Urban and municipal planning and policy

In a world increasingly concerned about the impact of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on global climate, the A Carbon Primer for the Built Environment will provide an understanding of the science and the public policy and regulation intended to tackle climate change.

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality.

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions found in the human ecology perspective.

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research.

The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture.

This book brings together ecological-conservation theory and heritage-preservation theory and shows how these two realms have common purpose.

A nation's construction industry is essentially home grown, a derivative of its culture, history, geography and economic circumstances with every building or road a unique product, always a prototype, unlike the honed prototypes set up for efficient production runs of other industries.

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of business in safeguarding the environment.

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.

'Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics.

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents.

Socially Sustainable Neighbourhood Design for Children and Youth explores social sustainability in neighbourhood design, with a particular focus on providing practical design recommendations to improve the lives of children and youth.

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s.

Presenting a pragmatic mixture of science, landscape ecology, ecosystem management, sociology, policy development and methods for transforming social and institutional cultures.

This book foregrounds the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini to study the Roman periphery and examine the relevance of Pasolini's vision in the construction of subaltern identity and experience.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

This edited volume examines strategies to make future cities more sustainable.

Uneven distribution of life is a dominant feature of the city.

Re-forming Britain considers the nature and practice of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain in a new light.

This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition.

Illustrated by critical analyses of significant buildings, including examples by such eminent architects as Adler and Sullivan, Erich Mendelsohn, and Louis Kahn, this book examines collaboration in the architectural design process over a period ranging from the mid-19th century to the late 1960s.

This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers, in the information technology (IT) sector of India.

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue.

With accelerating urbanization and growing inter-dependence of rural and urban dwellers on the markets and resources they each offer, rural urban linkages have become a very important focus in recent years for research and policy relating to local and national economic development, poverty reduction and governance.

This book charts the city of Tripoli's rapid economic, environmental, and physical transformation, investigating how these new developments have failed to incorporate the cultural and historic values of the urban fabric.

Local leaders don't need to become professional facilitators or hire expensive consultants to run a great meeting.

Routledge Handbook on Labour in Construction and Human Settlements presents a detailed and comprehensive examination of the relationship between labour and the built environment, and synergises these critical focus areas in innovative ways.

A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publicationRental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States.

Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years.

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities.

This book focuses on the politics of street trees and the institutions, actors and processes that govern their planning, planting and maintenance.

This book brings together a group of distinguished international authors to analyze and comment upon the various roles of evaluation and valued ideas, in planning and education of planners.

Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?

The practice of comprehensive planning is changing dramatically in the 21st century to address the pressing need for more sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

Using the economic approach of social choice theory, this unique book examines difficulties found in democratic processes involved in the creation and implementation of planning policies.

This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution.

New Urbanism and American Planning presents the history of American planners' quest for good cities and shows how New Urbanism is a culmination of ideas that have been evolving since the nineteenth century.

What is the capacity of mapping to reveal the forces at play in shaping urban form and space?

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands.

In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson's extensive research into the development of Texas's oldest city.

The block is no more than the land and building area defined by streets.

The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe.