Urban & Municipal Planning

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 ...

This book reveals the interaction between the livelihood of people and the surrounding natural environment in rural and urban areas of Vietnam and ...

Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives Rich Pictures as an important component and starting point for community parti...

In the evolving landscape of smart cities, the integration of technology and real-time data management presents a dual-edged challenge and opportun...

WINNER, 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize, given by the African American Intellectual History Society A history of Black urban placemaking and politics ...

In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city...

Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the...

Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society e...

This thought-provoking book exhorts planners to establish community development programs that achieve greater social and economic equity. Some of t...

Devils Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New Yorks oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th...

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from...

Armed with the motto Diversity Our Strength, the City of Toronto has garnered a world-class reputation for challenging racism, largely because of h...

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from...

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infr...

Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities — human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and nat...

Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, an...

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most wri...

As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most wri...

Urban Health: A Global Perspective, Fifteenth Edition outlines the problems, issues, and solutions to health in urban areas on a global scale. The ...

Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at th...

Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at th...

Electing a Mega-Mayor represents the first-ever comprehensive, survey-based examination of a Canadian mayoral race and provides a unique, detailed ...

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive re...

This book features contributions focusing on innovative technologies influencing industry and connectivity sectors in industrial, urban, social and...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we design, develop and adapt urban environments to better meet the needs and as...

Increasingly, public space provision and management are being transferred from the public sector to real estate developers, private sector organisa...

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment? Territorial Urbanism Now! calls for a ...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardA CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC, Magical Urbanism focuses on how Latinos are attempting to translate their urban de...

In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US ...

Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the worlds people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive,...

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space....

This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the enginee...

Climate change, rapid urbanisation, pandemics, as well as innovations in technologies such as blockchain, AI and IoT are all impacting urban space....

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Reconstructing Public Housing unea...

Boston 's economy has become defined by a disconcerting trend that has intensified throughout much of the United States since the 2008 recession. E...