Urban and municipal planning and policy

To best serve current and future generations, infrastructure needs to be resilient to the changing world while using limited resources in a sustainable manner.

Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world.

Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world.

Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industrial landscapes.

Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book provides the reader with a clear framework of theoretical and practical considerations for interpreting and designing post-industrial landscapes.

In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation.

In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation.

Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas.

Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas.

In an era of rapid change, uncertainty, and hyperpartisanship, when wicked problems abound, tools for solving public problems are more essential than ever.

In an era of rapid change, uncertainty, and hyperpartisanship, when wicked problems abound, tools for solving public problems are more essential than ever.

Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection examines in a new light how places enhance our understanding of crime and its control.

Unraveling the Crime-Place Connection examines in a new light how places enhance our understanding of crime and its control.

This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding.

This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding.

This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most fertile ground for climate change adaptation research.

This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most fertile ground for climate change adaptation research.

'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.

'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.

Virtual Humans provides a much-needed definition of what constitutes a 'virtual human' and places virtual humans within the wider context of Artificial Intelligence development.

Virtual Humans provides a much-needed definition of what constitutes a 'virtual human' and places virtual humans within the wider context of Artificial Intelligence development.

Originally published in 1979, Inside the City looks at The City of London as one of the important financial centres in the world.

Originally published in 1979, Inside the City looks at The City of London as one of the important financial centres in the world.

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies.

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies.

Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing.

Our understandings of the landscapes around us are constantly changing.

Seoul, as one of Asia's rising global cities, has been a place where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have taken place over the last five decades.

Seoul, as one of Asia's rising global cities, has been a place where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have taken place over the last five decades.

This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context.

Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use provides an approach to the formulation of the fundamental task typical to any mission and provides guidelines of how this task can be solved by different generic robotic problems.

Originally published in 1985, Capital City: London as a Financial Centre proves in depth analytical description of the financial institutions of the City of London.

Originally published in 1985, Capital City: London as a Financial Centre proves in depth analytical description of the financial institutions of the City of London.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

This book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice.

This book breaks new ground in understanding urban indigeneity in policy and planning practice.

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.

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.

Originally published in 1978, Schools in an Urban Community is an ethnography of the Carbrook and Hill Top area of the Attercliffe district of Sheffield before it was cleared for redevelopment.

Originally published in 1978, Schools in an Urban Community is an ethnography of the Carbrook and Hill Top area of the Attercliffe district of Sheffield before it was cleared for redevelopment.

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Written from an 'in house' perspective in response to the UK Government Housing White Paper released in February 2017, Housing Regeneration: A Plan for Implementation presents sustainable solutions to Britain's housing crisis and will be a useful practical guide for anyone involved in the process of regeneration.

Written from an 'in house' perspective in response to the UK Government Housing White Paper released in February 2017, Housing Regeneration: A Plan for Implementation presents sustainable solutions to Britain's housing crisis and will be a useful practical guide for anyone involved in the process of regeneration.

The science of AI was born a little over 60 years ago, but for most of that time its achievements were modest.

The science of AI was born a little over 60 years ago, but for most of that time its achievements were modest.

Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit.

Buildings shape our identity and sense of self in profound ways that are not always evident to architects and town planners, or even to those who think they are intimately familiar with the buildings they inhabit.

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed.