Urban and municipal planning and policy

Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe first volume to focus on suburbs and sustainability in the United States, this collection approaches the topic through regionally diverse case studies.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are goals set by the United Nations to address the global challenges and foster sustainable development and harmony.

What can public art do for a community?

Ethnography for Designers teaches architects and designers how to listen actively to the knowledge people have about their own culture.

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

Households in the UK each generate around one tonne of waste per year, and the successful management and disposal of this waste is becoming an increasingly important issue.

This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.

This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new nationalisms.

This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live.

During the past decade, dozens of large cities lost population as jobs and people kept moving to the suburbs.

Contested Airport Land draws attention to the accelerating airport development in the Global South.

Are Britain's cities attractive places in which to live, work and play?

An illustrated history of the American city''s evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.

While we are used to looking around us, we are less used to listening to what happens around us.

Practical guide for transport policymakers and planners to achieve low-carbon land transport systems.

This two-volume set offers a comprehensive overview of major challenges faced by cities worldwide in the 21st century, and how cities in different geographic, economic, and political conditions are finding solutions to them.

In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations.

In Food City, a companion piece to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, innovative architect and urban designer CJ Lim explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been and can again become a construct for the practice of everyday life.

In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities.

Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities.

City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport.

It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'.

Throughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers constructing log cabins in nineteenth-century Canada, an artist group creating a waterfront gathering place along the Danube in Budapest, or residents helping revive small-town main streets in the United States.

Gated Luxury Condominiums in India: A Socio-Spatial Arena for New Cosmopolitans critically examines gated luxury condominiums in contemporary India, exploring their role in shaping elite power and identity within the framework of neoliberalism.

This book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism.

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of autonomous urban mobility, examining its transformative potential and the principles guiding its innovation.

Urban Transformations through Exceptional Architecture focusses on the nexus between architecturally exceptional projects and the city.

The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image.

This book discusses the role and significance of symbols and symbolism in graphical communication toward the establishment of meaningful architecture.

Originally published in 1984.

This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohemian suburb or the "e;boburb.

How should the metropolis be governed?

We hear the term "e;sustainability"e; everywhere today.

Originally published in 1990 and drawing on extensive research, this book provides an evaluation of the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK, and of the claims and counter-claims made for its social significance.

This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims to provide ways to improve the resilience of cities using a global perspective, especially in a post-pandemic era.

Licensing law is a wide ranging , detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

An exploration of Johannesburg's post-apartheid's city administration's governance of conflict from 1996 to the current day, in the case of service delivery protests and shifts in city policy.

Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have significantly transformed the city's built environment.

La ville qui paraissait hier séduisante, sophistiquée, lieu de tous les possibles, a cédé la place dans nos imaginaires à la ville tentaculaire, oppressante, polluée, sale, voire dangereuse avec la diffusion des épidémies.

How do we include and represent all people in cities?

Communities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial Take Charge programs of the early 1990s.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.

What makes the places we inhabit extraordinary?

The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "e;progress.

Appeals to the 'common good' or 'public interest' have long been used to justify planning as an activity.