Urban and municipal planning and policy

The UK Planning Regulations are a minefield for anyone looking to build a new home - and for those who are worried about the impact of a new planning application near their home.

THE IDEA OF A WORLD OF 10 BILLION PEOPLE, MOST OF WHOM WILL BE LIVING IN RAPIDLY EXPANDING CITIES, CAN BE A TERRIFYING PROPSECT.

Planning Support Methods offers the only practical guide to the key methods of urban and regional planning.

Long before reinventing government came into vogue, the Urban Institute pioneered methods for government and human services agencies to measure the performance of their programs.

The location of new housing development has become one of the most intractable controversies of modern times.

This book presents for the first time an interdisciplinary view of property development and property developers.

Sustainable Urban Planning introduces the principles and practices behind urban and regional planning in the context of environmental sustainability.

The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism.

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

By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030.

Learn key lessons on diversity and inclusion from front-line expert Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans.

City management in developing countries is a quickly growing area in current public administration literature.

This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa.

That America entered a profound housing crisis in 2008 is well known.

Good housing.

For America's rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions.

Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment-representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living-as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl.

The United States faces enormous changes in the next 25 years.

Now that your planning degree is in sight or in hand, how and where can you find your "e;dream job?

This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity.

For America's rural and suburban areas, new challenges demand new solutions.

Winner of the Planning Institute of Australia's 2015 Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award!

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation as critical for community resilience, considering the interaction of social, environmental, and physical systems with disasters.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation as critical for community resilience, considering the interaction of social, environmental, and physical systems with disasters.

Former Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner offers a candid insider look at her trailblazing time in elected office, the pressures and pitfalls of city and state politics, and the true potential of local government.

The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them.

The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them.

What is a better community?

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong's urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense urbanism.

The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy.

Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years.

Urban planning in today's world is inextricably linked to the processes of mass urbanization and modernization which have transformed our lives over the last hundred years.

In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance.

In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance.

What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country?

Air pollution has become part of the daily existence of many people who work, live and use the streets in Asian cities.

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised.

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps).

This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context.

Here is a book about the practical design of communities and housing in which people can enjoy a good quality of life, free from crime and fear of crime.

This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution.

'Tourism in South and South East Asia' is a comprehensive and solid introduction to tourism in South and South East Asia with a specific appeal both to institutions in the region, and other institutions who wish to expose students to one of the most dynamic tourism regions in the world.

Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure in the 21st Century.

The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects.

First Published in 1996.

First Published in 1996.

What can architects, landscape architects and urban designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and squares, more responsive, lively and safe?

Most African cities are human settlements that lack the systems needed for effective land use planning.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation.