Regional & Area Planning

This monograph analyses the role of border cities in promoting territorial development processes in border regions across the world. It not only em...

Many African countries are home to extraordinary architecture that is virtually unknown. There are interpretations of Art Deco, International Style...

The best streets in the world's villages, towns, and citieswhether modest or grandcontinually remind one that simplicity is part of the recipe for ...

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how...

Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilised or disproportionately allocated to the ...

What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green r...

What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persi...

New transportation technologies can expand our world. During the last century, motorised modes increased our mobility by an order of magnitude, pro...

Walker is a realist, and Human Transit is a spirited guideprescriptive but with a righteous dash of polemicto what we get wrong about transit. --To...

The SMOTIES network is a partnership of ten design universities, research centres, creative agencies, and national associations. Each partner selec...

Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produc...

This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aest...

Clearly demonstrates the specific characteristics that make for comprehensible, friendly and controllable places; 'Responsive Environments' - as op...

This book explores how the concept of region has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words regio...

Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWI...

The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system, and of what many critics see...

Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as c...

This book offers new guidance for urban and transportation planners and urban policy makers on how to accelerate development of cities away from au...

From the beginning of his career, Peter Calthorpe has been a leading innovator in sustainable building projects, sustainable development, and walka...

Short-term, community-based projects - from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives - have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activ...

What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change...

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visio...