Regional & Area Planning

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space....

This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the enginee...

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are increasingly a core objective for policy makers, practitioners and citizens. Transport continues to...

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space....

Post-Civil War Spain used the countryside as locus and symbol for the reconstruction and modernisation of the state. The Modern Village in Francos ...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Reconstructing Public Housing unea...

Boston 's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. E...

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicagos iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-de...

In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicagos iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-de...

Bostons economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. Eco...

The sociology of rural territory plays a crucial role due to the diversity of challenges in different rural contexts. Each rural area has unique ch...

Building for Oil is a historical account of the development of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the Peopl...

Before there were sponge cities, there were sponge parks. Brooklyns Gowanus Canal is the site of the Sponge Park master plan and pilot projects, in...

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric centered on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-cla...

Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturall...

Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturall...

Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidanc...

America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 10...

America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 10...

This volume outlines the urban development of eight cities in the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo, Alexandria, Ankara, Cairo, Casablanca, Duba...

Living in a world beset by rising sea level, floods in urban and suburban areas, air pollution, and food security risks, it is urgent to mitigate t...

Suburbanization, affordable housing, mass transportation, loss of fertile lands -- these are modern problems, yet they are not new. Thomas Adams gr...

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape arch...

In Creating Green Roads, James and Matthew Sipes demonstrate that roads don't have to be the enemy of sustainability: they can be designed to minim...

Journalist and urban analyst James Russell argues that we'll slow global warming more quickly - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, sub...

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that l...

Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, ...

This is an updated look at the advantages and possibilities of urban agriculture in public spaces. Why plant trees that only provide shade when the...

Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how ...

The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritise safe driving and transit, cyclin...

This is the first book designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop Climate Act...

There are few more powerful questions than, Where are you from or Where do you live? People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to oth...

Scientist Robert McDonald details fundamentals of how to integrate natural infrastructure with urban planning to create resilient and liveable citi...

Robert Brown helps us see that a 'thermally comfortable microclimate' is the very foundation of well-designed and well-used outdoor places. Brown a...

15-minute city, noun: a city that is designed so that everyone who lives there can reach everything they need within 15 minutes on foot or by bike ...

This topical, edited collection analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of...

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure ordersand depends onmultiple urban temporalities. This agenda-setting vo...

This set of three books is based on the research of the Morphocity multidisciplinary team on the description, analysis and Numerical Modeling of Mo...

A deep exploration on how questions of time and its organisation affect planning practice, this book is aimed at public and private planning practi...

An unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City Daniel L. Doctoroff served as New York Citys Deputy...

Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to redevelopment practices in Moscow and consequent changes in citys govern...