Urban and municipal planning and policy

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

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

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation.

Marie Rose Wong peers through the lens of single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels to capture the 157-year origin story of Seattle's pan-Asian International District.

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

Urban systems now house about half of the world's population, but determine some three quarters of the global economy and its associated energy use and resulting environmental impacts.

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices.

Across European cities the use of urban space is controversial and subject to diverging interests.

Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children.

Over the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing aging population, declining birth rates, and widening social disparities.

Mayoral takeovers of big city public education systems are desperation measures.

Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'.

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

Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region.

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters.

Across Europe, the number of co-housing initiatives is growing, and they are increasingly receiving attention from administrators and professionals who hold high expectations for urban liveability.

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities.

The author's classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages.

Increasing urbanization and increasing urban density put enormous pressure on the relationships between people and place in cities.

Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe.

This book provides a cross-urban account on murals, street art, and public art in cities around the globe.

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic.

Aesthetics and the City engages aesthetics to explore the role of the city in urban experience.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale.

When Lyon's population experienced significant growth in the eighteenth century, architect Jean-Antoine Morand made a radical proposal: France's second city would expand across the river Rhone, making him rich in the process.

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism.

The book tackles a number of challenging questions: How can we conceptualize architectural objects and practices without falling into the divides architecture/society, nature/culture, materiality/meaning?

This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries.

In a context where climate change urgently requires us to alter our paradigms, this book explores the possibilities of cities that are both more energy efficient and more respectful of the environment.

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sanchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerationally enriched environments.

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War.

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healthy.

This book examines the paved road as a liminal space and legal frontier for enlivened, everyday struggles over property, power, and place/definition.

This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning.

This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication toward the establishment of meaningful architecture.

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Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexities.

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain.

Disruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "e;sharing economy"e; are manifesting in cities and regions throughout the world, and how policy makers are responding to these disruptions.

Making exhibitions is a collaborative art, producing is a multi-layered unity of ideas and objects, of invention and manifestation, of content and form.

This book analyses the adaptive reuse potential of inner-city modern movement car parking structures for controlled environment agriculture systems and the contribution of such a transformation to urban development.

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world.

Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury.

This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl.

Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America examines intervention initiatives in informal settlements in Latin American cities as social, spatial, architectural, and cultural processes.

The contributors of Policy, Planning, and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans.