Urban and municipal planning and policy

During the last decade, developments in smart cars, mobile devices, internet of things and vehicular communications are revolutionizing the future of smart cities.

First published in 1935, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake, giving a background to the earthquake zone, describing the event itself and surveying the ensuing devastation.

Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) is an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project.

This comprehensive study of land use on the suburban fringe analyzes the complex relationships that underlie land conversion in the United States.

Recent history has seen Bosnian and Herzegovinian (BiH) cities undergoing several transitions.

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs's legacy.

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When this title was first published in 1981, growing concern for the future of cities and those who inhabited them, stimulated by trends in global urbanisation, had resulted in much emphasis being placed on a problem-solving approach to the study of the city.

Presenting a pragmatic mixture of science, landscape ecology, ecosystem management, sociology, policy development and methods for transforming social and institutional cultures.

All around the world, regions are facing major challenges: climate change, the transition to renewable energy, reinventing the food system, ongoing urbanisation and finding room to sustain biodiversity.

Based on the EU-funded CORASON research project, this volume brings together and compares studies into rural and sustainable development processes in 12 European countries.

This volume brings together theoretical, experiential, and creative perspectives on the phenomenon of urban foraging.

The role of local people in contemporary nature conservation practices is often poorly understood or neglected.

Powerless under the country's constitution, Canadian municipal governments often find themselves in conflict with their provincial masters.

In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development has gained increasing recognition from national and regional governments.

Going Circular explores the concept of a circular economy (CE) and its transformative potential for cities and regions.

Temporal Urban Design: Temporality, Rhythm and Place examines an alternative design approach, focusing on the temporal aesthetics of urban places and the importance of the sense of time and rhythm in the urban environment.

Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world.

This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices.

Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management.

Planning is a highly political activity.

Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story.

Planning theorists normally focus on issues of contest and critique.

Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil.

This book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene.

A series of rich case studies examine a range of topics, including neighbourhood gentrification, subway busking, yard sales, electronic waste, and language, refining the touchstone principle of circulation for the study of urban culture, both materially and theoretically.

Hybrid and mixed media create a huge variety of diagramming and drawing options for landscape representation.

The federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed in a time of turmoil, conflict, and often conflagration in cities across the nation.

Originally published in 1989, The Geography of Urban-Rural Interaction in Developing Countries addresses the nature and importance of the interaction between 'urban' and 'rural' areas within Third World national territories, providing much-needed comparative, cross-cultural, and cross-national material.

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.

Combining insights from two distinct research traditions-the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why some neighborhoods have more crime than others, and the burgeoning crime and place literature that focuses on crime in micro-geographic units-this book explores the spatial scale of crime.

This book explores incentives capable of enhancing the effectiveness of urban planning systems in Sub-Saharan Africa using economic theory as a framework.

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call "e;the progressive nonsense"e; of the Big Society agenda.

Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.

The outdoor play environment has an integral role to play in a child's learning across the pivotal early childhood years.

Cultural geography has a long and proud tradition of research into human-plant relations.

This book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being.

Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades.

As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one.

"e;Localism"e; has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods.

This book details the transformation processes that impinge on constitutionally ordained governance by drawing on the new theoretical approaches in the urban sciences.

Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance.

Governing for Resilience in Vulnerable Places provides an overview and a critical analysis of the ways in which the concept 'resilience' has been addressed in social sciences research.

The history of post Second World War reconstruction has recently become an important field of research around the world; Alternative Visions of Post-War Reconstruction is a provocative work that questions the orthodoxies of twentieth century design history.

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region.

History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate.

This unique book addresses the issue of sustainability from the point of view of landscape architecture, dealing with professional practices of planners, designers and landscape managers.