Urban and municipal planning and policy

How do institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice?

Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States.

Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States.

Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically-grounded comparative study to examine the redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters.

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities.

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of autonomous urban mobility, examining its transformative potential and the principles guiding its innovation.

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire.

The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "e;progress.

Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape.

As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste.

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States.

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.

Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.

Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II.

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II.

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.

In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains.

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.

Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940.

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning.

What do economists know about land-and how they know?

The resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy are either barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation balloon daily.

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world.

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world.

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities.

Dynamic Thinking: A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory introduces the reader to a new approach to understanding cognitive and neural dynamics using the concepts of Dynamic Field Theory (DFT).

Dynamic Thinking: A Primer on Dynamic Field Theory introduces the reader to a new approach to understanding cognitive and neural dynamics using the concepts of Dynamic Field Theory (DFT).

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire.

The idea that some day robots may have emotions has captured the imagination of many and has been dramatized by robots and androids in such famous movies as 2001 Space Odyssey's HAL or Star Trek's Data.

The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "e;progress.

Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay.

Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape.

Among American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all.

Among American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all.

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city.

New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex in the nation, perhaps in the world.

During the past decade, high-performance computer graphics have found application in an exciting and expanding range of new domains.

As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design.

Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighborhood design?

As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste.

What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas?

This book unifies housing policy by integrating industrialized and developing-country interventions in the housing sector into a comprehensive global framework.

Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people?

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Industry 4.