Regional & Area Planning

The private rental housing market plays an important and growing role in the advanced economies. Providing accommodation for a wider range of house...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

The ability of our nation''s transportation system to provide for and maintain the efficient movement of freight is important to the continuing eco...

Decisions about how and where we build our communities have significant impacts on the natural environment and on human health. Cities, regions, st...

This book examines the funding of roads and highways in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England and Wales, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan,...

Vehicles carrying objects that are not properly secured pose a safety risk on our nation''s roadways. Debris that falls from a vehicle can collide ...

Public transportation in rural areas can be critical to connecting people to jobs, shopping, and health services. The Federal Transit Administratio...

Book & CD-ROM. The failure of federal highway user taxes and fees to provide sufficient revenues to support even baseline surface transportatio...

This book presents an investigation into some of the most common causes that experts believe are responsible for traffic accidents and vehicle cras...

For the past half-century, the planning system has operated on the basis of a growth-dependence paradigm. It has been based on market-led urban dev...

A thorough description of a built environments life cycle (brief; design; raw material extraction, transport and processing; construction materials...

Our rural communities are home to some of the most hard working and fiercely self-reliant Americans in the United States. Strong and secure rural c...

Millions of Americans are unable to provide their own transportation or have difficulty accessing public transportation. Such transportation-disadv...

It did not take long for the two megacities of Beijing and Shanghai to embrace the fashion of culture-led urban regeneration. Forerunner is the cas...

Airlines have imposed a variety of fees on a range of optional services, such as checked and carry-on bags; meals; blankets; early boarding; and se...

Recent research has demonstrated how gentrification and urban redevelopment can serve to promote and exacerbate socio-spatial stigmatisation direct...

Policy-makers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation''s faltering economic conditions. One opti...

Grid electrified vehicles or plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) are gaining attention world-wide as a potential low carbon technology. Because it is s...

Way Beyond Bigness is a design-research project that studies the Mekong, Mississippi and Rhine river basins, with particular focus on multi-scaled,...

This new and comprehensive story of instrumental conservationist Pearl Chases fascinating life is a tribute to her remarkable achievements. Spendin...

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction, walk to a res...

Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting...

The global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we believe we know how to create a...

Outdoor Environments for People addresses the everyday human behavior in outdoor built environments and explains how designers can learn about and ...

The advent of gaming on Indian reservations has created a new kind of tribal politics over the past three decades. Now armed with often substantial...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The City of Mariupols heroic defence and systematic destruction at the beginning of the Russian invasion have made it an international symbol of se...

This book positions Ulaanbaatar as a unique case and one that allows us to view our urban world differently. Operating as a primordial soup of emer...

Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildi...

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new for...

'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool...

The Festival of Britain is perhaps best known for its South Bank Exhibition promoting British science and art to the post-war world, but one of the...

When cash-strapped local governments fail to provide adequate services, and planning policies prioritize economic development over community needs,...

Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotl...