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
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By Raffaele Pernice, Tetsuya Yaguchi
October 16, 2026
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,...
Infrastructure and Planning in Central and Eastern Europe: Tackling the Challenges of Major Road Investments
1st Edition
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By Tomasz Komornicki, Maciej J Nowak
October 06, 2026
The book will compare and contrast the key problems associated with the planning and implementation of major road investments in selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries: Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania. The CEE countries serve as an excellent ...
Reinventing the Chinese City: Urban Regeneration and Governance in Transition
1st Edition
By Zhu Qian
October 06, 2026
Reinventing the Chinese City: Urban Regeneration and Governance in Transition delves into the intricate relationships between space and society within the context of China’s rescaled urban regeneration. It seeks to uncover and critically examine pivotal aspects of these dynamics. Through a ...
Transitory Urbanism
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...