Urban & Municipal Planning

Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New ...

Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a big...

During the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision t...

Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of...

While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing...

Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longh...

Widely recognized as one of the most accurate forecasts for commercial real estate trends, the new iteration of this established series offers info...

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them a...

Common sense solutions for affordable housing that is truly affordable Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major...

Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems requires a conceptual leap. T...

By addressing the critical nexus between a green economy and international trade, this report responds to the calls made by world leaders at Rio+20...

Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated area...

In the twenty years since its original publication, The Ghosts of Berlin has become a classic, an unparalleled guide to understanding the presence ...

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...

Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? ...

The guidance aims to assist Parties in more effectively mitigating the effects of possible industrial accidents and the consequences on human healt...

A fresh perspective on the global economic influences that shaped modern Egypt through the history of an affluent Cairo suburb, MaadiIn the early y...

Rising housing costs put secure and decent housing in central urban neighborhoods in peril. How do civil society organizations (CSOs) effectively d...

Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slo...

Cutting-edge analysis on how to improve life inside the Gaza Strip through architecture and design, illustrated in full-colorThe Gaza Strip is one ...

Mass housing and urban planning constitute a key element of the material foundation of North Korea. In the post-war era, the country attempted to s...

A potent re-examination of Americas history of public disinvestment in mass transit.   Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dep...

As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and conte...

Mindy Thompson Fullilove presents ways to strengthen neighborhood connectivity and empower marginalized communities through investigation of urban ...

Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of right...

The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattles architects by showcasing the work of those who...

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the worlds shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandywhich took hundreds of lives and caused many bil...

This collection of case studies by design educators critically explores the current practice of service-learning in architecture, landscape design,...

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and aro...

With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with ...

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for re...

Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great ...

Almost a century since the idea of creating more humane more human-centric cities was brought to the fore, how far has mankind progressed towards...

Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed homeless capitals for having the largest homeless populations of their respective co...

There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for econom...

An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have f...

Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futu...

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...

This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on t...

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and othe...

This book contains the proceedings of the latest in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in...

The nations Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15% of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portio...

City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes...

The origins of gentrification date back to World War Ionly it was sometimes known as remodeling then. Dennis Gales insightful book, TheMisunderstoo...