Urban and municipal planning and policy

Contemporary cities in the Iberian Peninsula have gone through a period of dramatic changes during the last decade.

Compact living is sustainable living.

The Power to Persuade provides an innovative and eye-opening analysis of strategic arguing as a means of power in global politics.

How does it feel to live in a 'haunted home'?

A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "e;"e;cities"e;"e; reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs.

The book offers a model for city development and renewal based on land value capture (called 'value capture').

The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Toronto is an appropriate occasion to reflect on the history of one of Canada's major cities.

The idea of community development grew, in large part, out of the activities of colonial administrators.

Originally published in 1994, Urban Land and Property Markets in the United Kingdom, adopts a perspective that encompasses the distinctive nature of the legal framework, land law, property market and procedures of Scotland, England and Wales.

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.

In this handbook, 60 authors, senior and junior educators, and researchers from six continents provide an overview of 200 years of landscape architectural education.

The application of mixed methods research design in the built environment discipline by students and academics has continued to grow exponentially.

Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives.

Every day throughout Britain, by road, by rail and by sea, there are large numbers of routine movements of radioactive cargo.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity.

In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living.

Green Productivity and Cleaner Production: A Guidebook for Sustainability focuses on green production processes that could help better achieve global sustainability.

Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong's country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas.

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment.

'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs.

Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The City is an Ecosystem maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality-which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world's population currently live.

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, carries and projects powerful regional dimensions and transformations, with short- and long-term global, national and local consequences.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1969 and 2001, is comprised of original books published in conjunction with the British Sociological Association.

Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically associated with cities.

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands.

Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level.

The second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners.

Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers.

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars.

**Please note this is an unedited paperback reprint of the hardback, originally published in 2003**The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate.

'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the establishment of a strong shelter sector.

The edited book highlights comprehensive studies on plant diversity dynamics, ecosystem processes, and best conservation practices from the interdisciplinary perspectives such as the botanists, ecologists, conservation biologists, geneticists, cell biologists, molecular biotechnologists, and social scientists.

This book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally.

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development.

Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the 'Solent City' stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl - muted, and slow to emerge - yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation and restraint.

From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions.

The Struggle for Jerusalem's Holy Places investigates the role of architecture and urban identity in relation to the political economy of the city and its wider state context seen through the lens of the holy places.

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global.

The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport is a reference work of chapters providing in-depth examination of the current issues and future developments facing public transport.