Urban and municipal planning and policy

Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.

Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.

Presents a modern and interdisciplinary perspective on cities that combines new data with tools from statistical physics and urban economics.

Presents a modern and interdisciplinary perspective on cities that combines new data with tools from statistical physics and urban economics.

Learn how Single-Task Construction Robots (STCRs) can improve productivity in the construction industry with this application-oriented volume.

Learn how Single-Task Construction Robots (STCRs) can improve productivity in the construction industry with this application-oriented volume.

This book argues that understanding global urbanism in the twenty-first century requires us to cast our gaze upon vast city-regions without an urban core.

This book argues that understanding global urbanism in the twenty-first century requires us to cast our gaze upon vast city-regions without an urban core.

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing''s impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges.

This interdisciplinary volume illuminates housing''s impact on both wealth and community, and examines legal and policy responses to current challenges.

This book presents the most recent and advanced techniques for creating autonomous AI systems capable of planning and acting effectively.

This book presents the most recent and advanced techniques for creating autonomous AI systems capable of planning and acting effectively.

This book provides a complete and comprehensive reference for agricultural mobile robots, covering all aspects of the design process, from sensing and perceiving to planning and acting for practical farming applications.

From experts in engineering and biology, this is the first book to integrate sensor and actuator technology with bioinspired design.

From experts in engineering and biology, this is the first book to integrate sensor and actuator technology with bioinspired design.

This book assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.

This book assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.

Kim details a brief history of urban renewal in central Seoul through articulating urban planning paradigm shifts.

This book offers a transnational history of Pakistan''s development in the 1950s and 1960s, and the creation of the capital city Islamabad.

This book offers a transnational history of Pakistan''s development in the 1950s and 1960s, and the creation of the capital city Islamabad.

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry.

The Cambridge Handbooks on Construction Robotics series focuses on the implementation of automation and robot technology to renew the construction industry.

First published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on 'Future Visions of Urban Public Housing' held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

First published in 1994, this book brings together the papers presented at the International Forum on 'Future Visions of Urban Public Housing' held on November 17-20, 1994 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time.

Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time.

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control.

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control.

China's unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a territorial hierarchy that produces lingering urban-rural duality.

China's unprecedented urbanization is underpinned by not only massive rural-urban migration but also a household registration system embedded in a territorial hierarchy that produces lingering urban-rural duality.

The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth's bio-capacity to supply humanity's needs, meaning that people are living off earth's capital rather than its income.

The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth's bio-capacity to supply humanity's needs, meaning that people are living off earth's capital rather than its income.

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context.

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context.

Portland is a young city founded on a river bank in a virgin forest less than 200 years ago.

Portland is a young city founded on a river bank in a virgin forest less than 200 years ago.

Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability.

Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability.

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city?

Have you ever wondered what lies beneath the streets of your city?

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals.

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights.

Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments shines a quintessentially Australian light on the links between land use planning and human health.

Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city.

Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world.

Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments shines a quintessentially Australian light on the links between land use planning and human health.