Regional & Area Planning

Le continent europeen se caracterise par une forte densite en organisations intergouvernementales competentes dans le domaine de la securite. Ces d...

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is 'simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years' (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Time...

Timber deals with wide-ranging use of the material in historic buildings, from vast structural timber-frames through to high-class joinery and simp...

Stone considers the wide variety of historical uses, from simple masonry walling through to elaborate carving and decoration. The book considers wh...

In Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Lynne A. Weikart dives into the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg, offering an incisive analysis of Bloomberg's policies d...

Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty. A...

In Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City's story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made th...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global citiesSingapore, Sydney, and Dubaiand the p...

The years before the First World War saw the development of a widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at affordable rents thro...

Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many ...

New York Politics examines aspects of state government that are often hidden in the secret sessions of the parties' legislative conferences: the cl...

New York Politics examines aspects of state government that are often hidden in the secret sessions of the parties' legislative conferences: the cl...

In July 2018 a revised National Planning Policy Framework was published, coming into effect immediately. First published in 2012, the NPPF is the ...

Neighbourhood planning, introduced by the Localism Act 2011, is now well established as the new 'first tier' of our planning system. The key to thi...

In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to the world's toughest drainage problem, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recoun...

This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggl...

Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary poli...

Metals deals with the conservation of a group of materials that have been used in buildings for everything from structural components and fixings t...

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. The sta...

The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard''s visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto...