Urban and municipal planning and policy

In 1874 and 1875, Brazilian peasants in the Northeastern region of Brazil rose up in rebellion, destroying the weights and measures of the new metric system implemented by the government from Rio de Janeiro.

The most successful urban communities are very often those that are the most diverse - in terms of income, age, family structure and ethnicity - and yet poor urban design and planning can stifle the very diversity that makes communities successful.

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India.

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters.

Originally published in 1935, this book examines the causes of global rural depopulation, slum housing conditions and city over-crowding.

Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award!

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities.

In developing countries, squatter developments that house more than one-third of the urban population are without infrastructure and built from materials at hand.

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces.

This book is about building and maintaining involved, sustainable, and inclusive communities from the ground up during a period of unprecedented growth and global change.

The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy.

The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory.

Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities.

Originally published in 1979, this book was the first to provide a comprehensive political-economic analysis of the historical origins and 20th Century experience of state housing in the UK.

Originally published in 1973.

Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities.

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

This book presents the latest thinking on the benefits and dangers of higher density urban living.

**This title was originally published in 2001.

This edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in dealing with international displacement and forced migration and the influence of forced migration in stimulating spatial, societal, and institutional transformations in and of cities.

With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe.

This companion to Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses shows how the principles and concepts of urban design can be applied and implemented in a range of real-world settings.

This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management.

A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.

UCLG's Third Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) examines basic service provision and the current state-of-play of the local governance of basic services around the world.

When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored.

Britain's high street revolution has made retailing one of the most important and dynamic sectorsof the British economy in the last twenty years.

In a time of recession, the challenge of building and planning for tall buildings has become even more complex; the economics of development, legislative and planning frameworks, and the local politics of development must be navigated by those wishing to design and construct new tall buildings which fit within the fabric of their host cities.

Local Government Law provides a unique resource with concise, easy-to-understand explanations of important legal issues faced by local public officials, community boards, and city councils.

This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies.

First published in 1998, this book addresses a central issue in housing: that of 'need' and how to meet it.

Originally published in 1956, this book provides a non-technical analysis of contemporary building by on the of the world's greatest architects.

Through an interdisciplinary range of case studies from across the Northern rim of Europe, this volume shows how place reinvention as a concept affects not only global cities but also marginal regions.

New York's transformation back into a Gilded city and what to do about it.

Housing.

This examination of a phenomenon of 19th century planning traces the origins, implementation, international transference and adoption of the Garden City idea.

Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized.

Knighted in 1998 'for services to the Town and Country Planning Association', and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a 'Pioneer in the Life of the Nation', Peter Hall is internationally renowned for the breadth and depth of his studies and writings on urban and regional planning.

Development Drowned and Reborn is a "e;Blues geography"e; of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business.

Rapid urbanization, higher density and more compact cities have brought about a new science of urban climatology.

Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced.

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.

This book explores how conflicts around access to water shape cities, citizenship and infrastructures by tracing how water is commodified and controlled by the Public Enterprises of Medellin (EPM), one of the most successful publicly owned utility companies in the global South.

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating.

Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.

This book addresses some of the countless challenges faced by developing countries when adopting sustainable design and construction and offers suggestions for the way forward for African development projects.