Regional & Area Planning

In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanization, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's easte...

Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-tr...

We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically ret...

In recent times, we have all questioned whether we feel truly nurtured by where we live. With 68 per cent of the worlds population predicted to liv...

Published by the interdisciplinary design studio MODU, this reader explores the space between the interior and the exterior. How does the design of...

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive, and he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very ide...

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...