Urban & Municipal Planning

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux...

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon. To some, the term encompasses innovation, change and commitme...

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in...

This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific pl...

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of...

Jaqueline Tyrwhitts life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role ...

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most comp...

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It pr...

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastruc...

Northern Ireland has a complex urbanism with multilayered socio-spatial politics. In this environment, issues of communication, self-representation...

In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the M...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe. How it is defined, implemented and measured at the local le...

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their percept...

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes mel...

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon elec...

Virtually every city-region in West and Central Europe has developed policies and strategies to attract, retain and encourage creative industries a...

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographi...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...