Urban and municipal planning and policy

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to what accessibility is and is not.

This step-by-step guide takes the reader through each stage of the design process, from concept to completion, exploring practical methods of how to engage the community throughout interior architecture and design projects.

This Element examines why we should care how cities matter, and what difference does it make to our daily lives.

Most African cities are human settlements that lack the systems needed for effective land use planning.

This book highlights various designs for urban green spaces and their functions.

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.

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc.

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye - crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few.

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.

Planning for Greying Cities: Age-Friendly City Planning and Design Research and Practice highlights how modern town planning and design act as a positive force for population ageing, taking on these challenges from a user-oriented perspective.

Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines 'comfort' in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.

Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators.

Infrastructure is vital to a resilient society and infrastructure investment is therefore critical to the vibrant functioning of societies.

This book takes a practical approach to understanding and describing collaborative governance for resolving environmental problems.

This book was first published in 1980.

Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story.

Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.

Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story.

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Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world.

Housing market renewal is one of the most controversial urban policy programmes of recent years.

Originally published in 1981, French Cities in the Nineteenth Century analyses large-scale processes of social change, and looks at how this affected the growth of towns and cities of nineteenth century France.

Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes.

While contemporary human geography has widely acknowledged that knowledge has both contingent and contextual character, international literature has tended to blot out differences and reproduce hegemonic Anglo-Saxon discourses.

Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline.

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.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

Powerless under the country's constitution, Canadian municipal governments often find themselves in conflict with their provincial masters.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination.

Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood.

The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved.

Drawing on almost a decade of first-hand experience, Principles of Digital Democracy presents a unique look at digital democracy tools in action.

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals.

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together.

A collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others.

First Published in 2004.

This textbook on urban ecosystems answers important questions about the ecological structure, functions and socio-ecological development of cities worldwide.

Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda.

In context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices.

This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing 'bottom up' community initiatives successfully.

When the rivers run dry--water solutions for a thirsty planet.

In hot dry or warm humid climates, more than half of the urban peak load of energy consumption is used to satisfy air-conditioning demands alone.

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements.

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities.

This book discusses a crucial paradigm shift in urban planning and architectural design, addressing the urgent need for sustainability  and adaptation in the face of rapidly changing climate and urban landscapes.