Urban and municipal planning and policy

Everyday streets are both the most used and most undervalued of cities' public spaces.

Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes.

The green belt has been one of the UK's most consistent and successful planning policies.

The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions.

London's Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape.

Environmental changes have significant impacts on people's lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements.

The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic.

Italy and the UK experienced a radical re-organisation of urban space following the devastation of many towns and cities in the Second World War.

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century?

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.

Co-designing Infrastructures tells the story of a research programme designed to bring the power of engineering and technology into the hands of grassroots community groups, to create bottom-up solutions to global crises.

A study of the conditions of being a citizen, belonging and democracy in suburban Britain, this book focuses on understanding how a community takes on the social responsibility and pressures of being a good citizen through what they call 'stupid' events, festivals and parades.

Co-curating the City explores the role of universities in the construction and mobilisation of heritage discourses in urban development and regeneration processes, with a focus on six case study sites: University of Gothenburg (Sweden), UCL East (London), University of Lund (Sweden).

Cities have been sites of some of the most visible manifestations of the evolution of processes of globalization and population expansion, and global cities are at the cutting edge of such changes.

Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena.

In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36.

The Book deals with the key issues evolved in India During the last five decades pertaining to Human Resource Development, its ethical and spiritual dimensions, its management in the era of liberalisation, its training, HRD for workers, Indian education policy, Evaluation of HRD, counseling and monitoring, implementation and other related issues.

Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased.

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl.

The essays commissioned for this book analyze the impact of city living on health, focusing primarily on conditions in the United States.

In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation.

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Following the dissolution of the Soviet bloc, Cuba found itself struggling to find its place in a new geopolitical context, while dealing with an unprecedented agricultural and food crisis that experts feel foreshadows the future of many countries across the globe.

"e;Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi"e; —Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York.

The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.

In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation.

The Book deals with the key issues evolved in India During the last five decades pertaining to Human Resource Development, its ethical and spiritual dimensions, its management in the era of liberalisation, its training, HRD for workers, Indian education policy, Evaluation of HRD, counseling and monitoring, implementation and other related issues.

The United Nations Brundtland Report defines sustainable development as one "e;that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Taming the Megalopolis: A Design for Urban Growth discusses several issues in urban policy.

Everyone is a transport user, and most of us live in towns or cities, but how much of what we take for granted about transport is true?

The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling.

Ian Nairn taught a generation to look, and another to write.

What makes up a capital city?

Think tanks are often thought of as a uniquely US phenomenon.

Everyone is a transport user, and most of us live in towns or cities, but how much of what we take for granted about transport is true?

To address the major urban challenges, UNECE and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) developed, jointly with 15 other UN bodies and other partners, the Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities.

More than a dozen years ago, Ted Bernard traveled to nine communities across the United States to meet residents who were working collaboratively to solve natural resource conflicts.

Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda), and to support ASEAN Member States to implement the two agendas in an integrated way.

The Arab-Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory.

Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods.