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...

Electing a Mega-Mayor represents the first-ever comprehensive, survey-based examination of a Canadian mayoral race and provides a unique, detailed ...

Bringing together essays from leading experts who analyze how the landscapes, images, social dynamics, and economies of the industrial city have ch...

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery. "Urban Spaces after Socialism...

Düsseldorf is growing - in both its economy and its urban space. Yet the metropolis on the Rhine is doing so not by reinventing itself but by gaini...

Warsaw is one of the most dynamically developing cities in Europe, and its rich history has marked it as an epicenter of many modes of urbanism: ts...

This book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contrib...

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...

The postwar British city was been shaped by many international forces during the last century, but American influences on British urban research an...

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them t...

On June 23, 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in the Fort Trumbu...

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view...

"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically c...

To fully understand New Jersey in the 2020s and beyond, it is crucial to understand its ever-changing population. This book examines the twenty-fir...

African Americans have suffered intensely at the hands of America's dominant group, but the roles played by urban planning, land use policy, and th...

The nation’s Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15% of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing porti...

American cities' penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long be...

Despite decades of talk about globalization, democracy still depends on local self-government. In Local Self-Government and the Right to the City, ...

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

Powerless under the country's constitution, Canadian municipal governments often find themselves in conflict with their provincial masters. In 2002...

Policies promoting Toronto as a global city and provincial economic engine have been seen as beneficial to the development of all of Ontario, yet m...