Urban & Municipal Planning

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric centered on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-cla...

Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturall...

Cities are in a constant process of change and are the theater of interaction among people and their complex, historically multi-layered, culturall...

Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidanc...

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...

This volume outlines the urban development of eight cities in the Middle East and North Africa: Aleppo, Alexandria, Ankara, Cairo, Casablanca, Duba...

Living in a world beset by rising sea level, floods in urban and suburban areas, air pollution, and food security risks, it is urgent to mitigate t...

The Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of architecture, landscape arch...

Journalist and urban analyst James Russell argues that we'll slow global warming more quickly - and blunt its effects - by retrofitting cities, sub...

Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, ...

How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that l...

This is an updated look at the advantages and possibilities of urban agriculture in public spaces. Why plant trees that only provide shade when the...

Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how ...

This is the first book designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop Climate Act...

There are few more powerful questions than, Where are you from or Where do you live? People feel intensely connected to cities as places and to oth...

Scientist Robert McDonald details fundamentals of how to integrate natural infrastructure with urban planning to create resilient and liveable citi...

Robert Brown helps us see that a 'thermally comfortable microclimate' is the very foundation of well-designed and well-used outdoor places. Brown a...

15-minute city, noun: a city that is designed so that everyone who lives there can reach everything they need within 15 minutes on foot or by bike ...

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure ordersand depends onmultiple urban temporalities. This agenda-setting vo...

This set of three books is based on the research of the Morphocity multidisciplinary team on the description, analysis and Numerical Modeling of Mo...

An unprecedented look at the central role one man played in the transformation of New York City Daniel L. Doctoroff served as New York Citys Deputy...

Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to redevelopment practices in Moscow and consequent changes in citys govern...

East London has undergone dramatic changes over the last 30 years, primarily as a result of London's large scale de-industrialisation and the rise ...

Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cuttingedge of critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment to interdi...

A model city, the hope of democracy John Nolen on his suggested plans for Madison, WisconsinThis book connects John Nolen's political and social v...

This book presents an evidence-based approach to landscape planning and design for urban blue spaces that maximises the benefits to human health an...

A groundbreaking work of scholarship that sheds critical new light on the urban renewal of Paris under Napoleon IIIIn the mid-nineteenth century, N...

A cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures.   What would it take to m...