Regional & Area Planning

Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economi...

Criminal justice programs, to be adopted in today's climate, need demonstrate not only efficacy but return on tax dollars invested. Cost-benefit an...

In Holding Police Accountable, nine of todays leading scholars on police work examine seminal research on the use of force and how it can inform to...

A visionary of sustainable urbanism reflects on the innovative projects that uplift cities in this meditative journey through vibrant communities a...

The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use. Cyclists were the...

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transfor...

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

Building on unique data, this book analyses the efficacy of a prominent climate change mitigation strategy: voluntary programs for sustainable buil...

Unlike European countries where the consolidation of town planning was based on legislative reforms, Latin Americas urbanismo mainly stemmed from u...

Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and r...

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

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban pl...

Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies. Market forces that prioritise...

Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas. Today, however, ecological research has been taking p...

From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the...

The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key...

An incisive view of Torontos development over the last fifty years. In Toronto Reborn, Ken Greenberg describes the emerging contours of a new Tor...

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban iss...

During the nineteenth century, Londons population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs...

Sustainable City/Developing World (ISOCARP Review 06) addresses the challenges posed by climate change for the cities and urban regions of the deve...

Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city for more than a decade. It is expanding outward while also growing ...

To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to...

Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at...

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designe...

This book is about designing for food. It explores three fast transforming urban sites in London, centred on the regenerating spaces of Borough, Br...

Cities face critical challenges connected to population growth, urbanisation, and climate change. Fundamental transformations in urban planning, co...

Urban sprawl has radically transformed Southern European landscapes. Nowadays, sprawl is a major benefiting factor in the daily lives of thousands ...

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...

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have ca...

Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border in Dearborn, but also was the ...