Urban and municipal planning and policy

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.

Developing Property Sustainably introduces readers to the key issues surrounding sustainable property development in the global marketplace.

Developing Property Sustainably introduces readers to the key issues surrounding sustainable property development in the global marketplace.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature.

Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

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

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

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

This book adopts a cultivation technique using yellow sand substrate in the desert, making agricultural production possible.

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design?

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design?

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition.

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition.

Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change.

Urban change is often difficult because we are dealing with people's elusive notions of place and perception, time and change.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

This book examines the relationship between the property market and urban economy.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

Despite the findings on global climate change presented by the scientific community, there remains a significant gap between its recommendations and the actions of the public and policy makers.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities.

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives.

Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives.

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.

The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don't act as if we had more than one planet Earth.

The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don't act as if we had more than one planet Earth.

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums.

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums.

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

The concept of Green Exercise has now been widely adopted and implies a synergistic health benefit of being active in the presence of nature.

Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses.

Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses.

Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm.

Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm.

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning's instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes.

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and Challenges for more Equitable and Sustainable Cities critically explores planning's instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes in neoliberal planning landscapes.