Urban and municipal planning and policy

This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims to provide ways to improve the resilience of cities using a global perspective, especially in a post-pandemic era.

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades.

This book presents a case study of one of Latin America's most important and symbolic spaces, the Zocalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment.

The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional levelFully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to the why, the what, and most importantly, the how of creating resilient, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places.

When Lyon's population experienced significant growth in the eighteenth century, architect Jean-Antoine Morand made a radical proposal: France's second city would expand across the river Rhone, making him rich in the process.

Violence and insecurity are among the most important issues facing communities in the 21st century.

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us all.

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW).

As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint-and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.

Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating.

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity.

Architectural Exaptation: When Function Follows Form focuses on the significance and the originality of the study of exaptation.

Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.

Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas.

City-making is an art, not a formula.

The first edition was extremely well received, providing an introduction and insight to this important topic in a comprehensive yet easy to read form.

Originally published in 1990, The Isolated City State asks the questions, why have the world's major cities experienced explosive growth?

Originally published in 1912, this book with extensive source footnotes and bibliography follows the evolution and development of roads, rivers, canals, tramways, buses and cycles.

Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate.

Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc.

England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims.

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

Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design.

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.

Worldwide, more and more people are living in cities, with suburbs conceived as appendages to the city, rather than being part of the city system, which is densely populated and offers a full range of services.

Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners.

In Freedomland, Annemarie H.

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas.

Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma explores how the phenomenon of ethnic violence can be understood as a form of security dilemma by shifting the focus of the concept away from its traditional concern with state sovereignty to that of identity instead.

Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other.

Throughout history human beings have formed communities spontaneously with residences constructed haphazardly.

Finding specific advice on inclusive processes for engaging a community in a planning or design process can be a daunting undertaking.

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.

This edited collection provides an invaluable resource of seventeen chapters from a wide range of academic disciplines.

Kazakhstan is emerging as the most dynamic economic and political actor in Central Asia.

A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom.

Slums and Redevelopment (1992) moves between national policy formation and detailed local studies, particularly of London, studies involving landlords and property, tenants and rehousing, and the implementation of programmes.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age.

Visual pollution is an emerging, multi-dimensional, subjective, and under studied area of manmade environments that has recently received researchers' focus.

Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries.

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

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

The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy.

Compiled by two internationally renowned experts, and with over 600 wide-ranging and informative entries, The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism provides the reader with an invaluable reference aid to all areas of the religion.

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain.

Urban design is a process of establishing a structural order within human settlements; responding to dynamic emergent meanings and functions in a constant state of flux.