Urban and municipal planning and policy

The UK housing market is in crisis.

Urban forests, trees and greenspace are critical in contemporary planning and development of the city.

Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles is a novel examination of Los Angeles-based socially engaged art (SEA) practitioners' equitable placekeeping efforts.

Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.

The Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development, recognizing that all revenues and expenditures are spatially related.

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa.

City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived today for its human scale; Green city design, whose history can be traced back thousands of years in Asia, but is becoming increasingly important everywhere as sustainability and the preservation of the planet are recognized as basic issues, and finally Systems city design, which includes infrastructure and development regulation but also includes computer aided techniques which give designers new tools for managing the complexity of cities.

This book makes a significant contribution to advancing post-geographic understandings of physical and virtual boundaries.

An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world.

This important book addresses issues of development and its environmental sustainability for the fastest growing areas in Asia - its cities.

Cities have played an important role in our lives since the dawn of civilization.

This book provides the first extensive examination and analysis of the use of the urbanscape during the disaster process, by connecting its elements throughout disaster phases: the pre-disaster phase, consisting of reduction in form of prevention and mitigation; the disaster event phase, consisting of the disaster impact followed by the disaster effects; and the post-disaster phase, consisting of the post-disaster recovery.

The CityForm consortium's latest book, Dimensions of the Sustainable City, is the first book to report on an empirical multi-disciplinary study specifically designed to address urban sustainability.

This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities.

During the 1960s, building sites in Paris became spaces that expressed preoccupations about urban transformation, labour immigration and national identity.

4D Hyperlocal: A Cultural Tool Kit for the Open-source City The evolution of digital tools is revolutionising urban design, planning and community engagement.

The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around A weak local economy can be strengthened.

Millions of urbanites never see primeval forests during their lives except for the old growth forests found in urban parks.

While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form.

Although the scientific study of marketing is relatively new, certain aspects of it have been analyzed in considerable detail.

Post-Rational Planning confronts today's threats to truth, particularly after recent news events that present alternative facts and media smear campaigns, often described as post-truth politics.

The development of post-socialist cities has become a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences and humanities.

Wahrend die Aufmerksamkeit auf den boomenden Megacities in China und der damit einhergehenden Problematik der Uberbevolkerung liegt, gerat der landliche Raum in China zunehmend in Vergessenheit.

Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children.

The concept of community development is often misunderstood, holding different meanings across different academic disciplines.

A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly.

This book examines the theoretical, historical, and practical dimensions of how a city operates internationally.

At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation.

Instead of seeking theory to justify practical professional judgments this book describes how professionals can and should use theory to guide these judgments.

The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contemporary concerns and debates.

This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices.

In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro.

Contemporary art, entertainment, and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.

The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing, by examining the concept from economic, human development, architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of view.

Originally published in 1974, this book surveys the experience of public and quasi public housing in the UK, USA, France, Germany, the former USSR, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Puerto Rico.

In Barcelona, the rate of foreign residents has quintupled since 2000, and in 2017, 23% of the population was foreign-born.

What is a livable community?

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city's climate change adaptations demands.

Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world.

Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components.

As Ruskin suggests in his Seven Lamps of Architecture: "e;We may live without [architecture], and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).