Regional and area planning

Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it.

Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story.

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During the last two decades, sustainability has become the dominant concern of transportation planners and policymakers.

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their associated technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in the nine years since the first edition of this book was published.

Housing market renewal is one of the most controversial urban policy programmes of recent years.

Originally published in 1981, French Cities in the Nineteenth Century analyses large-scale processes of social change, and looks at how this affected the growth of towns and cities of nineteenth century France.

Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes.

While contemporary human geography has widely acknowledged that knowledge has both contingent and contextual character, international literature has tended to blot out differences and reproduce hegemonic Anglo-Saxon discourses.

Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline.

With more than half the world's population now living in urban areas, urbanisation is undoubtedly one of the most important phenomena of the 21st century.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

Powerless under the country's constitution, Canadian municipal governments often find themselves in conflict with their provincial masters.

Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination.

Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood.

The object of this book is to highlight how the nascent field of sustainability science is addressing a key challenges for scientists; that is, understanding the workings of complex systems especially when humans are involved.

Drawing on almost a decade of first-hand experience, Principles of Digital Democracy presents a unique look at digital democracy tools in action.

If we do stop to think on housing, what do we see?

Modernity has entrusted technology with such power that it is treated as an autonomous entity, with its own manners and morals.

The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, is a place where architecture and landscape come together.

A collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others.

First Published in 2004.

Traffic crashes are one of the ten leading causes of deaths worldwide, and the leading cause of death for young people in the western world - a seemingly necessary evil that accompanies increasing levels of motorization.

This textbook on urban ecosystems answers important questions about the ecological structure, functions and socio-ecological development of cities worldwide.

Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda.

In context of ongoing transformations in housing markets and socioeconomic conditions, this book focuses on past, current and future roles of home ownership in social policies and welfare practices.

This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing 'bottom up' community initiatives successfully.

When the rivers run dry--water solutions for a thirsty planet.

In hot dry or warm humid climates, more than half of the urban peak load of energy consumption is used to satisfy air-conditioning demands alone.

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements.

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities.

This book discusses a crucial paradigm shift in urban planning and architectural design, addressing the urgent need for sustainability  and adaptation in the face of rapidly changing climate and urban landscapes.

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

Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple fact - contaminants do not respect country borders.

The twenty-first century has so far been characterized by ongoing realignments in the organization of the economy around housing and real estate.

How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world?

With the growth of cities and towns throughout the developing world have come significant health problems.

This book offers a transnational history of Pakistan''s development in the 1950s and 1960s, and the creation of the capital city Islamabad.

This book presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities , including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta.

This series is designed to cover all aspects of sound financial management for local governments in developed and developing countries and economies in transition.

Originally published in 1982, this book gives a concise commentary on the development and performance of car ownership prediction procedures and a wide-ranging survey of the modelling techniques associated with forecasting.

The startling story of how American cities emerge, grow, change, contract, decay, and become resuscitated.

Climate change has demonstrated, perhaps more than any other environmental concerns, the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding a far greater environmental consciousness into our social values and norms.

The spread of newly 'invented' places, such as theme parks, shopping malls and revamped historic areas, necessitates a redefinition of the concept of 'place' from an architectural perspective.

The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.