Urban and municipal planning and policy

Manhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New York's public space over the past few decades.

A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom.

We live in a time where environmental pressures, social inequities and political derision are the backdrop of everyday life, and where resilience has become a routine prescription for coping with the conditions of modern existence.

Originally published in 1990, The Isolated City State asks the questions, why have the world's major cities experienced explosive growth?

Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs.

Water data and information are essential to support efforts to understand, manage, allocate, utilize and protect water resources.

American Chinatowns: Race, Identity, and Postwar Urban Redevelopment offers a captivating exploration of the vibrant yet contested landscapes of Chinatowns across the United States.

Originally published in 1982, this book gives a concise commentary on the development and performance of car ownership prediction procedures and a wide-ranging survey of the modelling techniques associated with forecasting.

This book explores one of the most prevailing problems of the contemporary urban world, i.

First published in 1994.

Colonialization has never failed to provoke discussion and debate over its territorial, economic and political projects, and their ongoing consequences.

Unlike books that focus solely on methods, The Craft of Collaborative Planning provides a detailed guide to designing and managing all aspects of the collaborative process, advocating for making collaborative work the norm.

This book presents a select set of papers from an international and multidisciplinary approach, outlining the vanguard in the field of methodology, tools, and evaluation of the movement towards urban resilience.

The Spatiality of Violence in Post-war Cities analyses violence in post-war cities from different perspectives and in different parts of the world, with a shared attention to space and how it affects violent dynamics.

This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.

This SpringerBrief focuses on the principles of ecotourism such as relevance of the field, origin, fundamental aspects, definitions, philosophy, implications in biodiversity conservation and environmental impacts.

This book provides an analysis of urban development in Vietnam with a focus on activities carried out by ordinary people.

This edited book covers all aspects of forest deforestation and degradation in detail and their link to land degradation.

The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world.

Are you concerned about the state of current housing provision?

It is increasingly important to define what constitutes the unique character of our neighbourhoods, in order to identify what we value and should protect, to pinpoint areas for improvement and places which could be enhanced through sensitive change.

Cities across the world are facing unprecedented challenges in traffic management and transit congestion while coping with growing populations and mobility aspirations; existing policies that aim to tackle congestion and create more sustainable transport futures offer only weak remedies.

Beirut is a city divided.

This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.

When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities.

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon.

Third in the series, this book addresses the social implications of architectural and interpersonal environments for older people.

The fateful year 2020 brought dramatic challenges to American cities.

What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems?

The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places.

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management.

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress.

Bringing together a selection of readings that represent some of the most important trends and topics in urban scholarship today, American Urban Politics in a Global Age provides historical context and contemporary commentaries on the economy, politics, culture, and identity of American cities.

Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual.

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

In a world of increasing globalisation, where one high street becomes interchangeable with the next, Identity by Design addresses the idea of place-making and the concept of identity, looking at how these things can be considered as an integral part of the design process.

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces.

The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that urban planners face at a local level.

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years.

What defines a sustainable food system?

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

Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood.

The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period.

In recent decades, China has used urbanization as an economic development tool to reconstruct the country's traditional institutions, culture, and society.

This edited collection, first published in 1981, presents a discussion of the urban problems faced in the developed world, and addresses the plans and policies devised by governments to solve them.

Making Place, Making Self explores new understandings of place and place-making in late modernity, covering key themes of place and space, tourism and mobility, sexual difference and subjectivity.

In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation.

Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metabolisms in Delhi, Mumbai, Agra, Kathmandu, West Africa and London, Loose Fit City is about the ways in which city residents can learn through making to engage with the dynamic process of creating their own city.

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