu
May 04, 2026
Chinese Collaborative Planning in the Digital Era: Institutions, Power Relations, and Public Spheres is the first accessible text on theoretical underpinnings and extensive case material on China’s collaborative planning. It questions the validity of agonistic and communicative approaches and lays ...