Urban and municipal planning and policy

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and creating economic development strategies to build their brand, attract residents and tourists, and distinguish themselves from other urban centers worldwide.

This book presents, for the first time, data analytics for smart infrastructures.

A popular version of history trumpets the United States as a diverse "e;nation of immigrants,"e; welcome to all.

Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg.

Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development.

This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability.

The built environment is undergoing a profound transformation driven by the integration of cutting-edge geospatial technologies.

This book focuses on developing a holistic sustainability assessment model for built environment that can help in identifying sustainability issues and parameters for the built environment.

Appeals to the 'common good' or 'public interest' have long been used to justify planning as an activity.

Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

This fully revised second edition reflects the great expansion in urban ecology research, action, and teaching since 2015.

As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus.

This book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.

The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population.

With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and lifestyle changes, the traditional family - working father, stay-at-home mother, two to three children - is no longer the norm and the need for smaller homes at moderate cost has skyrocketed.

As the world becomes more urbanised, solutions are required to solve current challenges for three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, environmental sustainability and urban economic sustainability.

Each year, approximately a million tourists visit slum areas on guided tours as a part of their holiday to Asia, Africa or Latin America.

Ian McHarg and the Search for Ideal Order looks at the well-known and studied landscape architect, Ian McHarg, in a new light.

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

Bringing together a team of national experts, this volume offers a detailed look at the links between public land acquisition programs and efforts to yield smart growth outcomes in the USA.

Who decides which stories about a city are remembered?

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues.

This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy.

Originally published in 1986, The High Middle Ages begins in the late twelfth century and ends, not with the arrival of the Tudor monarchs in 1485, but with the destruction of the wealth and power of the Church in the 1530s.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change.

The rise and fall and rise of the South Bronx: "e;A thoughtful story of urbanization in a place that most Americans know only stereotypically.

Asian transportation systems and services, as well as their usage, are fraught with challenges.

Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism.

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.

Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.

This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities, and Indigenous communities.

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook has been completely revised to examine the current state of housing policy in the UK.

Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities.

This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change.

Urban sanitation and solid waste sectors are under significant pressure in East Africa due to the lack of competent institutional capacity and the growth of the region's urban population.

An introduction to the problems and practices of planning in London.

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance.

The way we plan and build cities in Australia needs to change.

Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability.

How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century.

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.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today.

Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.