Urban and municipal planning and policy

Building information modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyse, and display a digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of a facility.

Examining the water, development and security linkages in Central Asia can feel a bit like solving a Rubik's cube.

Originally published in 1985, this book considers many important aspects of the transport systems of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet?

As a result of global dynamics-the increasing interconnection of people and places-innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet.

Originally published in 1981, this volume provides a systematic and detailed critique of the practice of transport planning.

Since its publication in the early 90s, Brenda Boardman's Fuel Poverty has been the reference text for those wishing to learn about this complex subject.

This book examines the challenges of urbanization in the global south and the linkages between urbanization, economic development and urban poverty from the perspectives of cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid- and high-rise modular housing that can be manufactured and distributed on a global scale.

Livable Cities: Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening elucidates on livability in urban areas, providing readers with definitions and indicators of what makes a city livable.

Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives.

This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity.

The second book in a series looking at management techniques which could be implemented by a business in order to improve its environmental performance, this text identifies the best practices and examines the key tools within the framework of corporate environmental management.

Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States.

Das vorliegende Buch untersucht mit der oberösterreichischen Mittelstadt Wels eine Stadt "off the map", die nicht im Zentrum der gesellschaftlichen und auch wissenschaftlichen Aufmerksamkeit steht.

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner.

The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century.

First published in 1974, The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning discusses the processes of spatial planning and the range of subject knowledge which is required to contribute to it.

Originally published in 1981, Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, is a comprehensive collection of papers addressing urban crises.

Photovoltaics is already an economic and practical option for providing electricity in many situations such as remote housing, in hybrid systems and for some service applications.

This important book is a must for everyone concerned with the heritage and future of Canada's parks.

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades.

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire.

This book explores Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11, providing insights into viable pathways and policy designs for a transition towards sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities.

The text offers a critical perspective on complex and consequential aspects of growth and change in London, viewed through the lens of multiscalar space and brought to life through exemplary case studies.

In this superbly illustrated book Xiaofei Chen presents the first analysis in English of a ubiquitous East Asian urban phenomenon: the supergrid and superblock urban structure.

Writing is never easy, but this book can make it easier.

As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration.

Seoul, as one of Asia's rising global cities, has been a place where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have taken place over the last five decades.

Luigi Moretti: Lessons of SPAZIO focuses on the theoretical work of the Italian architect Luigi Moretti (Rome, 1906-1973).

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.

Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour.

Internet and World Wide Web platforms, big data analytics, software, social media and civic technologies allow for the creation of smart ecosystems in which connected intelligence emerges and disruptive social and eco-innovation flourishes.

End-users provide the most valuable perspective and insights into how public social space should function.

Creating peace for a city's intimate enemies is harder than making war.

A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.

Informality through Sustainability explores the phenomenon of informality within urban settlements and aims to unravel the subtle links between informal settlements and sustainability.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse.

Metropolitan growth and development results from a complex mix of factors.

The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book.

A significant ideological transition has taken place in the discipline of architecture in the last few years.

The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown.

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations.

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context.

This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control).

How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.