Regional and area planning

Crisis Cities blends critical theoretical insight with a historically-grounded comparative study to examine the redevelopment efforts following the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina disasters.

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities.

As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

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.

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire.

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

Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape.

As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste.

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States.

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.

Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.

Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II.

As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government.

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II.

Today there are over a billion vehicles in the world, and within twenty years, the number will double, largely a consequence of China's and India's explosive growth.

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.

In the 70 years between the Civil War and World War II, the women of Boston changed the city dramatically.

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life?

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.

Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940.

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning.

The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies.

What do economists know about land-and how they know?

The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies.

It is well understood that "e;good institutions"e; are essential for good governance.

The resources of both governments and traditional philanthropy are either barely growing or in decline, yet the problems of poverty, ill-health, and environmental degradation balloon daily.

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world.

The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world.

Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities.

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire.

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

Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay.

Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape.

Among American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all.

Among American conservatives, the right to own property free from the meddling hand of the state is one of the most sacred rights of all.

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city.

New York City's municipal government is the largest and most complex in the nation, perhaps in the world.

Can transportation problems be fixed by the right neighborhood design?

This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present.

As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste.

What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas?

This book unifies housing policy by integrating industrialized and developing-country interventions in the housing sector into a comprehensive global framework.

Ecology, Engineering, and the Paradox of Management is the first book that addresses and reconciles what many take to be the core paradox facing environmental decision-makers and stakeholders: How do they restore the environment while at the same time provide ever more services reliably from that environment, including clean air, water and energy for more and more people?

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

With cities acting as magnets for population concentration and economic growth, urban planning takes a center stage.

Planning law is one of the most fast moving legal areas, with major structural changes to the planning system occurring since 2014 .

Planning law is one of the most fast moving legal areas, with major structural changes to the planning system occurring since 2014 .

Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre Dame.