Regional & Area Planning

In 1915, the road system in south Florida had changed little since before the Civil War. Travelling from Miami to Ft. Myers meant going through ...

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty ...

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era - the UK's housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on...

Building in Arcadia: The case for well-designed rural development is a reasoned, impassioned and ultimately practical book identifying key barriers...

Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities we encounter a peculiar...

The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urba...

Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look a...

Books about history using real life memories recorded specifically for the purpose are rare, Live, Work & Play is just such a book. Created fro...

He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their hone...

Altruism by Design: How to Effect Social Change as an Architect is meant to prepare the individual designer whether a student or practicing profes...

What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just betw...

Community development both a collective effort and an achievement driven by individual facilitators with the aim of lifting a community out of pove...

New initiatives, ideas and products change the way we relate to one another and to our environment, as well as the way we define and fulfil our nee...

How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing ...

In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials ar...

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial huband th...