Urban & Municipal Planning

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 years In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers incre...

This book provides an overview of the current planning paradigms and technical strategies to cope with climate change, specifically flooding. Arch...

The book cover current research results in Construction and Urban Planning and is divided into 18 chapters, including Geological and Geotechnical E...

A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United StatesNot long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a r...

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southe...

Growing Green Infrastructure in Contemporary Asian Cities examines to what extent green infrastructure (GI) is being implemented in East and Southe...

Containing research on sustainable urban redevelopment presented at the latest in a biennial series organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology...

A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design presents the key concepts, history, and methodology of geodesign. The book provides a frame...

More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global ...

In the early twentieth century, America was transformed from a predominantly agricultural nation to one whose population resided mostly in cities. ...

This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. Departing from the conventional theor...

From the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of...

These 425 papers, selected from the 2012 International Conference on Civil, Architectural and Hydraulic Engineering (ICCAHE 2012) held on August 10...

Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual...

 The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns in a revised edition, offering new case studies and new chapters on the economics of cultural quarters ...

Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practic...

In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital ma...

The Human City presents the most cogent, evidence-based and clear-headed exposition of the pro-suburban argument...enriching our understanding of w...

Whats next? The question of whether future retail design will be analogue, digital or hybrid has long since been answered. It is now interesting to...

A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our usean...

Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropoli...

This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the conce...

With reference to Singapore's smart urban initiatives, this book provides insights into how urban planning, digital technology and sustainability i...

This book showcases nine possible scenarios for future cities, based on different aspects and characteristics of the term proximity. Different poin...

The edges of cities are increasingly understood as places of dynamism and change, but there is little research on African urban peripheries, the na...

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASAs Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch...

The Power to Persuade provides an innovative and eye-opening analysis of strategic arguing as a means of power in global politics. Based on an empi...

America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 10...

America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 10...

America's Top-Rated Cities provides current, comprehensive statistical information and other essential data in one easy-to-use source on the top 10...

Once known as a drug capital and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have...

This book examines two civic initiatives in Europe and analyses their evolution through the institutionalisation of their practices, local public e...

As central places of human interaction, cities influence the reality of our lives like no other phenomenon. They are in a highly complex, reciproca...

In The Zone, Justinien Tribillon takes the reader on a tour of an eponymous Parisian hinterland. The site of dreams and nightmares, from Van Gogh's...

While it is recognised that competitive cities are essential for Australia's economic growth, that Australia's cities are seeing increasing social ...