Urban & Municipal Planning

Urban planning has always been a preeminent instrument of political power. In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insi...

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructu...

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructu...

This book provides the first extensive examination and analysis of the use of the urbanscape during the disaster process, by connecting its element...

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. The first volume of this h...

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...

On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. ...

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainab...

Knighted in 1998 for services to the Town and Country Planning Association, and in 2003 named by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Pioneer in the...

Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters se...

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment to...

For more than 35 years, planners have depended on The Planner's Use of Information to help them address their information needs. While the ability ...

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainab...

Its widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities the ...

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublins mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporat...

This volume focuses on the theory and practice of the regenerative development paradigm that is rapidly displacing sustainability as the most ferti...

Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed co...

Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshap...

Infrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interde...

The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world. The book provides perspectives...

Arguing that our laws are skewed to benefit entrenched homeowners, at the expense of newcomers and lower-income households, this book advocates bot...

Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and call fo...

Current planning and design modes of cities are facing challenges of philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and call fo...

From city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, Saving Stuyvesant Town is the incredible true story of how one middle class commun...

Stranger Citizens examines how foreign migrants who resided in the United States gave shape to citizenship in the decades after American independen...

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explor...

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design From a history of childrens rights to case studies d...

This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, ...

Jane Jacobs is universally recognized as one of the key figures in American urbanism. The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, sh...

This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means...

This edition of the World Cities Report seeks to provide greater clarity and insights into the future of cities based on existing trends, challenge...

Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place.   Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social sc...

Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place.   Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social sc...

Housing matters to people, be they owner, renter, housing provider, homeless individual, housing professional, or policymaker. Housing in the Unite...

Sustainable urban planning, policy and design professes to solve sustainability problems, but often depletes and degrades ever more resources and e...

Each year, 1.2 million people die from traffic fatalities, highlighting the need to design streets that offer safe and enticing travel choices for ...

The ways in which urban areas have evolved over the past 100 years have deeply influenced the lives of the communities that live in them. Some infl...

Explores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, h...

Explores the daily, lived effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a prominent neighborhood in New York City, h...

The Changing American Neighborhood argues that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and wel...