Urban and municipal planning and policy

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our use-and our expectations-of communication, data, and sensing technologies.

A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate changeClimate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability.

Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity.

Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction.

A leading-edge guide to thinking about and planning for twenty-first-century cities in all their social, political, and ecological complexity The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs.

After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of The Very Hungry City.

This "e;fascinating, engaging"e; history of St.

This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.

Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: "e;Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.

As the twenty-first century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era.

Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaughs Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997.

The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattles architects by showcasing the work of those who were instrumental in creating the regions built environment.

Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early twentieth century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America.

Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now.

Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development.

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy living conditions.

Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book PrizeThis cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose.

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency.

On April 18, 1906, a 7.

An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South.

Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments.

How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California.

A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits of this approach to urban problems.

An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit.

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.

An exploration of the ways that everyday life in the city is defined by commuting.

An authoritative treatment of urban computing, offering an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.

Strategies for transboundary natural resource management; winner of Harvard Law School''s Raiffa Award for best research of the year in negotiation and conflict resolution.

A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today''s networked global city.

A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.

The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.

How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.

An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon''s systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.

An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.

A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.

A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities'' inflows and outflows of matter and energy.

How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.

An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.

An illustrated history of the American city''s evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.

Case studies and analyses investigate how collaborative response to crisis can enhance social-ecological resilience and promote community reinvention.

How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.

A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress.

Industry 5.

In this digital era, a smart city can become an intelligent society by using advances in emerging technologies.

This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America, Europe, and the Pacific.

This foundational text on housing tenure, housing policy, homelessness, and housing in a global context has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the United States during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.