Urban & Municipal Planning

A journey through Europes old towns, exploring why we treasure thembut also what they hide about a continents fraught history  [A] fascinating chro...

Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses pri...

On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattans Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early riser...

Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to...

Our world is becoming more urban. More than fifty percent of the global population now lives in cities, which poses new challenges for sustainable ...

In this richly visual narrative, acclaimed historian Susan Schulten explores five centuries of American history through maps. From the voyages of E...

This book is an essential primer to help those involved in the planning process secure higher standards of urban design and the delivery of better ...

The Art of Building a Garden City is a well-researched guide to the history of the garden city movement and the delivery of a new generation of com...

With over half of the world's population now living in urban areas, the ability to model and understand the structure and dynamics of cities is bec...

Since antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yegül offer a compr...

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of ...

A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to re...

Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas...

American's landscape is undergoing a profound transformation as demand grows for a different kind of American Dream - smaller homes on smaller lots...

This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to ...

This trailblazing book outlines a tested interdisciplinary process model for urban design. Its goal is not to explain how to design a specific city...

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D....

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only ...

Advocating for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities, Urban Resilience stems from the two years experie...

Municipalities around the world face important water supply challenges. One response has been alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponent...

The United StatesIndia nuclear cooperation agreement to resume civilian nuclear technology trade with Indiaa non-signatory of the Nuclear Nonprolif...

This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial Ethiopia made in its journey towards urbanization into the modern era, and undertakes ...

Design professors detail a new ecodesign framework that integrates urban design with environmental conservation to make cities more desirable, low-...

How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problemspoverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic poll...

How do you achieve effective low-carbon design beyond the building level? How do you create a community that is both liveable and sustainable? More...

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games, including: simulatio...

Racial strife, increased social and economic discrimination, amplified political friction, and growing uncertainty around the impacts of the COVID-...

What is the role of citizens in urban development decision-making processes? In answer of this globally relevant question, Aline Delatte offers a c...

Today, more than 50% of the worlds population lives in cities and is subject to particular environmental and economic impacts against the backdrop ...

This book includes peer-reviewed articles from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Urban Development (ICSUD 2022), held at the Vietname...

Faith Made Flesh brings together the experience, insight, and stories of those actively addressing societal and educational disadvantages of Black ...

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of po...

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of po...

What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that ...

Play is essential, for children but also adults. It's how we relax and revitalise ourselves, build and maintain friendships, try new things, learn ...

This book presents a history of the struggle that has brought us to the present crisis. The way housing was organised in mid-twentieth century Brit...

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials. It introduces algorithmic approaches for mo...

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials. It introduces algorithmic approaches for mo...

An understanding of crop physiology and ecophysiology enables the horticulturist to manipulate a plants metabolism towards the production of compou...

Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways. However, unlike a conven...

Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound ways. However, unlike a conven...

This volume offers a novel study of the Milan-Cortina's Winter Olympics 2026, with a focus on the mountainous region of Valtellina. It brings an up...