Regional and area planning

Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus.

Originally published in 1981, this book explores the plight of the locally born or locally employed faced with spiralling house prices and strong and unequal competition from the wealthier commuter, second-home owner or retirement migrant.

Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today.

Smart mobility includes automation, shared mobility services and other new forms of mobility made possible by digital technologies.

This book will address the destruction of urban forest in nine cities by bombing during World War II and the Bosnian War  and their reconstruction in the post-war years.

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

In developing countries the price of rapid growth is all too often noxious airborne pollution, which annually contributes to a disturbing number of avoidable deaths.

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces.

WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDIs the smart city the utopia weve been waiting for?

With style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle.

Despite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct focus on its urban dimensions.

A comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerceStreet commerce has gained prominence in urban areas, where demographic shifts such as increasing numbers of single people and childless "e;empty nesters,"e; along with technological innovations enabling greater flexibility of work locations and hours, have changed how people shop and dine out.

Following the crisis of the Special Period, Cuba promoted urban agriculture throughout its towns and cities to address food sovereignty and security.

Originally published in 1991.

In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning.

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

This book provides examples and suggestions for readers to understand how public investment decisions for sustainable infrastructure are made.

A small number of countries, regions, cities, and localities are powerful gatekeepers and generate the bulk of creative and innovative ideas, while the majority is largely excluded.

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries.

This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local conditions.

The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the IconSWM 2018 conference, which explore various aspects of urban mining.

Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity.

Ausuferndes Siedlungswachstum hat nicht nur negative ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Folgen, es steht auch im Widerspruch zum Prinzip der Nachhaltigkeit.

Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians.

Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development.

This handbook introduces community leaders to an understanding oftransportation mobility, offering suggestions to reduce congestion, automobile dependence, and vehicle miles of travel.

Named one of the Top 10 books about council housing - the Guardian onlineBorn of idealism, and once an icon of the Labour movement and pillar of the Welfare State, council housing is now nearing its end.

This title was first published in 2003.

First published in 1992, this book collects together the papers presented at the International Symposium on Design Review which was held to address the growing tendency of local governments to institute programs of aesthetic control.

Cities have historically supported production, commerce, and consumption, all central to urban life.

This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.

The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that urban planners face at a local level.

The intricate relationship between food, city and architecture, spanning from ancient civilizations to the present, serves as a focal point for interdisciplinary discourse.

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of southeastern China-projected to reach eighty million inhabitants by the year 2025.

*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Green, Restorative Practices /Sustainability"e;Hannah Lewis describes a gift to a despairing world.

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as 'an urgent agenda' (World Bank 2010).

To celebrate the centenary of the first garden city at Letchworth, the Town and Country Planning Association has performed a service to planners everywhere by initiating the republication in facsimile form of the very scarce original first edition of To-Morrow.

A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

This book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing.

Gentrification is one of the most debilitating-and least understood-issues in American cities today.

This book offers original theoretical and empirical insight into the social, cultural and ecological politics of rapidly changing urban spaces such as old factories, rail yards, verges, dumps and quarries.

It is the purpose of this book to bring together materials that may help the lawyer and the planner talk together with a greater understanding of each other's problems and points of view.

Cities have played an important role in our lives since the dawn of civilization.

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

As one of the fastest growing cities in Europe, London has become a mass generator of employment and a magnet for inward migration.

As culture is becoming increasingly recognised as a crucial element of sustainable development, design competence has emerged as a useful tool in creating a meaningful life within a sustainable mental, cultural and physical environment.