Regional & Area Planning

This book aims to address the issue of the effects that the contemporary environmental, technological, social and economic global challenges produc...

Explore the forefront of urban resilience and sustainability with this groundbreaking collection of research and insights. From the 5th edition of ...

Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, san...

Islands have a long history of appealing to the architectural imagination and have served as sites for architectural expressions of cultural specif...

Bilingual edition (English/German) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (deutsch/englisch) From historic gardens and private gardens to parkland, botanical gard...

Transport is a key driver of socioeconomic development, as it allows people to access jobs, markets, social interaction, education, and other servi...

Cities are at once among humanitys crowning achievements and core drivers of the climate crisis. Their dependence on the outside world for vital re...

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape archi...

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housings social ...

For many younger and lower-income people, housing affordability continues to worsen. Based on the academic research of two distinguished housing ...

This book provides a manual for planning for arts and culture in cities, featuring chapters and case studies from Africa, the Americas, Australasia...

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers present needs ...

This book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwellers present needs ...

This book offers a historical analysis of the landfill sites in New York City, Greater Toronto, and Greater Tel Aviv, and uses them as case studies...

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities. Urban wetlands are very valuable blue-green infrastructure spaces for huma...

In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning. His seminal work, Design by Nature, blazed the trail for sustainable urban develop...

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity. By adding human capital, cities are incubators ...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

Affordable Housing in the United States addresses the issue of affordability, or lack thereof, in housing, going beyond conventional policy discuss...

This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and ...

Making Space is a pioneering work first published in 1984 which challenges us to look at how the built environment impacts on women's lives. It exp...

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. ...

Aligned with global trends in post-industrialization, the economy of Metro Vancouver is changing, but along its own trajectory. The focus is shifti...

Intelligent Buildings and Infrastructure with Sustainable and Social Values, Third edition is a comprehensive guide and an international reference ...

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forests influence on architect...

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forests influence on architect...

This book aims to outline the detailed process of integrating nature and cities in a historical context through the lens of urban environmental his...

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

In 2020, the COVID pandemic unfolded and transformed the lives of billions across the world. As the invisible killer marched across continents, ca...

WINNER, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, given by the African American Intellectual History Society A history of Black urban placemaking and politics ...

Spatial borders as sites of meaningful adjacencies and exchange.Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are prolif...

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It ...

This book uses the transformative innovation policy (TIP) as a lens to show how innovative processes, practices and systems could address critical ...