Urban and municipal planning and policy

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.

This proceedings volume brings together some 189 peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Information Technology and Computer Application Engineering, held 27-28 August 2013, in Hong Kong, China.

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.

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

This book explores everyday walking in contemporary urban life.

This book explores everyday walking in contemporary urban life.

This book investigates the design, operation and use of contemporary transportable buildings, and explores how functional performance can be assessed in small-scale examples for public use alongside their relationship to other design elements.

This book investigates the design, operation and use of contemporary transportable buildings, and explores how functional performance can be assessed in small-scale examples for public use alongside their relationship to other design elements.

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have given rise mainly to new kinds of specialists in the areas of programming, evaluation, and participation.

First published in 1992, this book is about making connections that may lead towards a new professionalism, since the past several decades have given rise mainly to new kinds of specialists in the areas of programming, evaluation, and participation.

First published in 1987, the seven chapters that comprise this book review contemporary work on the geometric side of robotics.

First published in 1987, the seven chapters that comprise this book review contemporary work on the geometric side of robotics.

Management and the Sustainability Paradox is about how humans became disconnected from their ecological environment throughout evolutionary history.