Regional and area planning

Les préoccupations de la génération post-baby-boomers, les 25-40 ans, sont absentes des grands débats publics et cela explique en grande partie la désaffection des jeunes à l’égard de la politique, soutient Mélanie Joly.

En regard du phénomène de vieillissement, les auteurs se penchent sur la relation entre les personnes âgées et l’aménagement de l’espace au sein de deux métropoles, Montréal et Québec, en allant du macro (régions métropolitaines) au micro (espaces intérieurs), en passant la ville et les quartiers.

Over half of the world's population now lives in urban areas.

Rapid and radical changes were taking place in the countryside.

The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.

An Introduction to Inclusive Healthcare Design is a comprehensive guide to the design and facilitation of safe, healthy, equitable, and inclusive healthcare settings across a variety of scales.

This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies.

Democracy as Creative Practice: Weaving a Culture of Civic Life offers arts-based solutions to the threats to democracies around the world, practices that can foster more just and equitable societies.

This book explores novel theories, strategies and methods for re-naturing cities.

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

The deliberate devaluation of Blacks and their communities has had very real, far-reaching, and negative economic and social effects.

Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested.

Smart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about.

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Thirsty is an exploration of Los Angeles' storied history in regards to water.

How do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternative forms of urban life?

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages.

I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history.

"e;If there's one place to go for everything you need to know about housing and aging, it's Stephen Golant.

In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

The Civic Health Diagnostic Workbook was written with purpose: to help you diagnose your communitys civic health, plan for effective public engagement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of your engagement processes, and also identify, benchmark, and share best practices.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities.

This volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - one of the most urbanized states of India in the early part of the 20th Century.

Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions.

Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own.

Ian Nairn taught a generation to look, and another to write.

This book is about Africa south of the Sahara.

Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end.

Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end.

Transport is key to our daily lives.

Transport is key to our daily lives.

This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn't grow.

This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn't grow.

Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a housing crisis in the UK.

Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a housing crisis in the UK.

London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolized by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the old docks.