Regional & Area Planning

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's negro advisor to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

This oversize, profusely illustrated book tells the story of the more than twentyfive- year history of cutting-edge architect Eric Moss's transform...

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...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wi...

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from c...

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants...

Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of single industry towns, which emer...

In their unrelenting drive to create a thriving desert metropolis, leaders of the most populous city in the arid Southwest, Phoenix, Arizona, seeme...

This book''''s objective is to present a comprehensive, theoretical, practical, and adaptive approach to understanding the issues involved in eco-c...

Since the smart component became one of the pillars of the European Unions development, many cities, particularly post-socialist ones, have perceiv...

Geotourism is a new, emerging scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth science in the study of natural and human tourism resources...

Tokyo's seemingly endless sea of buildings has grown incrementally over the past centuries, leading to an urban condition that is both coherent and...

How do we prepare for and manage the challenges and the transformations that are increasingly confronting cities? Solutions are necessary for the i...

In Land Use Planning and the Environment, the authors have dramatically revised and updated a classic, seminal casebook, Land-Use Planning. Designe...

The book takes off with a general overview which is an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. The next chapter is an analysis of the patte...

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the way...

States and their local governments have practical tools to help combat urban sprawl, protect farmland, promote affordable housing, and encourage re...