Urban and municipal planning and policy

New research in community development shows that institutions matter.

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.

Despite ongoing technical and professional advances, urban and regional planning is often far less effective than we might hope.

Comprehensive and practical, this book provides an essential resource for educators, researchers, students, and those in public agencies and consultancies who are directly responsible for managing municipal infrastructure such as roads, water, and sewer pipes.

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security.

Innovation, which in essence is the generation of knowledge and its subsequent application in the marketplace in the form of novel products and processes, has become the key concept in inquiries concerning the contemporary knowledge based economy.

'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs.

People's relationship to nature is the greatest issue facing the world at the turn of the millennium, and all over the world young people have shown enormous enthusiasm for environmental action.

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings.

In Regulation and Planning, planning scholars from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia, and the United States explore how planning regulations are negotiated amid layers of normative considerations.

Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress.

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

Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning is the definitive introduction to public consultation for developers, students and planners.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities.

Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions.

We are all familiar with the almost ritual lament about the desolation and sameness of the suburbs that surround our modern cities.

Human history has seen many settlements transformed or built entirely by expatriate work forces and foreigners arriving from various places.

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital?

Culture refers to not only the arts but also other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

This book is a much-needed account, with numerous detailed examples, of the role of housing in economic growth and development by an author in a unique position to understand its importance and the practical measures for delivering that growth.

Living with Water explores the perennial, dynamic relationship between water and the built environment in South Asia.

Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.

This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent movements toward recovery.

This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development, and local peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

As British cities lose the cultural connections with their industrial past, many seek to build new postindustrial futures through urban regeneration.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change.

One of the American Planning Association's most popular and influential books is finally in paperback, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published.

This book explores the challenges our society faces in making the transition to renewable resource use in a way that is truly sustainable - environmentally, economically and socially.

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces.

Evaluation is a critical stage in urban and regional planning and development, with the consideration of alternative proposals essential for informed debate and decision.

Are Arab Gulf cities, the likes of Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Doha, on their way to extinction?

With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high.

Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Meaning and Use of Housing presents a re-evaluation of the use and meaning of residential environments.

Originally published in 1983.

Originally published in 1987, Regenerating the Inner City looks at the changes to Glasgow's East End and how industrial closures and slum clearance projects have caused people to leave.

Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities: Selected Non-Avian Fauna is the first known account of the vertebrate and invertebrate fauna of several cities in Europe and throughout the rest of the world.

Half of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities.

There is a complex web of infrastructure behind the day-to-day operation of a Canadian city.

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) planning principles have informed Australian city planning for over two decades.

How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet?