Urban and municipal planning and policy

Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term.

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

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

This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata.

Is noise the most neglected green issue of our age?

Is noise the most neglected green issue of our age?

Water data and information are essential to support efforts to understand, manage, allocate, utilize and protect water resources.

Water data and information are essential to support efforts to understand, manage, allocate, utilize and protect water resources.

This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata.

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

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

Spain is facing an increasingly difficult situation in terms of water stress.

Spain is facing an increasingly difficult situation in terms of water stress.

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday.

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, although in the railway age they began to suffer from competition from new fashions in leisure and tourism, especially the seaside holiday.

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development.

This book brings together several systems-level approaches to the consideration of the interaction of livelihood choices, natural resource management and participatory action research on sustainable development.

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms.

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms.

Examining the water, development and security linkages in Central Asia can feel a bit like solving a Rubik's cube.

Examining the water, development and security linkages in Central Asia can feel a bit like solving a Rubik's cube.

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context.

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context.

London is in a mess.

London is in a mess.

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant implications for educational policy and practices.

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant implications for educational policy and practices.

Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade.

Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade.

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively.

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively.

This book looks at the transition from New Labour's 'Spatial Planning' approach to the Coalition Government's preferred 'Localism' approach.

This book looks at the transition from New Labour's 'Spatial Planning' approach to the Coalition Government's preferred 'Localism' approach.

Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing.

Half the world's children live in cities and the proportion is growing.

Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region.

Based on analysis of the Manchester city-region, this book offers a vision of a sustainable urban future, through integrated strategic management of the entire city-region.

Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality.

Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality.

Mining is fundamental to our lives - we wear and travel in; build, cook and communicate with its products daily.

Mining is fundamental to our lives - we wear and travel in; build, cook and communicate with its products daily.

The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications.

The role of economic development in communities is multi-faceted, having an array of antecedents, impacts, and implications.

Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began.

Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began.

First published in 1978, the objective of this book is to provide an authoritative and selective overview of current, user-orientated programming methods within the field of environmental design.

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

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

First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists.

First published in 1978, the objective of this book is to provide an authoritative and selective overview of current, user-orientated programming methods within the field of environmental design.