Urban & Municipal Planning

The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaboration Based on the results of m...

Think tanks are often thought of as a uniquely US phenomenon. Although the largest concentration of think tanks is in the United States, they can b...

It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surr...

How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together a...

Think tanks are often thought of as a uniquely US phenomenon. Although the largest concentration of think tanks is in the United States, they can b...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly writte...

How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together a...

Internationally acclaimed architect, Avi Friedman recounts the genesis and development of his innovative project, the Grow Home. Like the auto indu...

A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly. The Age-Friendly City program, dev...

This book is about how you listen and what you hear, about how to have a dialogue with the sounds around you. Marcia Jenneth Epstein gives readers ...

Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care. These are the core systems which make human life possible in the 21st century. Few...

A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it  The city of Toronto is often held up as a lea...

Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other American city, New Orleans sin...

After reestablishing the connection between morality and the law, the author develops a coherent position on many of the most controversial issues ...

Shock Cities is environmental history of the highest order. This searching work is the first trans-Atlantic study to examine the industrial city i...

In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lowe...

At the heart of the globalization of trade and of economies, estuarine cities are at the forefront of accelerating global change. They must confron...

Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.This is t...

Seit über 70 Jahren dominiert das private Auto den öffentlichen Raum deutscher Städte. Mit dem Free Street Manifesto stellt eine kreativ-wissenscha...

In Canada, the quality of municipal democracy has been questioned due to three crucial factors. First, voter turnout tends to be significantly lowe...