Urban and municipal planning and policy

The "e;new community"e; movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing.

Originally published in 1984.

Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning?

This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.

Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities.

This memoir of life as a committed pedestrian in a beautiful Southern city explores the many joys and benefits of walking as a way of life.

San Antonio boasts one of the countrys fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck.

The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed.

This book proposes the idea of interstitial space as a theoretical framework to describe and understand the implications of in-between lands in urban studies and their profound transformative effects in cities and their urban character.

The National Mall in Washington, D.

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions.

Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR systems have brought about to different station-cities and their regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better future planning and policy of such systems.

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces.

Recurring and worsening flood incidence around the world has necessitated the understanding and strengthening of community-based flood risk management from an international perspective.

This book advocates an approach to lighting design that focuses on how people experience illumination.

This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities.

Originally published in 1983, when Europe's economies were facing the worst recession since the 1930s, this book reviews the outcome of a quarter of a century of research and practical experience in the field of regional economic management.

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley.

Different people handle risk in different ways.

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed.

Ideal for students and practitioners working in spatial planning, the Europeanization of planning agendas and regional policy in general Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe develops a systematic methodological framework to analyze changes in planning systems throughout Europe.

This book assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.

First Published in 1995.

'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities.

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England.

Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration presents a comprehensive account of UK policies, processes and practices in brownfield regeneration and takes an integrated and theoretically-grounded approach to highlight best practice.

This book explores the transformative power of swarm intelligence and digital innovations in shaping the cities of the future.

This book examines the interplay between rural places and the competing narratives of globalization and nationalism.

Originally published in 1970 Social Planning Techniques for Town Planners introduces social research methods for town planners.

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.

Originally published in 1964 and revised in 1971.

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West.

In the age of global climate change, society will require cities that are environmentally self-sufficient, able to withstand various environmental problems and recover quickly.

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals.

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

This book was first published in 1978.

How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?

A popular version of history trumpets the United States as a diverse "e;"e;nation of immigrants,"e;"e; welcome to all.

What makes a visually appealing landscape?

In einer Zeit, in der der Prozess der Globalisierung die Besonderheiten kleiner Stadte und ihre Vitalitat bedroht und in der sich die meisten stadtplanerischen Diskussionen um Themen wie Metropolregionen oder Mega-Regionen und Weltstadte drehen, betonen die Autoren die Notwendigkeit, das Potenzial kleiner Ortschaften kritisch zu reflektieren.

The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers.

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prosperity, a period when modernisation was a central priority of the state, promising a way forward from the shame of defeat in 1940 to a place at the centre of the new Europe.

Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century.

America holds more than two million inmates in its prisons and jails, and hosts more than two million daily visits to museums, figures which represent a ten-fold increase in the last twenty-five years.