Urban & Municipal Planning

This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global cl...

Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While...

Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the same, and gentr...

On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, A...

As with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product. The pre...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, re...

Urban Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Ireland is a wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays, which offers new insights on the Irish urban expe...

Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, lon...

Collective Impact as a tool to bring about community change has seen remarkable growth in usage since 2011. Collective Impact has been used success...

Liverpool Beyond the Brink is a fascinating commentary on the economic decline that caused the physical, social and political fragmentation of the ...

Historically, many architects, planners, and urban designers solicit idealistic depictions of a controllable urban environment made from highly reg...

As the world becomes more urbanised, solutions are required to solve current challenges for three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, ...

The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the...

An instruction manual for change, Urban Beekeeping explores how we can adapt urban spaces to create a more sustainable future, both for bees and fo...

The city appears as an artefact, a more or less homogeneous technical ensemble, but also as a production of space, the privileged place where socia...

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It i...

Cities worldwide are at a crossroads, facing the pressing need to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. The impacts of climate change, economic ...

Our economic welfare and social well-being depend on our mobility. But our means of travel threaten the planet's sustainability. In this innovative...

In this handbook, 60 authors, senior and junior educators, and researchers from six continents provide an overview of 200 years of landscape archit...

Nestled amidst rolling hills, Shillong, the Himalayan capital city of Meghalaya in Indias northeast, faces a growing challenge of water scarcity. T...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, a...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, a...

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. Th...

The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design explores contemporary research, policy, and practice that highlight critical aspects of strategy-making, ...

This book provides a different narrative and approach to rethinking stormwater management through sustainable urban design. It delves into design i...

The material provided in this book is intended to serve as a warning. Failure to address the underlying causes of relatively recent and significant...

This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and ...

Manhattans Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contribution to New Yorks ...

From one of todays most inspired architects and urban advocates, a manifesto for architecture as a force for addressing our biggest social challeng...

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions to debt, despair, and onto the streets. T...

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in th...

The urban renewal policies stemming from the 1954 Housing Act and 1956 Highway Act destroyed the economic centers of many Black neighborhoods in th...

A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar de...

The report aims to help the cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China identify their potentials for green development, especially to find ...

The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within ...

Transport choices must be transformed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change, but this can only be done if we understand how comp...

You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related susta...

Scandinavian countries are generally associated with extensive public services and low levels of poverty. However, reality has changed dramatically...

Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology - the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focu...

This open access book examines collaborative approaches to urban transformation processes and guides smart co-design applications in such contexts....