Regional & Area Planning

*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.* ...

Traditional country parks, which originated in the United Kingdom, are very different to the country parks we know today. With the development of u...

'Green space in the community' refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment fa...

A major social and political phenomenon of how a community overcame overwhelming opposition and obstacles to build the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Stret...

Water as a resource is irreplaceable. Yet heavy rainfall can become an absolute disaster - even in modern cities - if rainwater is not drained out ...

Landscape is not only the visible material surface of places but also refers to ways of interpreting fluid or contested social relations and spatia...

Once a blue-collar outpost, Seattle, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and hundreds of startups, transformed into one of the worlds major innovation hubs ...

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the w...

For centuries the garden has served as a central element in Muslim culture. In that tradition, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has been rehabilitati...

What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers w...

How will automated vehicles change our lives? Where are the opportunities and challenges? Future streets require planning today. This timely book e...

A practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of d...

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the global(i...

Collaboration and leadership strategies for long-term success Fueled by the popularity of permaculture and agroecology, community food forests are...

Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities ...

Community development refers to planned efforts aimed at producing assets to increase the ability and capacity of inhabitants to enhance quality of...

The Harvard GSD Aecom Project on China was a three-year research and design project premised on two fundamental ambitions: recuperating an idea of ...

The Kings Cross scheme is one of the largest and most complex developments taking place in Britain today. Through documenting this seminal case-st...

Whether touted for its burgeoning economy, affordable housing, and pleasant living style, or criticized for being less like a city than a sprawling...

How to create the world's new urban future With the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planningthe practice of la...

An inspiring guide to innovative strategies for preparing communities for unprecedented climate impactsStructures of Coastal Resilience presents ne...

What does it mean to be a resilient city in the age of a changing climate and growing inequity? As urban populations grow, how do we create efficie...

All over the world, cities are facing growing pressure to develop upwards with tall buildings that have a direct impact upon their visual character...

Cities across the globe have been designed with a primary goal of moving people around quickly--and the costs are becoming ever more apparent. The ...

This important text book is the first to be written about infrastructure planning in Britain. Written by an experienced author, the book reviews th...

There has been a revolution in urban transportation over the past five years, set off by start-ups across the US and internationally. Sleek, legibl...

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

This guide presents the Urban Futures Method to test the likely future performance of urban development and regeneration-related sustainability sol...

Cities in Transition focuses on the sustainability transitions initiated in 40 European cities. The book presents the incredible wealth of insight...

What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city. A city that people admire, learn from, and replicate. City planner ...

What makes a great city? Not a good city or a functional city but a great city. A city that people admire, learn from, and replicate. City planner ...

The United States is over eighty percent urbanised, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterised by low-density,...

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive poli...

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern B...

Desire lines are the paths that people create through regular usage. They appear where people repeatedly choose to walk and usually signify a route...

Drawn from the Hoover Institutions Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issue...

The United States is over eighty percent urbanised, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterised by low-density,...

A manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustain...

The City: A Global Handbook provides succinct, expert-written articles needed by planners, designers, and any professional or student concerned abo...