Urban and municipal planning and policy

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy.

Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award!

A small river in a big city, the Don River is often overlooked when it comes to explaining Toronto's growth.

A handbook for the practitioners, this book is a complete treatise on the topic of Smart, covering:1.

Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem.

'Essential for any serious technical library' PROFESSOR MARTIN GREEN, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTHWALES, AUSTRALIA 'Valuable, detailed information that helps me plan for the future' DON OSBORN, FORMERLY OF SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT The Advances in Solar Energy series offers state-of-the-art information on all primary renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind and biomass, bringing together invited contributions from the foremost international experts in renewable energy.

Originally published in 1979.

Originally published in 1966 and written at a time when UK housing policy was undergoing major changes, this volume provides a substantial historical introduction which outlines the development of housing policy in the UK from the mid 19th - mid 20th Centuries.

Planning and Conflict discusses the reasons for conflicts around urban developments and analyzes their shape in contemporary cities.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

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

The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid- and high-rise modular housing that can be manufactured and distributed on a global scale.

Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty.

Energy Storage in Energy Markets reviews the modeling, design, analysis, optimization and impact of energy storage systems in energy markets in a way that is ideal for an audience of researchers and practitioners.

Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance.

Online and Hybrid Learning: Design Fundamentalscovers the basic tasks associated with the systematic design of online and hybrid learning environments.

Focusing on Cardiff, the capital city of Wales in the UK, this book reflects on a contemporary small European city - its development, characteristics, and present struggles.

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

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer.

COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the role of property investment and development in the urban regeneration process.

This edited volume brings together international authors to explore how cities around the world are implementing their commitment towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Ecosystem service mapping is a fundamental part of developing healthier cities and ensuring environmentally-oriented land use.

Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade.

This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia.

This new handbook brings together various views and experiences of the impacts of flooding and its management in Africa, Asia and Latin America by drawing from traditional and modern approaches adopted by communities, homeowners, academics, project managers, institutions and policy makers.

This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context.

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

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents.

'Essential for any serious technical library' PROFESSOR MARTIN GREEN, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTHWALES, AUSTRALIA 'Valuable, detailed information that helps me plan for the future' DON OSBORN, FORMERLY OF SACRAMENTO MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT The Advances in Solar Energy series offers state-of-the-art information on all primary renewable energy technologies, including solar, wind and biomass, bringing together invited contributions from the foremost international experts in renewable energy.

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 book presents an in-depth look at US infrastructure and its challenges in the 21st century.

Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring.

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue.

This book examines the use of big data in regenerative urban environment and how data helps in functional planning and design solutions.

GIS projects have previously been viewed primarily as technical exercises but it is now evident that the success of GIS projects depends as much upon organisational issues as upon technicalities.

More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world.

First published in 1991, this book is about applications and issues relating to the visual environment.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital?

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

Designing the City looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level.

Flood hazards and the risks they present to human health are an increasing concern across the globe, in terms of lives, well-being and livelihoods, and the public resources needed to plan for, and deal with, the health impacts.

Responding to the global and unprecedented challenge of capacity building for twenty-first century life, this book is a practical guide for tertiary education institutions to quickly and effectively renew the curriculum towards education for sustainable development.