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.
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 ...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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 ...