Regions and Cities
(formerly Regional Development and Public Policy)

Series Editors: Ron Martin, University of Cambridge, UK, Gernot Grabher, University of Bonn, Germany and Maryann Feldman, University of Georgia, USA

In today's new globalised, knowledge-driven and networked world, regions, cities and city-regions have assumed heightened significance as the interconnected nodes of economic, social and cultural production, as sites of new modes of economic governance, and as spaces where the processes of technological change, institutional innovation and policy experimentation are being played out. This book series brings together incisive and critically engaged international and interdisciplinary research on this resurgence of cities and regions, and should be of interest to geographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and cultural scholars, as well as to policy-makers involved in regional and urban development.

30% discount for Regional Studies Association Members

The Natural and Built Environment Series
Series Editors: John Glasson, Head of School of Planning, Oxford Brookes University and Michael Bruton, Professor Emeritus, Cardiff University

The Natural and Built Environment Series encompasses environmental planning and management in its widest sense. This series of introductory and core texts includes many books that are essential reading for planning students.

THE RTPI Library Series
Series Editors: Cliff Hague, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, Tim Richardson, Aalborg University, Denmark and Robert Upton, RTPI, London, UK

Published by Routledge in conjunction with The Royal Town Planning Institute, this series of leading-edge texts looks at all aspects of spatial planning theory and practice from a comparative and international perspective.

The series:

• explores the dimensions of spatial planning and urbanism, in relation to people, place, space and environment
• develops the theoretical and methodological foundations of planning
• investigates the relationship between theory and practice
• examines the contribution of planners to resolving social, economic and environmental concerns.

By linking planning to disciplines such as economics, anthropology, sociology, geography, environmental and urban studies, the project’s inherent focus on sustainable development places the theoretical and practical relationships between social, economic and environmental issues in their spatial context.

The Royal Town Planning Institute is Chartered to advance the science and art of spatial planning for the benefit of the public. The Institute was founded in 1914. It currently has 17,500 members, in Britain and Ireland and nearly 90 other countries.

Planning is concerned with the making of place and the mediation of space. Planning is key to the practice of sustainable development because it deals with the physical spatial relationships between our economic, social and environmental objectives.

If you are interested in contributing to the series, please contact Robert Upton.

Submission of proposals for the series should: provide an outline of the rationale and approach of the book;

• provide details of the contents of each chapter
• note the current literature available
• provide estimated word length
• number of illustrations and delivery date

The Networked Cities Series
Series Editors: Richard Hanley, New York City College of Technology, City University of NY, US Simon Marvin, SURF, Salford University, UK

From the earliest times, people settling cities devised clever ways of moving things: the materials they needed to build shelters, the water and food they needed to survive, the tools they needed for their work, the armaments they needed for their protection – and ultimately, themselves. Twenty-first century urbanites are still moving things about, but now they employ networks to facilitate that movement – and the things they now move include electricity, capital, sounds, and images.

The Networked Cities Series has as its focus these local, global, physical, and virtual urban networks of movement. It is designed to offer scholars, practitioners, and decision makers studies on the ways cities, technologies, and multiple forms of urban movement intersect and create the contemporary urban environment.

Housing and Society
Edited by Ray Forrest, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol

This series aims to situate housing within its wider social, political and economic context at both national and international level. In doing so it will draw on the full range of social science disciplines and on mainstream debate on the nature of contemporary social change. The books are intended to appeal to an international academic audience as well as to practitioners and policymakers – to be theoretically informed and policy relevant.

Housing, Planning and Design
Series Editors: Nick Gallent and Mark Tewdwr-Jones, both at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK

A series of books examining the interface between housing policy and practice, and spatial planning. Various facets of this interface are explored, including the role of planning in supporting housing policies in the countryside, the pivotal role that planning plays in raising housing supply, affordability and quality, and the link between planning / housing policies and broader areas of concern including homelessness, the use of private dwellings, regeneration, market renewal, and environmental impact. The series positions housing and planning debates within the broader built environment agenda, engaging in a critical analysis of different issues at a time when many planning systems are being modernised and prepared for the challenges facing 21st century society.

THE ARCHITEXT SERIES
Series Editors: Thomas A. Markus, University of Strathclyde, UK and Anthony D. King, Binghampton University, USA

Architectural discourse has traditionally represented buildings as art objects or technical objects. Yet buildings are also social objects in that they are invested with social meaning and shape social relations. Recognizing these assumptions, the Architext series aims to bring together recent debates in social and cultural theory and the study and practice of architecture and urban design. Critical, comparative and interdisciplinary, the books in the series, by theorizing architecture, bring the space of the built environment centrally into the social sciences and humanities, as well as bringing the theoretical insights of the latter into the discourses of architecture and urban design. Particular attention is paid to issues of gender, race, sexuality and the body, to questions of identity and place, to the cultural politics of representation and language, and to the global and postcolonial contexts in which these are addressed.

The Planning History and Environment Series

Series Editor: Professor Dennis Hardy, Middlesex University, UK
Technical editor: Ann Rudkin, Alexandrine Press, Oxford, UK

The Planning, History and Environment series provides planners and architects, social scientists and historians worldwide with unique access to the origins and development of city and regional planning, urban design and conservation. The books in this series provide researchers, students and professionals with a superb information resource and a stimulating context for debate.

This series offers a unique window on the creation of the modern environment. Designed for an international readership, the emphasis is on:

• urban and regional planning
• recent as well as longer-term history
• what the past can tell us about the present
• local as well as global and comparative topics.

The books address three themes:

• regional, continental and comparative studies
• planning histories of key cities
• changing planning ideologies and policies.

20% discount for International Planning History Society members and affiliated scholarly socieites

Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
Series editor: David Banister, University College London, UK

This series focuses on material derived from the substantial ongoing research worldwide. Titles link the themes of transport, development and sustainability to other policy areas such as competitiveness, environment, cohesion, integration or social policy. All scales of decision making and policy in transport are covered from the EU to the global, and from the EU to the national, regions and cities. Case study material covers modes of transport, participation, pollution, development and regeneration to illustrate their main themes.

Modern Concrete Technology
Series Editor: Arnon Bentur National Building Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Sydney Mindess University of British Colombia

A series of books presenting the state-of-the-art in concrete technology. There have been significant advances made in concrete technology in recent years. However, the results of this recent research are still either widely scattered in journal literature, or mentioned only briefly in standard textbooks. The aim of this books series is to examine, to some depth, each topic of interest to provide uniform, high quality coverage forming a library of reference books covering all the major topics in Modern Concrete Technology. Primarily the books are of single or dual authorship, although, for certain books, edited volumes consisting of a collection of chapters may be considered more appropriate. The material is presented at a level suitable for senior and postgraduate engineers working in concrete technology.

Structural Engineering: Mechanics and Design
Series Editors: Professor Ken P. Chong, National Science Foundation, USA,Professor P. Balaguru, Rutgers University, USA

Innovative structural engineering enhances the functionality, serviceability and life-cycle performance of our civil infrastructure systems. As a result, it contributes significantly to the improvement of efficiency, productivity and quality of life. Whilst many books on structural engineering exist, they are widely variable in approach, quality and availability. With the Structural Engineering: Mechanics and Design series, Spon aims to build up an authoritative and comprehensive library of reference books presenting the state-of-the-art in structural engineering, for industry and academia.

CIB

CIB, the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, is a world-wide network of over 5000 experts from about 500 member organisations active in the building and construction research community, in industry or in education. Cooperation takes place through over 50 Commissions and Task Groups which initiate projects for R&D and information exchange, organise meetings and produce publications. This series consists of a carefully selection of state-of-the-art reports and conference proceedings from CIB activities.

Clays Library of Environmental Health
Series Editor: W H Bassett FCIEH, DMA, was previously Chief Executive and Director of Housing and Environmental Health at Exeter City Council, UK, winner of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Presidential Award 1991, and Honorary Fellow of the School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter.

An increasing breadth and depth of knowledge is required to tackle the health threats of the environment in the 21st century, and to accommodate the increasing sophistication and globalisation of policies and practices. Clay’s Library of Health and the Environment provides a focus for the publication of leading-edge knowledge in this field, tackling broad and detailed issues. The flagship publication Clay’s Handbook of Environmental Health, now in its 18th edition, continues to serve environmental health officers and other professionals in over thirty countries.

Applied Geotechnics
Series Editor: William Powrie is Head of the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton, UK. He is a recognised authority on retaining walls and related structures and author of the noted textbook Soil Mechanics, now in its second edition and published by Taylor & Francis.

Applied Geotechnics is a new cutting-edge series presenting a range of carefully selected titles across the range of geotechnics. The emphasis is on the practical rather than the purely theoretical, and on topics which are either new and emerging or definitive but unduly neglected in the literature.