Urban and municipal planning and policy

Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda.

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions.

The most comprehensive treatment of key elements of original surveys, and the research required to find them, which is an important issue in retracement surveys that has never been fully explored.

Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban sprawl, spatial segregation, gentrification, education, housing affordability, regional equity, and more.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data.

Planning is becoming one of the key battlegrounds for Indigenous people to negotiate meaningful articulation of their sovereign territorial and political rights, reigniting the essential tension that lies at the heart of Indigenous-settler relations.

Contemporary art, entertainment, and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.

The world's deserts are sufficiently large that, in theory, covering a fraction of their landmass with PV systems could generate many times the current primary global energy supply.

This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences.

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging.

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities.

I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history.

This is the first book to fully present, analyse and interpret the Dubai real estate market.

Several events in the past few years have dramatically shown how the interests of European citizens are directly affected by the stability, security and prosperity of their neighbouring regions.

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

The 'Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution that aims to challenge the auto-normative paradigm by reversing the broader effects of an urban form shaped by the logic of keeping automobiles moving.

Assessing the full scale of environmental impacts is essential for effective planning of transport and land use.

Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began.

How do digital media (mobile phones, GPS, iPods, portable computers, internet, virtual realities, etc.

From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others landed in The Ward in the centre of downtown.

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape.

How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.

Tan Yigitcanlar offers a comprehensive exploration of artificial intelligence's (AI) role in shaping modern cities.

This book offers a detailed record of one of the world's oldest environmental pressure groups.

An insight into the booming industry of insect leisure and tourism, using case studies and examples from around the world.

Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access to knowledge and experience unavailable to historians of earlier periods.

Published in 1999, this book discusses the role that marginality has had in the past, has today and will have in the future.

The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice.

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map.

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon.

The power of local currencies Communities everywhere are challenged by issues such as health, elder and child care, housing, education, food security and the environment.

This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position.

In one of the first books to treat retailing as a subject of serious analysis, Retailing and the Public examines the state of one of the most important industries in the country.

There have been numerous possible scenarios depicted on the impact of the internet on urban spaces.

The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways.

The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines.

Why do authorities in post-colonial African states continue to employ European or Western planning models?

A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas is the first comprehensive survey to narrate the urbanization of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, making it a vital resource to help you understand the built environment in this part of the world.

Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people's political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and intangible ways.

Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities.

This book demonstrates that contracts, community intermediaries, and participatory processes are closely interlinked, and they can change urban politics.

While often seen as unplanned or spontaneous, informal settlement is better understood as a mode of production: a co-evolution of architecture, urban design and planning that embodies informal rules and shapes urban development.

Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies.

This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.