Urban and municipal planning and policy

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale.

First published in 1981, Ethnic Segregation in Cities argues that race and ethnicity are fundamental to writing about the city, and that economic patterns adapt themselves to race and ethnicity rather than vice versa.

The diverse contributions in this book discuss both the classical and the more recent forms of migration.

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Transportation offers a current and comprehensive survey of transportation planning and engineering research.

This book is for students and researchers across the social sciences who are planning, conducting and disseminating research on sustainability-related issues.

Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border in Dearborn, but also was the first industrialist to make the automobile a mass consumer item.

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities.

By combining focus groups and interviews with innovative research techniques, such as web-based discussions and Q methodology, this book provides insights into the daily experiences of those using the British transport system.

Hall argues that 'London was the chief manufacturing centre of the country in 1861, and without doubt for centuries before that'.

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning.

Planning evaluation is required to establish the success of planning interventions - both of physical developments and new approaches.

When Philadelphia's iconoclastic city planner Edmund N.

This is a key text on the very topical themes of power, defence and space.

This book provides a wide-ranging review of urban problems and constitutes a major contribution to the mounting public debate that these problems are attracting.

The debate on the competitiveness of local and regional clusters in the current globalized markets is a priority as globalization puts pressure on such production systems and forces them to find new ways of competition and sustainability.

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture.

In an effort to explain why housing remains among the United States' most enduring social problems, Housing America explores five of the U.

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities-developed and developing, large and small-and their urban development.

Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit.

This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world's development-induced displacement currently takes place.

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

The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location.

Uneven distribution of life is a dominant feature of the city.

In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance.

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Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world.

In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before.

Reflective Planning Practice: Theory, Cases, and Methods uses structured, first-person reflection to reveal the artistry of planning practice.

This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play?

Architecture for a Free Subjectivity reformulates the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's model of subjectivity for architecture, by surveying the prolific effects of architectural encounter, and the spaces that figure in them.

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This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally.

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations.

An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice.

Energy security, rising energy prices (oil, gas, electricity), 'peak oil', environmental pollution, nuclear energy, climate change and sustainable living are hot topics across the globe.

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of women and the neoliberal urban.

Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

Bringing together comparative case studies from Central Europe and South America, this book focuses on 'new' regions - regions created as political projects of modernization and 're-scaling'.

Adults don't talk about the business of doing our business.

This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light.

This book provides a critical overview of rural change over the eighty years since the outbreak of the Great War, making clear the historical origins of present-day policy.

Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods.