Urban and municipal planning and policy

This book, first published in 1982, addressed the need for a fresh and comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding area of urban geography.

This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexities.

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Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities.

Applied Urban Design combines 'why' we design and 'who' we design for, with 'how' we design, by providing the reader with a comprehensive and accessible bespoke framework for both understanding and practicing urban design in a contextually responsive manner from appraisal to design delivery.

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Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today.

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects.

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Podiums, Plazas, Parks, Pedestrian Networks, and Public Art.

Post-industrial urban spaces typically include abandoned factories, disused rail lines, old pits and quarries, and de-commissioned landfills.

Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city, and the goal of this book is to examine the various aspects of redevelopment, its principles and practices in the North American context.

This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century.

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.

The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies.

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China-projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025.

Once considered the antithesis of a verdant and vibrant ecosystem, cities are now being hailed as highly efficient and complex social ecological systems.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

This book asserts that the goal of smart villages should shift from one of extraction to one of community value creation.

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies and increased pedestrian activity.

Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: "e;Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.

This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions.

Affordable and Social Housing - Policy and Practice is a candid and critical appraisal of current big-ticket issues affecting the planning, development and management of affordable and social housing in the United Kingdom.

The Heart of the City concept, which was introduced at CIAM 8 in 1951, has played an important role in architectural and urban debates.

Latinos are one of the largest and fastest growing social groups in the United States, and their increased presence is profoundly shaping the character of urban, suburban, and rural places.

' a brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

Road traffic and its impacts affect all aspects of modern life, leisure and industry, with safety, congestion and pollution being of greatest public concern.

Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.

In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment.

Increasing demand on improving the resiliency of modern structures and infrastructure requires ever more critical and complex designs.

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This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world.

Selling Places explores the fascinating development of the place marketing and promotion over the last 150 years, drawing on examples from Northern America, Britain and continental Europe.

The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo's urban spaces.

As China rises to become the world's largest economy, half a billion rural villagers are expected to become urban residents in the coming decades.

This book is about contemporary issues in architecture and urbanism, taking the form of a project for The Corviale Void, a one kilometre long strip of urban space, immured in the notorious Corviale housing development in the Southwestern sector of Rome.

Regions and cities are on the front lines of many challenges faced by OECD countries today, from education and jobs to health care and quality of life.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South.

This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ecological and economic hazard and disaster resilience.

The author's aim has been to draw together the threads of political and social science and of sub-specialisms within those broad areas of study and to interpret them in the context of urban and regional planning.

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

This book discusses the dynamics and resource management qualities of the peri-urban interface to address climate change consequences, focusing on the peri-urban region of the global city of Bengalaru.