Urban and municipal planning and policy

Streets are places that stimulate activities, interactions, behaviours and, by extension, controls.

This book presents a selection of the best papers submitted to the International Ecocity World Summit held in Vancouver, October 7-11, 2019.

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing.

Sprawl is an unsustainable pattern of growth that threatens to undermine the health of communities globally.

Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States.

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities.

In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current housing policies and programmes in India.

Certain bizarre spaces, where disruption or disarray rule, leave us estranged and 'out of place'.

This book presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study on the effects of urban agriculture (UA) on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the quality of life in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria.

In this innovative work Jean Hillier develops a new theory for students and researchers of spatial planning and governance which is grounded primarily in the work of Gilles Deleuze.

Transport connects people, places and cities.

The application of technology, in smart cities, to create meaningful sustainability is set to change all our lives.

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

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.

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy.

An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focussing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capital's financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth century.

Take a shortcut!

This book introduces the interlocking disciplines of property and planning to economic theory and practice.

American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay.

In recent years, there has been high level of interest amongst policy-makers in the 'creative city' concept, due to the anticipation of economic and social benefits from a growing cultural and creative economy.

This book brings together key works of the noted architect and architectural theorist Christopher Alexander (1936-2022), many of which have not been published before.

Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other.

Focusing on democratization, flexibilization, ethnic diversity and restructuring of transitional and emerging states, this volume analyzes the changes and challenges for administrative structures at the beginning of the 21st century, from a geographical perspective.

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.

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.

China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980.

This book clarifies the smart city concept that is gaining application in Sub - Saharan Africa.

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies.

Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States.

This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia.

This book covers all the main aspects of government policy and practice in British inner city regeneration.

Often misunderstood, the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists, artists, visionaries, and the promise of a new beginning for millions of people.

Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic-a truly unique-urban place, that blends global and local, old and new.

This Elements provides an overview of the history of epidemics using a range of cities around the world.

Everyone is calling for smart growth.

This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building.

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

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.

Bringing together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan, this book offers a state-of-the-art survey of conceptual and methodological research and planning issues relating to landscape, heritage, [and] development.

Cities expand, upwards and outwards, and their physical structure can last a very long time, not just tens but hundreds of years.

Reflective Planning Practice: Theory, Cases, and Methods uses structured, first-person reflection to reveal the artistry of planning practice.

This book critically interrogates dominant narratives surrounding displacement by offering an in-depth examination of how it unfolds across diverse urban and rural settings worldwide.

Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban anthropology, the politics of the past and postcolonial materialities.

This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment.

Wild salmon, trout, char, grayling, and whitefish (collectively salmonids) have been a significant local food and cultural resource for Pacific Northwest peoples for millennia.

This book combines Construction 6.