Urban & Municipal Planning

What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the im...

In this volume, the author draws from more than a decade of editing experience to explain how to craft clear, understandable, and highly readable p...

The local food movement is one of the most active of current civil engagement social movements. This work presents primary evidence from over 900 d...

Biophilic Urbanism provides readers with the tools to create more nature-based urban environments that are climate positive, sustainable, and healt...

In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stori...

Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration a...

There are a number of recent texts that draw on psychoanalytic theory as an interpretative approach for understanding architecture, or that use the...

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approache...

Building Communities: The Co-Operative Way, first published in 1988, sets the flourishing of housing co-operatives throughout the 1980s in a theore...

In recent years, many countries all over Europe have witnessed a demand for a more direct form of democracy, ranging from improved clarity of infor...

This book presents a case study of one of Latin Americas most important and symbolic spaces, the Zócalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic e...

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-e...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the U...

Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Desi...

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States. What happened next a...

Today, the increasing mobility of capital, people and information has changed the space relations of urban societies. Contractual relations have in...

This book analyses the influence of art and culture as an engine to promote the resilience of regional and urban economies. Under a multidiscplinar...

The role of cities in addressing climate change is increasingly recognised in international arenas, including the Sustainable Development Goals, th...

Community Visioning for Place Making is a groundbreaking guide to engaging with communities in order to design better public spaces. It provides a ...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

Todays most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influ...

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...

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural m...