Urban & Municipal Planning

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challen...

European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological c...

Americans are committing 'country-cide', says Rick Pruetz, FAICP, converting farms into suburban yards and channeling streams that once provided fl...

First published in 1984, this book presents a survey of housing problems in various European countries and how individual states have responded. Ea...

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the f...

Understanding Metropolitan Landscapes considers and reflects on the fundamental relationships between metropolitan regions and their landscapes. It...

In the decades following the 1997 Asian economic crisis, South Korea sought segyehwa (globalization). Evidence of this is no more evident than in t...

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and crea...

Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have si...

Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrians shows how outdoor lighting is important for pedestrians safety, personal security, and comfort, with major impacts...

This title was published in 2000: This text offers a standpoint on communicative, participatory planning called consensus planning. The discussion ...

First published in 2006, as numerous local authorities of European cities invest in the attractiveness of their urban areas in the hope of attracti...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context. Most models are rooted in ...

Much of the anticipated future growth in the United States will take place in suburbia. The critical challenge is how to accommodate this growth in...

This title was first published in 2001. Planning today has to deal with a completely different world from the one in which many of the basic ways o...

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant ...

Making Use of Deleuze in Planning translates and re-creates some of Gilles Deleuzes most abstract philosophical concepts to form a new, practicable...

Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City is an exploration into the reinvention, self-reflection and boosterism of US legacy cities, taking...

It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces where people live, w...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

This book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varie...

After 1945 it was not just Europes parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new...

This book is for the well-meaning idealists city planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers who are frustrated working within the ...

To best serve current and future generations, infrastructure needs to be resilient to the changing world while using limited resources in a sustain...

This volume explains the board's responsibilities and the limits of its power; discusses common types of zoning cases; provides model rules of proc...

The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academi...

Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increas...

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to tho...

This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we ...

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies...

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting. D...

In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects. Amid the fast-pace...

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns...

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing polit...