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.
Mapping: Narratives, Practices and Spatial Inquiry
1st Edition
Edited
By Gihan Karunaratne
December 29, 2025
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and reconfigure urban space. The chapters examine ...
Gentrification in Helsinki: Urban Planning at the Edge of the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Kevin Drain
December 26, 2025
This book unravels the paradox of gentrification in Helsinki, Finland. Here, housing and welfare policies work well under certain conditions to prevent the worst outcomes of residential gentrification. Yet other forms of gentrification have proliferated in recent years, and local urban planning has...
City, Public Space, and Body: The Embodied Experience of Urban Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Mahsa Alami Fariman, Chien Lee, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad, Asma Mehan
November 18, 2025
City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together contributions from scholars, artists, and practitioners across diverse geographies, the ...
Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Raffaele Pernice, Bing Chen
September 29, 2025
This edited volume reviews important contemporary issues through relevant case studies and research in China and Australia, such as the challenges posed by climate change, the development of eco-urban design, research on sustainable habitats and the relationship between ecology, green architecture ...
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Kofi Diko, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Leonard Mensah, Louis Kusi Frimpong
September 10, 2025
Planning for Resilient Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Ghana explores the resilience and planning dynamics and complexities of rapid urban transitions in Ghana’s small and medium-sized cities (SMCs) and their implications for Africa and the Global South. The book argues that Ghana’s urban future ...
Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth
1st Edition
By Parisa Ziaesaeidi
September 05, 2025
Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth explores social sustainability in neighbourhood design, with a particular focus on providing practical design recommendations to improve the lives of children and youth. This book provides insights from research, as well as practical,...
Planning Rural Landscapes: Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Nexus
1st Edition
Edited
By Natália Cunha, Manuela Magalhães
July 31, 2025
Appealing to a broad audience, this book bridges different issues, from landscape to ecosystems, planning to implementation, and policies to local community willingness. This book outlines a methodology for defining green infrastructure (GI) in rural landscapes, showing how it underpins ecosystem ...
Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities and Public Works, c. 1935–46
1st Edition
By Ian Morley
July 31, 2025
Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities and Public Works, c. 1935–46 illuminates the implications of the USA’s final phase of colonial rule in the Philippine Islands. It explores the Filipino side of decolonisation and the management of the built...
Contracting with Citizens: How Morals, Politics, and Laws Shape Cities
1st Edition
By E.W. (Michiel) Stapper
June 17, 2025
This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics. In participatory processes, residents negotiate with policymakers about the future of their neighborhood. In the last few decades, this happened ...
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles: Artists and Communities Working Together
1st Edition
By Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, Anne Bray
May 27, 2025
Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners’ equitable placekeeping efforts. A new concept, equitable placekeeping describes the inclination of historically marginalized community members to steward their neighborhood’...
The Green Belt, Housing Crises and Planning Systems
1st Edition
By Charles Edward Goode
March 31, 2025
This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England. It is one of the most well-known strategies internationally, with similar growth restraint policies having been adopted in a diverse range of cities around the world, such as Portland, Medellin and Bangkok. Despite ...
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka: Power, Politics, and Planning
1st Edition
By Rasheda Khan
March 13, 2025
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion. The book considers how the people of poor neighborhoods encounter the exclusionary behavior of city development, and how ...