Urban and municipal planning and policy

Suburban Sprawl combines historical, political, economic, geographic, and urban planning analysis to provide the most comprehensive overview of why and how urban sprawl occurs.

First published in 1974.

In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors.

Various kinds of informal and extra-legal settlements-commonly called shantytowns, favelas, or barrios-are the prevailing type of urban land use in much of the developing world.

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary?

The 21st century has been called the "e;century of the city.

Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe.

This book is a cornerstone resource for a wide range of organizations and individuals concerned with sustainable development at national or local levels, as well as for international organizations concerned with supporting such development.

'Sustainable' urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and ecosystems and concentrates wealth and concretize social disparities.

Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development.

Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form.

Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc.

Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awaited sequel to "e;Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities"e;.

During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes.

Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations.

Can the British plan?

Originally published in 1979, these essays provide a guide to the labyrinth of issues which together made up 'housing policy' in the late 20th Century.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.

Photovoltaics is already an economic and practical option for providing electricity in many situations such as remote housing, in hybrid systems and for some service applications.

Worldwide, urbanization is steadily increasing, yet many modern cities are becoming less and less able to accommodate the growth in their population.

The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loic Wacquant, contends that certain groups of people are devalued, discredited and tainted by the reputation of the place where they reside.

Equity in the City is a collection of nine studies of the way the results of public investment in urban services are shared out among city-dwellers.

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great 'equaliser', but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales.

This book captures ground-breaking attempts to utilise culture in territorial development and regeneration processes in the context of South Africa and our 'new normal' brought by COVID-19, the fourth industrial revolution, and climate change the world over.

Originally published in 1977.

Winner of the 2023 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award, awarded by the Urban Communication FoundationBased on the author's scholar-activist interventions to promote social justice in cities, this book highlights the role engaged communication scholarship can play in fostering a more equitable future.

This volume presents a kaleidoscopic view of the norms and forms of contemporary city life, focusing especially on the processes of social capital (de)formation in the urban milieu.

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs's legacy.

Advocates of growth management and smart growth often propose policies that raise housing prices, thereby making housing less affordable to many households trying to buy or rent homes.

The handbook presents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contemporary concerns and debates.

Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways.

This book responds to the need to rehabilitate the holistic urban environment by introducing planning approaches which focus on the Japanese idea of "e;Satoyama.

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).

Affordable and Social Housing - Policy and Practice is a candid and critical appraisal of current big-ticket issues affecting the planning, development and management of affordable and social housing in the United Kingdom.

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

This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.

Urban Density Contextualized provides planners with the tools to understand, assess, and implement urban density successfully.

This book is the latest book from the author, documents the United States' hidden crisis and shows how balanced transportation and natural resources preservation can make new urban development sustainable, as well as more efficient and more equitable.

Although urbanization steadily increases, many modern cities are finding the accommodation of their populations an increasingly difficult task.

Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable 'felt data' about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings.

Adopting an interdisciplinary social science approach, this book examines community reactions to wind farms to form a new understanding of what facilitates social acceptance.

When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsacker, Amory Lovins and L.