Urban and municipal planning and policy

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America over a 20-year period.

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities.

Most of the world's population now lives in cities.

This title was first published in 2001.

Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian onlineFaced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden suburbs that already exist?

Despite roughly thirty years of experience with growth management programs, which are basically land-use planning tools, most U.

Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically associated with cities.

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain''s transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.

This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity.

The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades.

This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing role as centers of creative economic activity.

This edited book explores and promotes reflection on how the lessons of Metabolism experience can inform current debate on city making and future practice in architectural design and urban planning.

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms.

Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK.

This Element examines why we should care how cities matter, and what difference does it make to our daily lives.

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Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development.

This book examines examples of rural regeneration projects through the public administration lens, analysing how governance arrangements in rural settings work.

This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoningIn this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States.

This book offers the reader a comprehensive understanding and the multitude of methods utilized in the research of urban mobilities with cities and 'the urban' as its pivotal axis.

Inklusion in Architektur und Städtebau bedeutet mehr, als Gebäude und öffentlichen Raum mit technischen Bauteilen auszustaffieren.

This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant to the planning of the future city - what is happening to the city and what we can do about it.

Durante años, el principal objetivo de las investigaciones urbanas en España consistió en estudiar las raíces del intenso proceso urbanizador asociado a la burbuja inmobiliaria.

The only book that shows how to transform existing suburbs to create environment- and people-friendly neighborhoods.

Earth's environmental problems are far from being resolved.

This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy.

The cohousing "e;bible"e; by the US originators of the concept.

This book provides new information to understand the relationship between urban development and environmental change to the reader.

Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas.

Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings.

Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity.

This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects.

Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg.

This edited collection, first published in 1987, provides a comparative analysis of different approaches to urban modelling, and lays the foundations for the possibility of integration and a more unified field.

With more and more of the world's population projected to live in urban areas, the life and death of cities has become a key factor in urban development considerations.

Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK.

This comprehensive volume is an indispensable resource for researchers as well as general readers interested in the geography, history, and culture of London, examining all aspects of life in the United Kingdom's capital city.

Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions.

Sustainable Urbanisation in the Caribbean critically examines the socio-geographic context of island states, prioritising the nuanced experiences of Caribbean island states and territories that are largely considered small island developing states (SIDS), against the backdrop of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

"e;[The authors] argue that with more integration and cooperation between businesses, governments and communities, a more sustainable economy is possible.

Megaprojects, also referred to in the literature as Large Engineering Projects or Major Projects, are generally defined as large-scale investment initiatives worth 1b /$ or more and, facing similar problems independent of the country where they are implemented and the industry they belong to.

In recent years the concept of the resource "e;nexus"e; has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles.

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards debates on changes required in the current practice.

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

The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces.