Urban and municipal planning and policy

Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism.

Originally published in 1994, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom, adopts a perspective that encompasses the distinctive nature of the legal framework, land law, property market and procedures of Scotland, England and Wales.

This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration.

This book pioneered the concept of townscape.

Streets are places that stimulate activities, interactions, behaviours and, by extension, controls.

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

A world more urban.

The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of the world has one major urban corollary: it caused the proliferation of unplanned parts of the cities that are identified by a plethora of terminologies such as bidonville, favela, ghetto, informal settlements, and shantytown.

Looking at the lessons we can learn from international research in urban and regional planning, this book explores the challenges in using cross-country studies.

This book explores various characteristics of tropical African cities, with special reference to change in the post-independence period.

Development Control"e; is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects.

In the age of climate change, psychology and design have been employed through impromptu collaborations to validate solutions and future scenarios.

ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes.

John Rex is well known as one of Britain's leading sociologists and for his special interest in the sociology of race relations and the sociology of the city.

Societal notions of fathers have evolved from the distant breadwinner through genial dad and masculine role model to today's equal co-parent.

This book explains how to use and adapt these techniques and how to integrate these methods with more traditional qualitative research.

Originally published in 1994, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom, adopts a perspective that encompasses the distinctive nature of the legal framework, land law, property market and procedures of Scotland, England and Wales.

Mining is fundamental to our lives - we wear and travel in; build, cook and communicate with its products daily.

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

Originally published in 1979, this book was the first to provide a comprehensive political-economic analysis of the historical origins and 20th Century experience of state housing in the UK.

This book of specially commissioned essays by distinguished housing scholars addresses the big issues in contemporary debates about housing and housing policy in the UK.

This book provides an overview and assessment of infrastructure's legal and governance underpinnings.

Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage.

Different people handle risk in different ways.

How does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities?

This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing 'bottom up' community initiatives successfully.

A taboo-shattering book, How Local Resilience Creates Sustainable Societies sets out how visionary national and local leaders can transform unsustainable societies as they attempt to recover from an age of austerity.

Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States.

What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe?

House prices and mortgage debt have moved to centre stage in the management of national economies, regional development and neighbourhood change.

Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living.

This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective disaster mitigation and the alleviation of suffering in times of crisis.

Since the industrial revolution, innovations in transportation technology have continued to re-shape the spatial organization and temporal occupation of the built environment.

Spatial planning is about dealing with our 'everyday' environment.

Place-Keeping presents the latest research and practice on place-keeping - that is, the long-term management of public and private open spaces - from around Europe and the rest of the world.

Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide.

This book assesses the value of flagship developments and draws out lessons for best policy and practice.

This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils.

This beautifully illustrated guide celebrates some of the most significant award winning public spaces in major cities in the UK and Ireland over the last ten years.

This volume of three books presents recent advances in modelling, planning and evaluating city logistics for sustainable and liveable cities based on the application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems).

This book enhances the reader's understanding of the theoretical foundations, sociotechnical assemblage, and governance mechanisms of sustainable smart city transitions.

Originally published in 1966 and written at a time when UK housing policy was undergoing major changes, this volume provides a substantial historical introduction which outlines the development of housing policy in the UK from the mid 19th - mid 20th Centuries.

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery.

Designers are often depicted as social change agents that serve the good in the world.

Environmental planning forms the basis of all site development decisions and deals with the factors that must be considered before a site plan can be drawn up.

As cities around the globe respond to rapid technological changes and political pressures, coordinated transport and land use planning is an often targeted aim.

This book delves into the concept of city-sea interface as a space of strong physical, ecological, social and functional connection between the edge of the city and the edge of the water, recalling the idea of an urban amphibious, in relation to its flexibility to community, environmental and management issue that prevent the sustainable development of urban coasts.