Regional & Area Planning

Architecture plays a powerful role in nation building. Buildings and monuments not only constitute the built fabric of society, they also reflect t...

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, Europe...

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for ...

The fourth book in Nadia Amorosos Representing Landscapes series, this text focuses on traditional methods of visual representation in landscape ar...

Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) is famous worldwide for founding the Garden City movement, and he continues to be frequently cited by planners and theo...

Faith Made Flesh brings together the experience, insight, and stories of those actively addressing societal and educational disadvantages of Black ...

This open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage f...

Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-enco...

Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem i...

Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and...

Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again move...

This book provides students and professionals with practical answers to important career and communication questions, helping them to communicate s...

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events. It uncovers the financing of ...

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how w...

With cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject of how w...