Regional & Area Planning

Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy while undergoing rad...

Securing high-quality, affordable housing near the workplace poses a complex challenge for communities across urban America, and this book offers t...

This book tells a story of privatisation on the London Underground. Privatisation - the Public-Private Partnership - was announced by New Labour in...

As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcarsknown as a Green Hornetslam...

Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transi...

Offers a comprehensive survey of affordable housing across the world. Presents numerous case-studies and best-practices on affordable housing desig...

Silicon Valley wants us to believe that technology will revolutionize our cities and the ways we move around. Autonomous vehicles will make us sa...

The Urban Nature maps aim to stimulate us to see the city differently and to explore its open spaces. It's a resource to encourage more awareness a...

The Urban Nature maps aim to stimulate us to see the city differently and to explore its open spaces. It's a resource to encourage more awareness a...

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the ce...

This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

EUROPAN is an initiative that puts on competitions for young architects. Founded in 1989 and supported by 13 countries in the EU, it runs a competi...

This issue focuses on: 1) Exploring the significance of territorial spatial planning by stressing its necessity and main ideas under the contempo...

The Nonprofit Almanac 2012 features the most recent data on the philanthropic sector, presented in more than 50 charts and 100 tables. Topics inclu...

Since the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, ...

Focusing on how cities have been torn down and remade based on the needs of the automobile and wars are fought to keep fuel tanks filled, this cons...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...

In Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government, attorney and political science scholar Evan McKenzie explores emerging trends in p...

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America an...

Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new ...

The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, trans...

For most, the term public space conjures up images of large, open areas where people congregate, socialize, and exchange thoughts and goods: the ...

What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Plann...

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the ...

As the world rapidly urbanizes, its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels - conduits for transport, utility, commu...

The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces...

This book contains the proceedings of the seventh in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began i...

Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthet...

This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and i...