Urban and municipal planning and policy

This book has been developed in association with the Cultural Heritage Department of the Council of Europe.

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain''s transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

This book addresses issues that waterfronts face in small Mediterranean port towns due to increases in the tourism industry.

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available.

This Element proposes a conceptual-methodological vantage point that examines urban development to address power inequalities.

By 2050, an additional 2.

Ensuring optimum ventilation performance is a vital part of building design.

With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport.

As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases.

The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattles architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the regions built environment.

Urban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environments in Baguio City, designed by American architect and planner Daniel Burnham in the early twentieth century, and established by the American imperial government as a place for healing and well-being.

How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world?

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities.

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers.

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians' safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts on street, path, and park aesthetics and neighborhood sense of place.

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010.

Despite developments in urban design during the last few decades, architects, urban planners and designers often continue to produce areas of bland, commercially led urban fabric that deliver the basic functional requirements of shelter, work and leisure but are socially unsustainable and likely generators of future problems.

Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the changes in China's planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and informative details in language that is accessible enough for the undergraduate but thoroughly grounded in a wealth of research and academic experience to support academics.

High Speed Rail's (HSR) main objective is to attract air passengers between big metropolitan areas however the main territorial implications in many cases occur not in these metropolitan areas but in the intermediate cities.

Real Estate and Urban Development in South America uncovers how investors are navigating South American real estate markets in commercial, residential and infrastructure development.

Since the earliest settlements, people have deliberated the issues that affect their future together.

Winner of the Planning Institute of Australia's 2015 Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award!

Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impact has become pivotal to urban planning.

This book explores the attributes of an integrated model for infrastructure delivery as a means to achieve high impact investing, sustainable growth and development in a developing economy.

Since its publication in 1976, Ted Relph's Place and Placelessness has been an influential text in thinking about cities and city life across disciplines, including human geography, sociology, architecture, planning, and urban design.

This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial - and urban - reality.

The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.

Britain's high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years.

Innovation, Networks and Learning Regions?

Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities.

Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus.

Originally published in 1981, this book explores the plight of the locally born or locally employed faced with spiralling house prices and strong and unequal competition from the wealthier commuter, second-home owner or retirement migrant.

Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.

This book will address the destruction of urban forest in nine cities by bombing during World War II and the Bosnian War  and their reconstruction in the post-war years.

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity.

In developing countries the price of rapid growth is all too often noxious airborne pollution, which annually contributes to a disturbing number of avoidable deaths.

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces.

WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDIs the smart city the utopia weve been waiting for?

With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle.

A comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerceStreet commerce has gained prominence in urban areas, where demographic shifts such as increasing numbers of single people and childless "e;empty nesters,"e; along with technological innovations enabling greater flexibility of work locations and hours, have changed how people shop and dine out.

Following the crisis of the Special Period, Cuba promoted urban agriculture throughout its towns and cities to address food sovereignty and security.

Originally published in 1991.

In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made.

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries.