Urban and municipal planning and policy

This book contains selected papers from the World Renewable Energy Congress and Network Forum's seventh edition of the biannual Med Green Forum (MGF2024) that highlight opportunities for energy transition based on the principles of efficiency, urban/building integration, and ecology.

This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth.

The hinge of this book is 15 August 1947, the day India became independent.

This far-reaching and authoritative two-volume set examines a range of potential solutions for low-energy building design, considering different strategies (energy conservation and renewable energy) and technologies (relating to the building envelope, ventilation, heat delivery, heat production, heat storage, electricity and control).

China's strong economic growth occurring alongside modernization across the great majority of Asian societies has created what many see as a transnational space through and by which not only economic, social and cultural resources, but also threats and crises flow over traditional political boundaries.

The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book.

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States.

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity.

The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.

In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern.

A presentation of detailed comparative research into the implementation in 11 European countries of Local Agenda 21 - the action plan for sustainable development at community level.

Cities in developing countries are faced with housing challenges that differ from country to country.

Large and persistent inequalities in regional economic performance within countries exist throughout the OECD.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

The only book of its kind to provide an overview of sustainable street design Today, society is moving toward a more sustainable way of life, with cities everywhere aspiring to become high-quality places to live, work, and play.

This book is collection of articles on the rapid ongoing transformations within the Asian cities in the period when Asia is rising economically.

Originally published in 1986 at a time when Britain was facing a major housing crisis, this book, containing much original research, examines the crisis and analyses the reasons for it, providing foundations for the construction of effective new policies.

In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

Of the requests for asylum in France made in 2016, more than 10 000 applications were made by people in Paris and were made in the context of a rising number of refugees and asylum seekers since 2015.

Urban Alchemy delves into the pressing challenges and unique opportunities facing developing countries in their quest for sustainable urban transformation.

This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban.

First published in 1984, this book addresses key questions about the pattern of urban development in Southern Europe and the mechanisms employed to control and regulate this development in individual countries.

At the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation.

First Published in 1994.

Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour.

The night-time economy represents a particular challenge for planners and town centre managers.

Morocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination.

This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city.

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America's twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development.

A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin.

Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighborhood design?

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality.

With a multidisciplinary perspective, Planning Power examines British and French colonial town and country planning efforts in Africa.

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book.

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map.

Jack Rose examines the social, economic and political forces which have shaped the towns and cities of the UK since the Industrial Revolution.

Reconciling wealth creation and environmental care is one of the key challenges in the pursuit of sustainable development.

How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially has become an increasingly vital profession.

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

Examining the rising interest in quality-of-life offences, anti-social behaviour and incivilities in urban public spaces, this study explores the rising importance of policing, crime control and community safety policies in the context of the ongoing urban restructuring in old-industrial cities.

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment?

The revised and updated second edition of Qualitative Analysis for Planning & Policy is a roadmap to help planners access qualitative data and integrate it into their planning investigations.

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment.