Urban and municipal planning and policy

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.

This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology possession.

This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology possession.

Public participation in the housing permitting process empowers unrepresentative and privileged groups who participate in local politics to restrict the supply of housing.

Public participation in the housing permitting process empowers unrepresentative and privileged groups who participate in local politics to restrict the supply of housing.

This Element examines why we should care how cities matter, and what difference does it make to our daily lives.

A compelling history of the impact of automobiles on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world''s largest tidal delta.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

American cities are shifting collections of individual neghborhoods.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

A panoramic study of our Urban Planet that takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the world''s cities.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain''s transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.

This Element proposes a conceptual-methodological vantage point that examines urban development to address power inequalities.

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

This Element proposes a conceptual-methodological vantage point that examines urban development to address power inequalities.

Local governments use their control over land use to generate race and class segregation, benefitting white property owners.

A study that maps India''s political opportunities and closures for claim making in general and housing grievances in particular.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

Investigates Roman built environments from architectonic and planning perspectives, while celebrating the achievements of the provinces as well as Italy.

Examines a pioneering programme of urban development to rewrite the history of Britain''s transition from social democracy to neoliberalism.

Investigates Roman built environments from architectonic and planning perspectives, while celebrating the achievements of the provinces as well as Italy.

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.

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

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

Research volume on urban energy transition that will have wide interdisciplinary appeal to researchers in energy, urban and environmental studies.

Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.

Shows how highways facilitated the sorting of Democrats and Republicans along urban-suburban lines, polarizing the politics of metropolitan development.

Analyses voluntary programs for sustainable buildings and cities, a prominent strategy to mitigate climate change.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

Over 100 scientists, architects, journalists, artists and activists address creatively the unprecedented challenges facing an Urban Planet.

The first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates, suitable for students and researchers alike.

The first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates, suitable for students and researchers alike.

Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.

Describes the physics of the coastal ocean, for advanced students, researchers, urban planners, and environmental engineers.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

Scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of US suburban development.

Scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of US suburban development.

Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Fifth Edition represents a continuation of research and recommendations from the past editions that spans nearly twenty years of focusing on critical infrastructure (CI) protection.

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angelestraces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the citys growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.

An accessible introduction to the unifying principles of ecology through the exploration of urban ecosystems.

An accessible introduction to the unifying principles of ecology through the exploration of urban ecosystems.

In a world defined by ever-deepening crises-climate, social, economic, and political-urban spaces emerge as both battlegrounds of injustice and the arenas of possibility.

Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK.

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived.

This book responds to the need to rehabilitate the holistic urban environment by introducing planning approaches which focus on the Japanese idea of "e;Satoyama.

The book examines how globalised urban labour and property markets are produced by agrarian actors, institutions, spaces and territories.