Urban and municipal planning and policy

Ensuring optimum ventilation performance is a vital part of building design.

This book gathers a representative sample of the relevant knowledge related to the ecology, behavior, and conservation of birds in urban Latin America.

It has been increasingly recognized that trees and vegetation in urban areas provide a number of ecological services beyond beautifying cities.

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 broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies.

Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization.

Access to quality services and community infrastructure are vital parts of supporting sustainable and resilient rural and small town places.

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning.

Devolution, Regionalism and Regional Development provides an overview and critical perspective on the impact of devolution on regionalism in the UK since 1999, taking a research-based look at issues central to the development of regionalism: politics, governance and planning.

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment.

Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women's safety in the context of poverty reduction and social inclusion.

In a knowledge-based economy, universities are vital institutions.

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together.

The recent availability of longitudinal data on individual trip making and activity behaviour has provided analysts with new insights into the structures and motives of daily life travel.

Although the scientific study of marketing is relatively new, certain aspects of it have been analyzed in considerable detail.

Across the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy.

In this collection of essays, Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport - a felicitation volume to celebrate the significance of Professor Amos Rapoport's lifelong scholarship - scholars from around the world discuss the analytical relevance, expansion, and continuing application of these contributions in developing an advanced understanding of mutual relationships between people and built environments across cultures.

The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning.

This book takes an interdisciplinary, institutional, and historically informed approach to the economics of transport, providing a more nuanced and complete understanding of human transport choices, individually and collectively, and the related choice of location, including the formation of cities.

Local Tax Policy: A Primer provides the definitive discussion of how local governments raise revenue.

Cities are the future.

The Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applicationsexplores the merging relationship between physical and virtual spaces in planning and urban design.

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture.

From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power but in urban school districts and classrooms.

Landscape and Agency explores how landscape, as an idea, a visual medium and a design practice, is organized, appropriated and framed in the transformation of places, from the local to the global.

Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades.

This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study.

In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment.

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition?

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city's iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots.

The scale, complexity and pace of urban change in the recent past has been disorienting.

How is it that walls, borders, boundaries and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion engender their very opposite?

This title takes the broadest possible scope to interrogate the emergence of "e;platform urbanism"e;, examining how it transforms urban infrastructure, governance, knowledge production, and everyday life, and brings together leading scholars and early-career researchers from across five continents and multiple disciplines.

'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.

New townslarge, comprehensively planned developments on newly urbanized landboast a mix of spaces that, in their ideal form, provide opportunities for all of the activities of daily life.

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities.

Air pollution has become part of the daily existence of many people who work, live and use the streets in Asian cities.

Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural ecologies.

Although contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a flexible approach to the complexities of most urban situations.

How will automated vehicles change our lives?

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining the structure, function, history, and meaning of architecture, from prehistory to the present, in ways that are both accessible and engaging.

The notion of ecology has become central to contemporary design discourse.

The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US.

From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.

'A must-read for practitioners, teachers and others interested in or working with energy use in the built environment, including a delightful set of examples' Ann Grete Hestnes, former President of the International Solar Energy Society Solar Architecture in Cool Climates is an invaluable primer on low energy building design, combining accessible information with convincing arguments enabling new techniques to be implemented in daily practice.

This book examines social innovation strategies in the collaborative development of spaces for growing food in cities.

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