Urban Communities

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman...

This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Londons tall-...

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2 are essential handbooks not only for students studying surveying but also for surveyors and others ...

This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the Global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that con...

A genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the city, the self, and society.A Natural History of Empty Lots is ...

This book examines urban water ecosystem management and restoration through selected case studies in Asia and Africa. Employing a socioecological a...

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experien...

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gath...

City Politics has received praise for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme that urban politics in the United States...

The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban developme...

The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban developme...

Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This ...

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to ca...

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivit...

How teachers can unlock the power of inclusivity and joy to transform their classroom and behavior management In Rooted in Joy: Creating a Classroo...

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the ...

This book describes a secondary analysis of survey data collected from a modified snowball sample of 96 homeless and runaway youth. The sample cont...

Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and...

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. ...

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and a...

First published in 2000, this volume draws from the result of the fieldwork conducted in Yogyakarta Special Region in 1991 and 1992, with the aim o...

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...

What is the role of the university? Current systems may stress research output, but Wortham-Galvin, Allen, and Sherman seek to re-establish the imp...

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europes large cities. They are faced wi...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and h...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a partic...

Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil soc...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international comm...

Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, so...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate t...