Urban & Municipal Planning

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap. While previou...

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata offers an extended analysis of the architecture and urban planning of Kolkata from the earliest d...

The business districts of many metropolises worldwide share the same characteristics: monotonous office building façades, uninviting public spaces,...

- This is the first collection of a new Eureka Press series which reprints in facsimile the local town handbooks published in the nineteenth and ea...

Colonia Hermosa, now considered a suburb of Oaxaca, began as a squatter settlement in the 1950s. The original residents came in search of transfor...

The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institut...

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrificat...

Drawing upon the smart experiences of world class cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepren...

Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of ...

From tenements to alleyways to latrines, twentieth-century American cities created spaces where pests flourished and people struggled for healthy l...

In Retail and Social Change Steven Miles, presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of retail and how in both its material and virtua...

Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, es...

Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinar...

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offe...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.1201/9781315146638, has been made available under a Creat...

In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the loss of publicness of contemporary urban public places...

A multimedia exploration of the morphology of architecture in the American Southwest as defined by evolving modes of transportation. In examining a...

Southeast Asian modernity an overview Peter Rowe and Yun Fus second volume on the modernization of architecture in the Far East deals with Sout...

Korean modernity a defining overview The development of modern architecture in Korea and, more recently, South Korea, is closely tied to the coun...

Addis Ababa is one of the fastest transforming environments on the globe and a prototype of an emerging territory. What can architecture and urban ...

In 1960, Brasilia was celebrated as the realization of an urban planning vision based on designs by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. At the same tim...

Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other...

Since the mid-1990s, affect has become central to the social sciences and humanities. Debates abound over how to conceptualise affect, and how to u...

The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book. Space is conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through various con...

The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this globa...

New solutions to the way in which the resources within the city can be best used. Resources are the stuff of which the future is made. The city it...

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thin...

Many people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned nature based on the geometrical div...

Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire the Pyro...

Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores Global Asia and the metropolization process, specifically from i...

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

Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject a...

A number of U.S. cities, former manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest, have suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment...

Violent acts over the past fifteen years have profoundly altered civil rituals, cultural identity, and the meaning of place in Tel Aviv. Three eve...

In Urban Europe, urban researchers and practitioners based in Amsterdam tell the story of the European city, sharing their knowledge of and insight...

The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis ...

Aimed at students and instructors, alongside practitioners and researchers, in landscape architecture and its allied disciplinary fields, this book...

This edition of Critical Infrastructure presents a culmination of ongoing research and real-work experience, building upon previous editions. Since...

Among America's most complex planning environments, Indian country continues to face innumerable challenges to its community development. These fac...

One hundred years ago, the Addison Act created the circumstances for the large scale construction of municipal housing in the UK. This would lead t...

What makes a visually appealing landscape? How can the design and use of a landscape be harmonized? In this significantly revised and updated third...

Handbook of Township Management is a practice guide which highlights the key professional practices of township management in Singapore. It provide...

Handbook of Township Management is a practice guide which highlights the key professional practices of township management in Singapore. It provide...

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nations politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain ...