Urban and municipal planning and policy

In recent decades, China has used urbanization as an economic development tool to reconstruct the country's traditional institutions, culture, and society.

This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city.

The future is urban.

A 'dwelling', or the physical space we call a house, is full of meaning for us.

How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.

All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems.

Originally published in 1978 Urbanization and Labour Markets is a useful companion for those studying in geography, economics or development studies.

Suburban sprawl has been the prevailing featureand double-edged swordof metropolitan America's growth and development since 1945.

Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life.

Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses.

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies.

Zoning is at once a key technical competency of urban planning practice and a highly politicized regulatory tool.

As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and contemporary productions - old and new manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive sectors, creative and cultural economy - and investigate their influence both on spatial patterns and urban policy agenda.

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.

Environmental psychology is an increasingly important area of research, focusing on the individual and social factors responsible for many critical human responses to the physical environment.

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact of the transportation network company (TNC) industry (Uber and Lyft) on the taxicab industry in Seattle, Washington, beginning in 2014.

This book explores the wide-ranging elements of property PR in the UK, with a strong emphasis on communications theory, strategy and technique.

Originally published in 1977.

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan.

America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centers is worsening.

This book explores the built environment through aspects of spatial planning, ecology, infrastructure, and urban identity.

In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization).

This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess some of the approaches and trends in terms of territorial development policy and practice that are emerging out of this process.

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

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices.

Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities.

Historically the urban festival served as an occasion for affirming shared convictions and identities in the life of the city.

This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities.

Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed.

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions.

Leben mit weniger Autoverkehr?

Utopia has become a dirty word in recent scholarship on modernism, architecture, urban planning and gender studies.

Some social housing was developed as a result of the 1949 National Housing Act (NHA) amendments but this program remained marginalized for many years as government policy favoured shelter provision by private entrepreneurs.

This book was first published in 1980.

2015 Speaker's Book Award - ShortlistedCity planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.

This is a comprehensive book on infrastructure development and construction management.

Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts - globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity.

Using Jane Jacobs' critique of postwar city-building as a starting point, Fowler shows that recent North American urban development has been characterized by development projects on a massive scale, an indiscriminate use of vast areas of land, and an increasingly evident homogeneity.

Cities are the future.

As potential targets such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are 'hardened' against possible terrorist attacks, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers, and energy facilities.

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire.

The location of new housing development has become one of the most intractable controversies of modern times.

Being a professional designer is one of the most intellectually rewarding careers.

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary?

Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century.

Seascape studies have developed in response to questions arising from composite correlations such as coastal, island and marine research, social requirements, landscape design and planning, marine ecology, and environment and resource management.

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.

This book shows how and why strategic planning is working in cities around the country.