Urban and municipal planning and policy

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.

Following on from Introducing Town Planning andImplementing Town Planning, this third volume in the series examines the scope and nature of modern town planning in greater depth.

This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology possession.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

This Handbook examines the regulatory, social, financial, and technological issues pertaining to energy communities in smart cities.

The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies.

How do we re-theorize tourism?

HOW DO WE KEEP AMERICA GREAT?

Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades.

This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city.

Bringing together conceptual and empirical research from leading thinkers, this book critically examines 'comfort' in everyday life in an era of continually occurring social, political and environmental changes.

It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods and concepts of these disciplines.

This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohemian suburb or the "e;boburb.

Originally published in 1978 Urbanization and Labour Markets is a useful companion for those studying in geography, economics or development studies.

This lab manual is a companion to the third edition of the textbook Computational Methods and GIS Applications in Social Science.

The first history of the bulldozer and its transformation from military weapon to essential tool for creating the post–World War II American landscape Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction.

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live, work and play, while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit.

In context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices.

With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West.

This book fills a void in the literature around how urban agricultural education can be used to create opportunities to educate youth and citizens who live in urban areas about growing food.

Households in the UK each generate around one tonne of waste per year, and the successful management and disposal of this waste is becoming an increasingly important issue.

Originally published in 1977.

The nation's capital is in a fiscal and political crisis.

This new edition of Reporting for Buyers provides guidance for the surveyor on setting out the findings of the inspection in a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal way.

This book introduces the usage, functionality, and application of data in geographic information systems (GIS) for geo-spatial analysis.

Architecture must adapt to protect people from the threat of climate change.

This textbook provides an up-to-date, comprehensive and fully integrated treatment of retailing as a) and industry, b) a force shaping social attitudes and contemporary culture, and c) a force for change in modern townscapes.

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye - crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and air quality to name just a few.

Als 1948 die Trümmerlandschaften des Krieges den Traumlandschaften von der kommunistischen Zukunftsgesellschaft wichen, realisierte die Moskauer Führung mit den "Stalinschen Großbauten des Kommunismus" ein ehrgeiziges Erschließungsprogramm.

This book takes readers on a captivating journey into the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI of Things (AIoT) technologies in reshaping sustainable urban development.

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis.

This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation.

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects.

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation.

This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents.

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future.

A unique comparative study based on funded research, of eleven city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last 30 years.

Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies: An Architecture Perspective explores heat mitigation strategies integrated into the urban architecture of global cities, aiming to enhance citizens' quality of life through thoughtful design decisions blending architecture, science and engineering.

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space.

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

In the panorama of studies related to the ability of lands to support both natural processes and agricultural production activities, this research introduces a still unexplored or under-studied theme which is that of the relationship between urban sprawl in its various forms and land quality.

Contemporary architecture, and the culture it reflects dependent as it is on fossil fuels, has contributed to the cause and necessity of a burgeoning green process that emerged over the past half century.

Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development.

Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in dealing with international displacement and forced migration and the influence of forced migration in stimulating spatial, societal, and institutional transformations in and of cities.