Urban and municipal planning and policy

Definitive analyses of transboundary water management in Latin America are conspicuous by their absence.

As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases.

As the rates of chronic diseases, like diabetes, asthma and obesity skyrocket, research is showing that the built environment - the way our cities and towns are developed - contributes to the epidemic rates of these diseases.

Remodelling to Prepare for Independence: The Philippine Commonwealth, Decolonisation, Cities and Public Works, c.

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces.

Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces.

What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls?

What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls?

This book was first published in 1980.

This book was first published in 1980.

Part of the Sociology of the City series, originally published in 1959, this volume looks at the urban community bringing together rural and urban sociology.

First published in 2006.

First published in 2006.

Part of the Sociology of the City series, originally published in 1959, this volume looks at the urban community bringing together rural and urban sociology.

This book was first published in 1977.

This book was first published in 1977.

Social Theory and the Urban Question offers a guide to, and a critical evaluation of key themes in contemporary urban social theory, as well as a re-examination of more traditional approaches in the light of recent developments and criticism.

Social Theory and the Urban Question offers a guide to, and a critical evaluation of key themes in contemporary urban social theory, as well as a re-examination of more traditional approaches in the light of recent developments and criticism.

Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed.

Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed.

This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation.

This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the English nation.

This book was first published in 1979.

This book was first published in 1979.

This unique forcast of the shape of the property market of the future includes 22 individual research contributions by leading private practice, institutional and academic research departments and by other expert commentators.

This unique forcast of the shape of the property market of the future includes 22 individual research contributions by leading private practice, institutional and academic research departments and by other expert commentators.

This book was first published in 1983.

This book was first published in 1983.

This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant to the planning of the future city - what is happening to the city and what we can do about it.

This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant to the planning of the future city - what is happening to the city and what we can do about it.

This book was first published in 1939.

This book was first published in 1939.

This book was first published in 1977.

This book was first published in 1977.

This book offers a coherant theoretical introduction to urban sociology.

This book offers a coherant theoretical introduction to urban sociology.

First published in 1986.

First published in 1986.

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this.

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this.

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.

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.

Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future.

Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central featuer of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future.

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.

This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available.

First Published in 2006.

This book was first published in 1963.

The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon.

Both the great cities studied in this book are renowned for their imposing streets and buildings, their cultural and political vitality and their cosmopolitan lifestyles, but just outside their centres are neighbourhoods where ordinairy people have their homes, often living in poverty and sometimes in squalor.