Regional & Area Planning

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 ...

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...