Urban and municipal planning and policy

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

This thesis provides a novel methodological basis for mechanistically understanding the dynamics of chemicals in products (CiPs) in the anthroposphere and physical environment and establishes a modeling continuum from production of a chemical to its concentrations in various environmental compartments.

Economic corridorsambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertakingare dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization.

Regions and cities are on the front lines of many challenges faced by OECD countries today, from education and jobs to health care and quality of life.

Imagine living in a city where people could move freely and buildings could be replaced at minimal cost.

Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world.

Originally published in 2019, this book provides a comprehensive account of a formative historical period, uniquely describing Renaissance architecture as the physical manifestation of political and economic change.

Originally published in 1974 this book examines the problems confronting the London public transport system in the 1970s.

Das Frankfurter Allerheiligenviertel hat eine wechselvolle Vergangenheit hinter sich, nun steht es am Anfang einer neuen Epoche.

Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design.

This unique book brings together high-quality research contributions on ecological aspects of urbanization, water quality concerns in an urban environment, and climate change issues with a strong Indian focus under one umbrella.

Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played?

Postmodern architecture - with its return to ornamentality, historical quotation, and low-culture kitsch - has long been seen as a critical and popular anodyne to the worst aspects of modernist architecture: glass boxes built in urban locales as so many interchangeable, generic anti-architectural cubes and slabs.

Urban planning as a discipline is deeply integral to implementing a low-carbon future.

Coastal zones are critical multiple-use resources, under pressure from constant demands from different sources - conservation, economic growth and social welfare.

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised.

The affluence of western society has given rise to unprecedented quantities of waste, presenting one of the most intractable environmental problems for contemporary society.

Singapore's journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking strategies and political will, as well as a relentless urge to improve, can result in strong foundations for sustainable development.

Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world.

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.

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world.

As a formative exemplar of early architectural modernism, Bruno Taut's seminal exhibition pavilion the Glashaus (literally translated Glasshouse) is logically part of the important debate of rethinking the origins of modernism.

The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of capital cities worldwide - in 1900 there were only about forty, but by 2000 there were more than two hundred.

Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector.

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.

How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.

Real Estate: The Basics provides an easy-to-read introduction to the core concepts of the industry to students new to the subject or professionals changing direction within the sector.

This book evaluates the effectiveness of the Green Belt planning policy in England.

Why do authorities in post-colonial African states continue to employ European or Western planning models?

Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives.

This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental history, capturing how the most ordinary yet enduring natural forces have shaped the form of cities and the thoughts of individuals.

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged.

Mexico City is the second largest city on the American continent, the most populous Spanish-speaking city in the world and the richest city, in terms of GFP, in Latin America.

Originally published in 1995 this book provides an authoritative and stimulating account of the issues and problems facing transport planners in the 21st century.

Originally published in 1985.

Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China.

Young People and Housing brings together new research exploring the economic, social, and cultural challenges that face young people in search of permanent housing.

Originally published in 1961, is the report into an investigation of the forms of organization used by local authorities of many varied types, populations and areas for the design and erection of new buildings and the maintenance of existing ones.

This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban.

This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.

Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual.

China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980.