Urban & Municipal Planning

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...

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and co...

Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyzes two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey Karanfilköy and Fatih Sultan ...

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning ...

Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is s...

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

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Fore...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church ...

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...

Originally published in 1971, this volume contains papers invited for a conference on economic research relevant to national urban development held...

This advice note illustrates the application of the policies set out in the NPPF in determining applications for planning permission and listed bui...