Urban & Municipal Planning

Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional ...

The application of technology, in smart cities, to create meaningful sustainability is set to change all our lives. The smart city of the future wi...

Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produc...

Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood. Fully revised with important new policy, case studies and international analysis...

Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood. Fully revised with important new policy, case studies and international analysis...

Local regeneration, and action on local issues, is fundamental to the sustainability of local communities. This is especially the case in the UK, w...

A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration i...

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanizat...

Globalization has been built upon, and maintained by, major urban centers. As the interconnections among these cities grow, more cities become invo...

The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of informatio...

Sustainable Design for the Built Environment marks the transition of sustainable design from a specialty service to the mainstream approach for cre...

Amman, the capital of Jordan, contends with a crisis of identity rooted in how it grew to become a symbol for the Anglo-Hashemite government first,...

Governments, communities, and developers are considering the use of ICT, renewable energies, and a host of other technologies to build smart cities...

How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by world cities and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomera...

The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level Fully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Co...

How do trees help reduce violence? What do roads have to do with chronic disease? Prevention Diaries examines the unexpected yet empirically predic...

On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its ele...

Comprehensive learning resource providing a framework for successful application of advanced transportation technologies in urban areas Smart Mobil...

This book focuses on the city of Barcelona, specifically in regards to its grid-style design. The author proposes a number of original intervention...

Bringing together theoretical and empirical research from 22 countries in Europe, North America, Australia, South America and Japan, this book offe...

Urban regeneration is currently taking place in inner-city Johannesburg. This book presents an alternative, multi-layered account for reading the p...

Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexitie...

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and percept...

It shows London as the worlds first National Park City. The massive map includes all of the parks, woodlands, playing fields, nature reserves, city...

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North Am...

An investigation of the practice of commoning in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying citi...

The perceived failure of late Twentieth Century place-making led to a rethink among urban designers that today puts sustainability at the heart of ...