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European Union policy on rural development and EU research programmes aim to help rural areas of the EU meet the wide range of economic, environmental and social challenges of the 21st Century. However, the challenges facing rural areas of Europe, and their people, remain significant and highly affected by the crises of our current era. This contributed volume comprises 12 research studies, exploring the intersection of research, policy and innovation strategy across the diverse rural regions of the Europe Union.

Conducted in different countries, these studies point to the challenges that lie at the heart of strategic planning in public policy. The book ultimately supports an EU vision for future rural development, digitalisation, sustainability planning and innovation strategy. It is not only a source of data on the problems faced by local communities in different European countries, but offers suggestions for practical use of bottom-up and multiactor perspective for policy-making, business development and community engagement at local, regional and national level. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of rural development, innovation strategy, the agricultural sector and EU policy.

Cities have entered a phase where climate change is no longer a distant projection but an immediate design constraint. Flooding, heatwaves, coastal erosion, water scarcity, and ecological degradation now shape how cities must be planned, built, and maintained. Responding to these pressures requires a fundamental rethinking of urban systems. Nature-Based and Climate Responsive Design for Urban Systems explores how ecological design innovations can strengthen urban resilience and liveability while reshaping the relationship between cities and their natural environments.

This book is the third volume of a trilogy examining climate-oriented design innovation in the built environment. While the earlier volumes focus on conceptual frameworks and strategic directions, this volume emphasises practical design approaches that integrate natural systems into urban infrastructure and spatial planning. Its central premise is clear: future cities must work with natural processes rather than attempt to control or resist them. Nature-based solutions, blue-green infrastructure, and climate-responsive design are therefore positioned as core components of contemporary urban systems.

Through a diverse set of global case studies, the book demonstrates how ecological design strategies can address challenges such as flooding, coastal vulnerability, water management, and biodiversity loss. Examples from Nepal, Bangladesh, Vanuatu, Mexico, Madagascar, and other regions across the Pacific and Global South illustrate how nature-based approaches support environmental restoration, strengthen community participation, and enhance urban adaptability.

By linking design practice with interdisciplinary research, the book contributes to the growing discourse on climate-responsive urbanism and offers practical insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers working toward more resilient and environmentally integrated urban futures.

In the face of increasing climate disruption, this book provides a design-centered investigation of how cities might adapt, recover, and prosper. It positions resilience not as a technical add-on, but as a fundamentally social, ecological, and spatial practice that must be embedded across scales, from materials and buildings to neighbourhoods, infrastructures, and urban systems.

The chapters show how climatic threats including heat, flooding, water scarcity, and catastrophic shocks are changing our conception of urban space in a variety of worldwide situations. The contributions demonstrate how nature-based solutions, water-sensitive planning, circular construction, and regenerative urbanism are now inextricably linked to resilient design. They also show how new technologies like geographic simulation, XR environments, and digital twins are increasing the designer's ability to foresee unpredictability and test flexible solutions before putting them into practice.

The main issue addressed is evident: urban development practice still has difficulty converting resilience concepts into spatial, material, and community-grounded design activity, even in the face of increased awareness of climate risk. In response, this book compiles experimental techniques, conceptual developments, and empirical research that show how resilience may be operationalized in actual projects and locations. It focuses on transferable tactics that can influence professional practice, education, and policy, such as regenerative neighbourhood models, nature-based drainage, climate-responsive public spaces, and circular recovery.

Resilient by Design ultimately argues that the future of cities depends on re-aligning ecological systems, technological innovation, and social inclusion through design thinking. It provides an interdisciplinary knowledge base and a forward-looking agenda for shaping climate-ready urban environments. The book is intended for researchers, urban designers, architects, planners, landscape architects, and policymakers engaged in climate-resilient and sustainable urban development.

Out for Glamour in Africa critically reflects on how Black women utilized Drum magazine, a leading publication in Africa during the era of independence, for political empowerment and constructing notions of Black femininity. Wanjiru G. Mbure terms the concept of femme urbAfricana, a model of Black femininity depicted as urban, political, fashionable, paradoxically Afrocentric, heteronormative, and transnational. Foregrounding stories of the women who embodied these traits and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped their presence in Drum, Mbure argues that these representations of Black women from Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States produced a novel form of Black urban femininity. Utilizing a breadth of archival materials from cover girl photographs, advertisements, and columns, to readers' comments, Mbure reveals the complex relationship between the Black urban woman and the era's contested ideals within a transnational matrix.

A pathbreaking study of the role space and place play in theological thought

What does Christian theology have to do with place? How does theology influence the spaces and places in which we live? How does theology do geography?

In Theology in Place, L. Patrick Burrows develops a framework for the interpretation of the Christian theologies that form and are formed by human practices of place, drawing on theology, geography, and feminist, queer, and critical race studies for the analysis of places, from the perspectives of experience, moral geography, and "weak" theology. He then uses this method to take up a series case studies of lived spaces of Southern religion to show the importance of thinking place in theology: the centrality of bodily communion between living and dead in Decoration Day in the Southern Appalachians; postcolonial "demonic" theology as the basis of spatial-spiritual ability surrounding the urban "renewed" Black neighborhood of Hayti in Durham, North Carolina; the role of heresiology in the construction of the historical and contemporary "imagined South" as the moral ubi of American social reflection; and the relationship between artifice, camp, and mysticism in the complex religious attachments - queer and evangelical - at Dollywood.

Theology in Place shows the necessity and promise of taking place seriously in the study of Christian theology, ethics, and practice. This research contributes to a growing literature on theology, space, place, and the built environment through its focus on race and the American South, especially by drawing on sources that have not previously been a part of these discussions, particularly from feminist, queer, and Black studies.

Based on more than two decades of ethnographic engagement with the urban margins of Brazil, this book offers unique and detailed insights into the "politics of the periphery". Providing a long-term analysis of the residents of the periphery of the city of Recife and their interactions with state representatives and institutions, it contributes to a better understanding of the politics of marginalized populations around the world. Politics of the Periphery takes theorizing beyond state-oriented and Eurocentric approaches and offers scope to understand politics and the state from the urban margins, from the places where an ever-increasing part of the world's population lives. Critiquing approaches that see politics of marginalized populations as an expression of deficient citizenship, as informal politics, or as protest against the authorities, Martijn Koster shows how the politics of the periphery combines resistance with compliance as well as indifference, intertwining formal procedures and meetings with informal negotiations and exchanges.

This book weaves together political anthropology, urban studies, and development studies as it focuses on two central settings of resident-state relationships: government programs and electoral politics. In these settings, it shows how residents deal with urban development, citizen participation, police action, elections, and forms of clientelism. It highlights how their politics revolves around distrust, trust, betrayal and hope as they struggle to secure their place in the city.

A critical examination of the digital imagery and visualization tools that mediate urban life

Animated Urbanism explores the ways urban life is increasingly mediated by digital visualization tools, from elaborate marketing productions to specialized techniques of urban planning that rely on the collection of large datasets. By developing a critical vocabulary for these forms of digital imagery, Gillian Rose investigates the implications of using digital technology to manage the spatial and temporal organization of life in cities.

Pushing back against the so-called smartness mandate, which sees urban existence and its infrastructure as necessarily governed by big data, automation, and artificial intelligence, Animated Urbanism is a nuanced examination of the various types of media structuring urban life and their propensity to replicate highly gendered and racialized forms of human embodiment. From smartphone apps to special effects in movies to sophisticated "fly-through" videos of cities created by urban developers, Rose analyzes the corporate imaginaries that are being created, building on the influential theories of Donna Haraway, among others, concerning the interrelation of technology, power, and human life.

While recent digital analysis often focuses on the political economy of tech platforms or the efficacy of data in smart cities, Rose emphasizes the role of human subjectivity in the shifting configurations of these new urban landscapes. With an incisive, feminist approach to the imagery enabled by software and handheld devices, Animated Urbanism invites us to question how human life emerges from these complex entanglements of technology and visual culture.

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The entanglement of Vancouver's infrastructure in settler colonialism and racialized exploitation

Vancouver, Canada, has long been held up as an environmentally conscious coastal refuge and model of progressive urban planning. Unpacking the troubling complexities that lie beneath the city's otherwise tidy self-image, Terminal City reveals the long, recurring patterns of racialized violence and Indigenous dispossession crucial to its formation.

Examining the histories of Vancouver's infrastructures, including railways, ports, the freeway system, fossil-fuel pipelines, and property, Michael Simpson details the various spatial manifestations of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that constitute the city's urban environment-using it as a case study to reveal such tendencies around the world. Simpson exposes how the seizure of Indigenous lands and the destruction of Black communities has been foundational to the development of the city, and he highlights its structural dependency on these violent legacies, as well as the ongoing struggles to dismantle them.

Bringing together theoretical insights from the fields of urban geography, political ecology, and Indigenous studies, Simpson provides a distinctive intervention into contemporary debates around the material basis of logistics and circulation. At a time when massive upheavals to urban infrastructure are taking place in the hopes of establishing greater sustainability, Terminal City raises important questions about how this moment of transition might be harnessed to bring about decolonial abolitionist futures that redefine what a city can become.

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This book presents an innovative spatial framework for understanding and simulating urban residents' safety perception using street-level imagery and deep learning. Bridging GIScience, environmental criminology, and urban informatics, it explores how micro-scale urban environments shape fear of crime and perceived safety, offering both theoretical insights and practical modeling tools. Leveraging massive Baidu Street View datasets, convolutional neural networks, and spatial regression techniques, this book uncovers how visual features-such as greenery, lighting, cleanliness, and built structure-affect safety perception at fine spatial scales. It further integrates survey data, crime records, and machine learning to simulate perceived safety across neighborhoods. Designed for researchers and professionals in GIS, urban planning, public health, environmental psychology, and smart city development, this book is suitable for advanced students and interdisciplinary scholars seeking new methods in spatial perception modeling.

How writers and artists have used city planning strategies to push back against harm

Black queer feminist thinker Audre Lorde famously declared that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." This language is normally understood as a metaphor, but as author Davy Knittle argues in this provocative book, queer and trans activists have long used the tools of city planning and urban design to create written and visual art that critiques those in power and offers points of resilience to their own communities.

A close look at the ways queer and trans writers and artists resisted predatory redevelopment in New York City from 1950 to 2020, Urbanist Desire draws on the work of James Schuyler, June Jordan, David Wojnarowicz, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Zeyn Joukhadar, exploring how they intervened in major political flashpoints like the War on Poverty, the AIDS-era housing crisis, and gentrification in Brooklyn and Queens. Presenting a new cultural history of New York City, Knittle explains how urban change and the more-than-human life of cities have been foundational concerns for queer and trans cultural production since the 1950s.

Ending with analysis of the 2022 speculative novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, Urbanist Desire looks to the past to imagine a better future for New York City and for all marginalized people. Knittle demonstrates how to move past a recuperative response to harm and toward one that can change the structure of society by documenting how queer and trans activists have engaged the strategies of planning and design to address spatial, social, and economic inequality.

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Design Innovation for Climate-Resilient Built Environments offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how the built environment can adapt to and mitigate the impacts of climate change. Bringing together perspectives from architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, urban planning, real estate, and construction management, the book adopts an integrated lens that examines innovation across multiple spatial scales, from cities and regions to streets, buildings, and communities. By bridging these disciplines, it challenges the traditional silos that often shape the planning, design, and management of built environments

The book begins from a simple observation: cities and buildings have always been influenced by climate. Long before the language of climate resilience emerged in contemporary policy debates, societies developed spatial strategies to cope with heat, wind, water, and seasonal variability. Drawing from this long history of environmental adaptation, the book asks how design intelligence can guide architecture and urban form in an era of accelerating climate uncertainty.

The first part, "Design Intelligence for Climate-Resilient Architecture and Urban Form," presents resilience as a design mindset shaped by vernacular knowledge, ecological thinking, and contemporary architectural innovation, aiming to create adaptive and responsive built environments. The second part, "Technological, Infrastructural, and Systemic Pathways to Climate Resilience," shifts attention to the systems that enable resilience at scale, exploring how technologies, infrastructures, and planning frameworks support climate-responsive cities. Together, these perspectives position the book as both a conceptual guide and a practical roadmap for advancing climate-resilient design and urban development.

This book is the result of five years' research into the transformative regeneration of East London's Docklands, driven by the London Docklands Development Corporation, established in 1981. Drawing heavily on original primary source research, it tells a story much repeated but previously only partially understood. The book sheds new light on the unlikely emergence of the Canary Wharf development, the local and national politics that enabled it, and the maverick individuals who made it happen. It argues that understanding why and how Canary Wharf and the wider Docklands regeneration came about is crucial for understanding how future regeneration projects may or may not succeed.

Based on an ethnographic study of the role and experiences of local businesses, institutions, and community-level actors in Logan Square and Pilsen, two longtime ethnic enclaves experiencing and resisting gentrification in Chicago, Storefront examines local businesses' contributions to communities, how businesses might promote or protest gentrification, and how streetscape transformations can threaten community members' sense of belonging in place. Steven Tuttle untangles issues of community and conflict, segregation and integration, alienation and place attachment, and small business social responsibility from the vantage point of local businesses themselves. In addition to insights about community development, local institutions, and social capital common in qualitative neighborhood studies and gentrification scholarship, Storefront also features a unique focus on local businesses and the racialization of space.

This book investigates the spatial relations between digital media and society, relying on Marshall McLuhan's probes into the effects of communication technology. It argues that McLuhan's ideas may be relevant to understanding how contemporary space, digital media, and society adapt to one another. This aim is pursued in three steps. First, McLuhan's media theory is discussed with a focus on the effects of media in structuring the conditions of space perception at both the individual and the social levels. The concepts of visual and acoustic space are examined in relation to mechanical and electric media, respectively. Second, McLuhan's lifelong interest in the city as a learning environment is contrasted with his claim that cities are obsolete vis-a-vis the global village of instant electronic communication. The contradiction is more apparent than real, as McLuhan imagined a future for cities as programmed environments for the sensory training of citizens and actively engaged in discussions with urban planners and designers. Third, McLuhan's insights are extended beyond his time to make sense of the current relationship between digital media, space, and urban society. The evolution of cyberspace from a virtual realm to its hybridisation with physical space is traced across both literary and scholarly sources. The effects of a hybrid space concept on urban planning and design approaches in the digital age are explored. McLuhan's legacy, with its humanistic breadth, enables an understanding of the present media ecology that moves beyond the efficiency-oriented paradigm of the smart city discourse. The book bridges technological consciousness and social responsibility in the fields of space theory and spatial planning. It targets an audience that is open to interdisciplinary dialogue between science and the humanities to promote sustainable cities and communities.

This book provides a detailed assessment of current smart city technology developments and their applications. It serves as an additional resource for researchers, urban planners, policymakers, and practitioners, showcasing the application of technology in urban environments to promote sustainability, resource efficiency, and livability. The objectives are to provide an analysis of smart systems and technologies adopted in smart cities around the world and to review existing case studies of successful smart city adoption in different parts of the world. Review existing case studies of successful smart city adoption in different parts of the world. To study the potentialities and difficulties accompanying smart city projects. Investigate upcoming smart city technology changes and developments. This book provides real action steps for city planners, politicians, and tech engineers. Future technological innovations strengthen smart city capabilities, making them more adaptable and responsive to their citizens' needs. This edited book delivers extensive research on smart city themes, mapping the theoretical bases and practical usage of these technologies and their prospective pathways. Thanks to its combination of essential theoretical groundwork, practical skills, and progressive outlooks, future readers obtain understanding and capabilities through this book.

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 comprehensive, cross-sectoral, and multi-scalar approach, the book advances an understanding of socioeconomic differentiations, multifaceted relations, institutional systems, administrative structures, and lived experiences tied to urban regeneration.

This study offers a compelling exploration of the social and economic innovations driving urban regeneration in China's evolving political and policy landscape. It examines the transformative changes reshaping society, culture, economy, and space, highlighting how these dynamics differ from earlier redevelopment strategies in terms of spatial patterns, economic impacts, and societal consequences. As social and economic conditions shift, the book delves into the complexities of socio-spatial relations, uncovering emerging challenges, conflicts, and priorities, while also shedding light on the growing influence of entrepreneurialism and the state's expanding role in urban governance.

This book is an essential resource for scholars in urban studies, geography, planning, and development studies, particularly those interested in China's urbanization, heritage, conservation, and environmental challenges. Graduate students and planning practitioners will also find it invaluable for understanding the complexities of urban development and governance in China.

This volume offers a first comprehensive geography of peninsulas, in which 'almost islands' serve as windows onto how peninsularity shapes politics, identity, nation-building and engineering ambitions.

Like other geographies, peninsulas influence, but never dictate, human choices. Nineteen chapters, spanning multiple scales and disciplines, interrogate three interlocking themes: the internal divisions within peninsulas; the tensions across their isthmuses; and the engineering and political imagination that isthmuses provoke. The result is a theoretically grounded yet empirically diverse collection of works that will equip students and scholars with fresh tools for understanding how land, water and borders shape identity, territorial transformations, governance and power.

Written primarily for students and scholars of geography, geopolitics and international relations, it will also appeal to those working in political science, anthropology, history and island studies. Its global reach and accessible writing make it equally relevant to the intellectually curious general reader drawn to questions about place, identity and borders.

Beyond Smart Housing: Bridging Culture, Technology, and Community introduces a holistic understanding of smart living that values both efficiency and empathy, repositioning the idea of smart housing within a human-centered, culturally grounded, and socially aware framework.

In recent decades, the notion of "smart housing" has evolved into a dominant paradigm within architecture, planning, and urban innovation. Yet, much of this discourse remains narrowly focused on technological efficiency, automation, and energy optimization. This book challenges this limited view by exploring the deeper layers of what it truly means for a home, and by extension, a community, to be "smart." It argues that genuine intelligence in housing cannot be reduced to devices, data, or digital connectivity alone, but must also encompass cultural meaning, social interaction, and emotional attachment. The book unfolds in three analytical layers: 1. The House: as an individual unit of living, exploring its psychological, spatial, and sensory meanings; 2. The Home: as a lived and emotional space, shaped by identity, memory, and self-expression; 3. Housing and Neighborhood: as collective systems of life, where cultural intelligence and everyday practices sustain social cohesion. The book draws inspiration from real-world examples including the Dutch woonerf and field observations from Bojnord, Iran, to show how the idea of "everyday intelligence" already exists within lived social patterns. These cases illustrate that true smartness may arise not only from technology but from community behavior, shared awareness, and mutual care.

This book invites scholars and students, urban policymakers, designers, architects, and anyone who has ever wondered what makes a home and neighborhood truly smart to rethink the smart home as a living, learning environment: one that cultivates resilience, inclusivity, and emotional well-being.

This book offers a theoretically informed exploration of the political, cultural, and ecological significance of urban greenery in post-socialist cities. It traces how plants mediate among memory, infrastructure, and regimes of power across diverse historical and geographical contexts.

The book develops a vocabulary for understanding plants as actors, symbols, archives, and processes within urban transformation. It does so through case studies ranging from Polish housing estates, Nowa Huta, the Upper Silesian brownfields, Elblag, Szczecin, Warsaw, Vilnius, and Belgrade to Indian urban imaginaries and Chornobyl's gardens. Drawing on environmental humanities, urban studies, critical plant studies, political ecology, plant blindness, post-political theory, and more-than-human approaches, the book shows how vegetal life participates in memory, governance, conflict, decay, and everyday urban experience.

This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students in urban studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, anthropology, and human geography, as well as to readers interested in post-socialist transformations, urban ecology, and more-than-human approaches to the city.

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 disrupt them.

The volume explores temporary architectures, mobile infrastructures, and adaptive practices that emerge in response to regeneration, environmental pressures, migration, and precarity. It pays particular attention to small, short-lived interventions, improvised shelters, shifting spatial uses, and informal forms of organisation that can evolve into more enduring transformations.

Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, the publication brings together theoretical insights and grounded accounts spanning colonial infrastructures, peripheral regions, refugee settlements, informal housing, and post-disaster contexts. Across these settings, communities adapt, reorganise, and persist despite conditions of inequality and insecurity.

Contributions from architecture, urban studies, anthropology, sociology, politics, and the arts combine conceptual reflection with close attention to places where urban space is actively contested and negotiated. The book further engages themes of inherited systems, diasporic and maritime urbanisms, and everyday strategies for navigating displacement, redevelopment, and environmental change.

Focusing on informal networks, collective organisation, and small-scale practices that sustain urban life, Transitory Urbanism offers a nuanced lens on cities shaped by time, movement, and continual adjustment. It will be of interest to architects, city planners, urban designers, economists, students, and politicians, as well as anyone interested in the current social, cultural, and political issues on a global scale

The Routledge Companion to Urban Planning challenges the conventional boundaries of urban planning, urging the field to embrace the complexities and ambiguities of the urban experience. It contends that urban planning must move beyond binary classifications-such as city/country or society/nature-and instead renew itself through language, theory, policy, and practices that engage with mixed forms, overlapping functions, and ethical concerns that lie in the in-between.

Urban planning, as a discipline, is inherently dialectical, simultaneously producing and undermining classifications that shape how we understand, navigate, and transform the world. Yet, within this tension lies a latent spectrum of alternatives. This volume takes this spectrum as its starting point, assembling 32 contributions from scholars and practitioners across the global North and South to critically interrogate and rework the epistemological foundations of planning. Through diverse empirical and theoretical contexts, the chapters explore how mixed forms, overlapping functions, and substantive questions unsettle conventional approaches to governance and intervention. Contributors examine the origins, contestations, and exclusions embedded in urban planning's classifications, probing their limits and omissions. In doing so, the volume repositions planning as a field that must engage ambiguity, rethink its classificatory logics, and cultivate more adaptive, inclusive, and context-sensitive practices for the worlds between.

This companion will interest scholars and professionals in the areas of Urban Studies, Urban Planning, Governance, Policy Studies, Social Theory, Territorial Management, and Sustainable Development.

This timely book problematises growing structural housing unaffordability and the lack of affordable housing across the advanced economic world. It offers both a historically and geographically sensitive critique of why we face these issues and why we struggle to adequately respond. In addition, it offers in the last chapter informed speculation towards addressing this crisis collectively, equitably and longitudinally.

Utilising a 'Critical-Relational Political Economy' approach, the unaffordability dilemma is linked to converging patterns of cumulative neoliberalising and globalising developments during intense capitalist expansion from the 1970s onwards. Housing unaffordability is not explained by regulatory and planning failures but by a growth model transformation under de-industrialisation, away from labour-inclusive capitalism to city-centric, private landed property-directed political economies. Whereas residential accumulation is characterised by inflationary tendencies, households' capacity to pay for housing largely follows deflationary dynamics. The consequence is politically stimulated, institutionally mediated and structurally variegated housing-labour decoupling on now-epic proportions.

This book will be essential reading for informed audiences interested in housing, spatial planning, economic development and political economies, as well as questions of social, spatial and intergenerational justice. Besides researchers, policymakers and advocates, it will be postgraduate and undergraduate students who will benefit the most from compelling crisis (re)framing and original rethinking of affordable futures for people and places.

Public Space, Peace, and Everyday Life delves into the intricate relationships between public spaces, peace, and the rhythms of daily life. The book explores how peace is actively constructed in public spaces through the dynamics of place, community, and environment. Framed by the entry points of comfort, negotiation, and co-existence, it offers a compelling lens to understand the transformative potential of public spaces in fostering peaceful interactions.

Providing a rich theoretical foundation and post-humanist methodologies to conceptualise the interplay between everyday life and public spaces, the book spans a wide range of disciplines, including urban studies, urban design, urban planning, human geography, urban sociology, anthropology, and urban ecology. This approach is examined through case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, to explain how peace is contextually embedded and constructed across diverse spatio-temporal scales. Readers will gain insights into frameworks for understanding public spaces, methodologies for exploring their dynamics, and reflections that bridge activism, research, and practice.

This book will be of interest to scholars and professionals in urban studies, human geography, sociology, and anthropology, as well as urban planners, designers, and ecologists. By providing spaces that allow users in their everyday lives to move towards co-presence, collaboration and co-dependence, peace would emerge on an ongoing basis. By offering a multidisciplinary perspective, it equips readers with tools to critically engage with the role of public spaces in shaping peaceful and hopeful futures.

Bringing together perspectives from the Global North and South, contributors explore how migrants, from marginalized newcomers to highly skilled professionals, reshape neighborhoods, labor markets, institutions, and political life. They also examine the impact of the history and structure of cities on how migrants settle, access opportunities, and experience belonging or exclusion. Chapters address topics from housing and work to culture, governance, and climate mobility. The Handbook emphasizes that cities are not neutral backdrops but dynamic socio-spatial arenas where rights, resources, and inequalities are organized and contested.

The Handbook on Migration and Cities is a vital resource for scholars and students of human geography, sociology, migration, and urban studies, especially those seeking a comprehensive overview of the migration-city nexus. Practitioners and policy makers working on immigrant integration and urban migration governance will also find great value in its comparative insights.

Cities are designed for order, but lived through improvisation. Contemporary cities are increasingly designed for control, efficiency, and safety, yet everyday urban life continues to exceed these intentions. This book explores how temporary appropriation-the spontaneous and informal use of public space-reveals how people actively shape their environments in ways that support health, diversity, and social interaction.

Bringing together urban design, public health, and social theory, the book advances the concept of temporary appropriation as a fundamental mechanism through which urban life is produced and negotiated. Through international case studies and interdisciplinary analysis, it demonstrates how everyday practices such as play, social gathering, and informal adaptation contribute to physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Moving beyond conventional approaches to placemaking and design, the book introduces the notion of performative healthscapes, showing how health is not simply provided by infrastructure, but emerges through lived spatial practices. It also critically addresses issues of regulation, inclusion, and embodied diversity, highlighting the uneven capacity to appropriate space across different groups.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students in urban design, planning, and urban health, as well as practitioners and policymakers concerned with creating more inclusive and adaptable public spaces.

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 research field, as no group of states in history has ever had access to such substantial external funding for infrastructure development within a short time frame. At the same time, investment outcomes have varied significantly across individual countries. Spatial planning systems are often cited as one of the factors determining the scale and pace of transport investments.

This book will provide a synthetic analysis of the planning considerations involved in the implementation and execution of major road investments. This book will be relevant to academics and students interested in spatial planning and major road investments in Europe.