Urban and municipal planning and policy

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awaited sequel to "e;Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities"e;.

Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are unequally confronted with social, economic and environmental challenges, particularly those related with population growth, urban sprawl, and informality.

Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of the bunker, throw open the gates, and meet the neighborhood.

Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy.

Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, sexual difference and subjectivity.

This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.

This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially.

The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit.

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.

While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point.

It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded.

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.

The high street is in crisis.

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space.

Real Estate and GIS focuses on the application of geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping technologies in the expanding property and real estate discipline.

First published in 1978, the objective of this book is to provide an authoritative and selective overview of current, user-orientated programming methods within the field of environmental design.

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

First published in 1987, this book provides a wide-ranging account of how modern cities have come to look as they do - differing radically from their predecessors in their scale, style, details and meanings.

Earth s fractured geology is visible in its fault lines.

The housing crisis confronts two of North America's contemporary urban challenges: affordability and the need to curtail urban sprawl through densification of existing communities.

In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J.

Transforming Cities examines the profound changes that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the twentieth century.

The Policy Guide on Legal Frameworks for the Social and Solidarity Economy aims to support countries, regions and cities wishing to use legal frameworks as an appropriate lever to develop conducive social and solidarity economy (SSE) ecosystems.

Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world.

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.

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

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

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.

Cities in developing countries are faced with housing challenges that differ from country to country.

Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look at how the crises that imperil modern America are the inevitable result of bigness grown out of control-and what can be done about it.

This book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system.

Transport, in particular the motor vehicle, is a major source of environmental disruption and, in the developed world, accounts for thirty percent of energy consumption.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place?

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters.

Science parks are becoming established in increasing numbers in almost all parts of the world.

This third edition of the standard text Countryside Conservation charts and evaluates those changes which represent a fundamental revolution in the ways in which the countryside is planned and managed.

Greenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds between the conflicting interests of developers and communities.

People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives.

The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism.

50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization.

The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications.

Think tanks are often thought of as a uniquely US phenomenon.

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries.

With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century.

Based on historical case studies in Chicago, John J.

This book introduces an indispensable tool: the carbon footprint calculator for urban planning.