Urban and municipal planning and policy

In a world characterised by rapid urbanisation it is increasingly difficult to devise urban governance models which are resilient, safe and inclusive, and that also preserve the environment.

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition.

Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change.

The practical application of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is becoming increasingly common.

Over the past 15 years, geography has made many significant contributions to our understanding of disabled people's identities, lives, and place in society and space.

The revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last fifty years-the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America-were fundamentally urban revolutions.

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an encounter that determines the entire course of the design process.

Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West.

An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon''s systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.

Urban nature conservation is a field that has grown rapidly in importance over the past 20 years and will continue to do so in the coming years as landscape ecology and greenspace planning become established disciplines.

Originally published in 1986, The High Middle Ages begins in the late twelfth century and ends, not with the arrival of the Tudor monarchs in 1485, but with the destruction of the wealth and power of the Church in the 1530s.

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States.

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning.

This book presents an in-depth look at US infrastructure and its challenges in the 21st century.

In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.

This book will fill a void in the literature around research and program design and the impact of such experiences on learning outcomes within urban agricultural contexts.

Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive.

Urban Design Thinking provides a conceptual toolkit for urban design.

This book highlights the recent research works on sustainable construction, people behavior and built environment which were presented virtually during the 2021 AUA and ICSGS Academic Conference, Global Strategies for a Resilient and Sustainable Post Pandemic World Towards a Better Future for All which was conducted on 26-27 October 2021.

Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures.

Management of big cities is a relatively unresearched area, as compared to city planning and city governance.

Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa.

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency.

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place?

Provides a series of insights into the planning process, introduces the key issues currently facing planning and offers prescriptions for the changes required as we move into the next millenium.

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry.

Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological vulnerability of New York, a city of islands.

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures.

In a world of increasing globalisation, where one high street becomes interchangeable with the next, Identity by Design addresses the idea of place-making and the concept of identity, looking at how these things can be considered as an integral part of the design process.

Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines.

This book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice.

Contemporary Urban Planning, 12e provides students with an unvarnished and in depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in studies of urbanisation.

Many agree that rapid urbanization in China in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is a mega process significantly reshaping China and the global economy.

This book offers a complex and problem-based analysis of the past, present, and future of smart cities in Japan's energy transition.

The temporal and spatial intersection of information and telecommunication technologies, creative and knowledge economies, and related new manufacturing systems, has been leading to significant effects on urban socioeconomic and spatial configurations and public policies.

A bold vision that empowers communities to solve our cities' most pressing problemsAmid political repression and a deepening affordability crisis, Budget Justice challenges everything you thought you knew about ';dull' and daunting government budgets.

This unique book introduces students to the themes and aspects of studying the built environment.

Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

Researchers have responded to urban sprawl, congestion, and pollution by assessing alternatives such as smart growth, new urbanism, and transit-oriented development.

What makes a city?