Urban and municipal planning and policy

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.

Public Space: notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential journeys a vast territory and presents a panoramic view of public space-an understanding from numerous disciplines-under one cover in an incisive and concise manner.

Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and demonstrates how to overcome them.

This book presents a selection of readings to present varied opinions, approaches and reports from various international professional journals.

In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning.

Internet and World Wide Web platforms, big data analytics, software, social media and civic technologies allow for the creation of smart ecosystems in which connected intelligence emerges and disruptive social and eco-innovation flourishes.

In a world defined by ever-deepening crises-climate, social, economic, and political-urban spaces emerge as both battlegrounds of injustice and the arenas of possibility.

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century.

The book provides a complete vision about Spanish sustainable renovation of buildings situation at this moment, analysing legal and technological context and opportunities that economic stimulus -by means of direct aids- and the use of BIM methodologies offers a standardization of high scale interventions.

Grounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment.

Urban India stands at an interesting moment in history-at the cusp of massive changes and cautious choices.

Originally published in 1979.

City schools, especially those attended by working class and ethnic minority pupils are teh catalysts of many significant issues in educational debate and policy making.

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials.

Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape brings together various disciplinary perspectives and diverse theories on art's dialectical and evolving relationship with urban regeneration processes.

Dilemmas of Sustainable Urban Development offers valuable insights into a difficult line of work whose practice inevitably requires a confrontation with fundamental conflicts between divergent goals, and therefore also demands difficult choices and compromises.

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts.

Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades.

The management of common pool resources and publicly-owned areas is fraught with difficulty.

This book investigates the political implications of country promotion through practices of 'nation-branding' by drawing on contemporary examples from the sports, urban development and higher education sector in Kazakhstan and Qatar.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice.

Our understanding of hazards and disasters is rapidly changing, and it is unclear as to whether our existing management systems are adequate to adapt to current and future disasters.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

By combining focus groups and interviews with innovative research techniques, such as web-based discussions and Q methodology, this book provides insights into the daily experiences of those using the British transport system.

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.

Nurturing Mobilities employs new empirical material and an innovative theoretical framing to bring new clarity to why families travel today - and what happens when they do.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1970 and 1998, draw together research by leading academics in the area of urban planning, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues.

Taming the Megalopolis: A Design for Urban Growth is a stimulating and provocative text that identifies the imminent problems of human settlement in large emerging cities in developing countries with mixed economies and their possible solution.

Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles.

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning.

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.

Whilst there is extensive literature analysing the design and function of new buildings and places, the actual process through which development proposals are actually fashioned - through complex negotiation and deal making, involving many different stakeholders with different agendas - is largely undocumented.

Originally published in 1982 and contributed to by a range of international authors and experts in the field of transport accessibility, this volume discusses the position of urban and rural transport problems of the elderly and disabled in the UK, USA, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Sweden.

Open Architecture for the People explores Japanese architecture and the three different phases of development between the years 1950 and 2018.

The definitive guide to urban planning and design--completely updated and now in full colorIn the Third Edition of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't, award-winning city planner and renowned urban scholar Alexander Garvin examines more than 350 programs and projects that have been implemented nationwide in 150 cities and suburbs, evaluates their successes and failures, and offers relevant lessons learned from them.

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place?

Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities.

This book provides recently developed and tested methods for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of planning and policy options.

This book, part of a series of four, offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities.

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored.

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

A classic work advocating ecological urban planning-from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.