Urban and municipal planning and policy

American cities are rediscovering the economic and social value of urban manufacturing.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

First Published in 2006.

New York in Cinematic Imagination is an interdisciplinary study into urbanism and cinematic representations of the American metropolis in the twentieth century.

This book is about the soul of the city, embodied in its spaces and people.

As the Regional Plan Association embarks on a Fourth Regional Plan, there can be no better time for a paperback edition of David Johnson's critically acclaimed assessment of the 1929 Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs.

Planners internationally have employed green belts to contain the explosive sprawl of cities as varied as Tokyo, Vienna and Melbourne during the twentieth century.

The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.

Originally published in 1979 and with a case-study from Indonesia, this volume examines the question of planning the provision of transport facilities as a special case of the general planning problem.

Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change presents an introduction to the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment.

It's widely accepted that our environment is in crisis.

For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making.

Several events in the past few years have dramatically shown how the interests of European citizens are directly affected by the stability, security and prosperity of their neighbouring regions.

Nach der Gründung der Volksrepublik China sollte das ganze Land aus einem "rückständigen Agrarland" in ein fortschrittliches, industrialisiertes Neues China verwandelt werden.

The National Mall in Washington, D.

Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks.

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

Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind.

Athens is a well-known destination for those interested in discovering the birthplace of Western civilization.

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries but also in surrounding peri-urban areas.

2020 was a year unlike any other in U.

This book is designed to educate vulnerable communities, emergency practitioners, and disaster researchers to increase the social and physical capacity of communities to mitigate and adapt to disaster impacts.

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

This book analyses international Green Infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies.

This is a clear guide to heritage legislation in the UK.

Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840.

Mit "e;Porositat"e; benannten Walter Benjamin und Asja Lacis einst Neapels Eigenschaften: Raume gehen ineinander uber, bieten Spielraume fur Unvorhergesehenes, Improvisation ist Alltag.

All cities face a pressing challenge - how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability?

This textbook provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of retailing as a) and industry, b) a force shaping social attitudes and contemporary culture, and c) a force for change in modern townscapes.

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis.

Achieving Sustainable Urban Form represents a major advance in the sustainable development debate.

The idea of community development grew, in large part, out of the activities of colonial administrators.

When densely populated urban areas face severe crises-natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration-they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems.

This book presents a selection of readings to present varied opinions, approaches and reports from various international professional journals.

I am a disciple of Patrick Geddes, and I am an abject admirer of everything he has said and done.

This book explores how lessons from past urban planning experiences can inform current debates on urban agriculture.

For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future.

Most of us have heard of green belts - but how much do we really know about them?

In economic development, theory and practice exist as two seemingly separate realities.

This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting public debate that these problems are attracting.

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This book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable use of land resources and creating a better environment.

The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities.

Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems covers the basic theoretical principles of community planning and how planning has evolved in the United States.

This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition.