Regional and area planning

Drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

Breaking new ground and drawing on contributions from the leading academics in the field, this notable volume focuses specifically on industrial relations.

For well over a decade, there has been a drive towards sustainability in planning throughout the Nordic countries.

Following decades of neglect and decline, many US cities have undergone a dramatic renaissance.

Small farms represent important components of food systems and rural areas, as sources of occupation and livelihood, factors of socio-economic diversity, cradles of grass-roots innovation and experimentation.

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance.

Public spaces are the renditions of the power symmetry within the social setting it resides in, and is both controlling and confining of power.

This book presents a new approach to housing research, one that is relevant to all the social sciences.

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity.

Smart Urban Mobility: Transport Planning in the Age of Big Data and Digital Twins explores the data-driven paradigm shift in urban mobility planning and examines how well-established practices and strong data analytics efforts can be better aligned to fit transport planning practices and "e;smart"e; mobility management needs.

Urban Health: A Global Perspective, Fifteenth Edition outlines the problems, issues, and solutions to health in urban areas on a global scale.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

Examining discomfort's physical, emotional, conceptual, psychological and aesthetic dimensions, the contributors to this volume offer an alternate, cultural approach to the study of architecture and the built environment.

COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants.

An increase in major natural disasters has led to heightened concerns about utility operations and public safety.

Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

'Several high quality scientific journals are published in the area of building energy and indoor/outdoor environment; however, one has been missing.

This book challenges the concept of 'urban resilience' by exploring its impact and limitations in three cities.

By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030.

In recent decades, the intensification of unpredictable events including the Covid-19 outbreak, Brexit, trade warfare, religion-inspired terrorism and civil wars, and climate change has resulted in serious loss of human lives and property, a decrease in biodiversity and natural hazards (with long-term negative impacts on environment), and impeded social and economic development.

Public Interest Design Education Guidebook: Curricula, Strategies, and SEED Academic Case Studies presents the pedagogical framework and collective curriculum necessary to teach public interest designers.

Taming the Oriental Bazaar examines the public market-hall as a key architectural feature of colonial South Asia.

Written by a team of renowned contributors and carefully edited to address the themes laid out by the editors in their introduction, the book includes theoretical issues concerning the questions of aesthetics and politics and addresses city and urban strategies within the general critique of the "e;post-political"e;.

Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability explores and unravels the phenomena, links and benefits between density, compactness and the sustainability of cities.

This book explores everyday walking in contemporary urban life.

Geology and Natural Resources of Nigeria is an up to date and comprehensive overview of the geological framework of the continental crust of Nigeria, its evolution, and the natural resources it holds.

The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community crime patterns.

The material heritage of the colonial era is built into Africa's cities, from their urban layouts, to their architecture, monuments and street names.

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'.

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common?

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization.

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy.

Originally published in 1988, Accommodating Inequality provides a basis for a radical re-think of housing policy and provision in Australia from a gender perspective.

Ensuring optimum ventilation performance is a vital part of building design.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning.

Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeking a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of designing and laying out residential areas.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

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

This book is a good reference book for city planners, architects and civil engineers involved in the conceptualisation, design and building of urban habitations, who aspire to increase the liveability of their cities.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

This is a book about the power of the arts to enhance city images, urban economies and communities.

¿Cómo debemos pensar, diseñar y producir hoy la ciudad para que sea un lugar sostenible?

Providing a new picture of the socio-economic map of central Europe after several years of transformation, and focusing in particular on Poland, this book gives an account of the major problems of regional restructuring.

This volume is a compilation of studies on interactions of changes in land cover, land use and climate with people, societies and ecosystems in drylands of Greater Central Asia.

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.

Development of brownfield land can address shortfalls in the availability of land for housing and other buildings, but these sites present a range of problems that must be overcome in any successful development.

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All over the world societies are facing a number of major problems.