Urban and municipal planning and policy

Jason Wood is Director of Heritage Consultancy Services, Lancaster, UK, and former Professor of Cultural Heritage at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

In recent years, the rapid pace of tall building construction has fostered a certain kind of placelessness, with many new tall buildings being built out of scale, context and place.

There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the formal and social logics of architecture for understanding the psyche.

Congested roads waste commuters' time, cost them money, and degrade the environment.

This book examines the dynamic between citizens' trust and good governance using the case study of Bangladesh.

Second homes have become an increasingly important component of both tourism and housing studies.

This book offers an overview of India's emerging digital economy and the resulting challenges and opportunities for urban workplaces.

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

The design of urban environments is complex and involves diverse needs, organisations, professions, authorities, and communities.

Presents a distinctly local idea of citizenship that, with the advance of globalization, often conflicts with national citizenship.

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livableThe design of every aspect of the urban landscape-from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing-fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners, and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities.

Computational Intelligence in Urban Infrastructure consolidates experiences and research results in computational intelligence and its applications in urban infrastructure.

'Weak market cities' across European and America, or 'core cities' as they were in their heyday, went from being 'industrial giants' dominating their national, and eventually the global, economy, to being 'devastation zones'.

The aspirations of individuals, organizations, and states, and their perceptions of problems and possible solutions circulate fast in this instantaneous society.

China's Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) is an ambitious infrastructure project conceived in 2013 by President Xi Jinping with development and investment initiatives stretching from Asia and Europe that reflect the original Silk Road with business networks through countries such as Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as India and Pakistan, spanning a route of more than 4,000 miles and history that can be dated back more than 2,200 years.

Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy.

In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967.

Natural and human-made disasters appear to be increasing in frequency and scope, commanding extensive media attention.

Trading information is an essential aspect of the negotiations that underpin planning practice across the globe.

Psychological Perspectives on Walking provides a comprehensive overview of the benefits of walking and shows how we can encourage people to walk more based on psychological principles.

By 2025, China will have built fifteen new 'supercities' each with 25 million inhabitants.

Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term.

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century.

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands.

In 1935, the Russian-born Jewish architect Berthold Lubetkin and his firm Tecton designed Highpoint, a block of flats in London, which Le Corbusier called 'revolutionary'.

Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines 'comfort' in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.

Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "e;Fifty Books for Our Time.

The author draws upon case examples of some of today's most acclaimed developments in this book, and recommends best practice guidelines to help developers create vibrant, livable communities-and still make money.

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.

A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conflating emergencies have become more pressing and connected.

Retailer's buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration.

The central role of infrastructure to cities, and in particular their sustainability, is essential for proper planning and design since most energy and materials are themselves consumed by or through infrastructures.

Received the Environmental Design Research Association's 2014 Place Book AwardShortlisted for the UDG Francis Tibbalds Book Award 2014Good cities are places of social encounter.

Bringing together case studies from Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time.

This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world.

This book represents a multidisciplinary and international vision across different countries in Europe that are facing similar challenges about ageing and quality of life in present cities.

The destruction of the World Trade Center complex on 9/11 set in motion a chain of events that fundamentally transformed both the United States and the wider world.

Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean critically examines the socio-geographic context of island states, prioritising the nuanced experiences of Caribbean island states and territories that are largely considered small island developing states (SIDS), against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Metropolitan Planning in Britain is the first comparative analysis and assessment of metropolitan areas and their strategic planning for almost two decades.

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development.

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.

Revolt and Reform in Architecture's Academy uniquely addresses the complicated relationship between architectural education and urban renewal in the 1960s, which paved the way for what is today known as public interest design.

First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists.

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world.