Urban and municipal planning and policy

This book investigates the development of multi-unit housing typologies that were predominant in a particular city from the 1800s to present day.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process.

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.

Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition?

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition?

Winner of the 2021 ARCC Book AwardComplex Housing introduces an architectural type called complex housing, common to the Netherlands and found in other Northern European countries.

Winner of the 2021 ARCC Book AwardComplex Housing introduces an architectural type called complex housing, common to the Netherlands and found in other Northern European countries.

Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related.

Many of the challenges that decision-makers grapple with in relation to climate change are governance related.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety.

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety.

A classic textbook that has guided generations of students through the intricacies of property valuation, The Income Approach to Property Valuation remains a keen favourite amongst students and teachers alike.

Encounters in Planning Thought builds on the intellectual legacy of spatial planning through essays by leading scholars from around the world, including John Friedmann, Peter Marcuse, Patsy Healey, Andreas Faludi, Judith Innes, Rachelle Alterman and many more.

Encounters in Planning Thought builds on the intellectual legacy of spatial planning through essays by leading scholars from around the world, including John Friedmann, Peter Marcuse, Patsy Healey, Andreas Faludi, Judith Innes, Rachelle Alterman and many more.

This book illustrates how cities possess unique normative identities, referred to as 'ethoses', and how the residents shape and perceive them.

As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure-the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning- has become pressing.

As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure-the contemporary alignment of the disciplines of landscape architecture, civil engineering, and urban planning- has become pressing.

In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment.

In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

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

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

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress.

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities.

Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) is an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project.

Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) is an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project.

Africa is one of the most dynamic continents.

Africa is one of the most dynamic continents.

This book offers state-of-the-art 'tools for thinking' for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.

This book offers state-of-the-art 'tools for thinking' for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.

Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped.

Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites is the first book to analyze a profound land use change happening all over the world: the search for sustainable futures for property formerly dedicated to national defense now becoming redundant, disposed of and redeveloped.

Recent years have seen a globalization of property rights as the Western conception of property over land has extended across the world.

Recent years have seen a globalization of property rights as the Western conception of property over land has extended across the world.

The governance and evaluation of 'megaprojects' - that is, large-scale, complex, high-stakes infrastructure projects usually commissioned by governments and delivered through partnerships between public and private organisations - is receiving increased attention.