Urban & Municipal Planning

The private rental housing market plays an important and growing role in the advanced economies. Providing accommodation for a wider range of house...

The private rental housing market plays an important and growing role in the advanced economies. Providing accommodation for a wider range of house...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

A thorough description of a built environments life cycle (brief; design; raw material extraction, transport and processing; construction materials...

It did not take long for the two megacities of Beijing and Shanghai to embrace the fashion of culture-led urban regeneration. Forerunner is the cas...

Recent research has demonstrated how gentrification and urban redevelopment can serve to promote and exacerbate socio-spatial stigmatisation direct...

This new and comprehensive story of instrumental conservationist Pearl Chases fascinating life is a tribute to her remarkable achievements. Spendin...

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction, walk to a res...

Outdoor Environments for People addresses the everyday human behavior in outdoor built environments and explains how designers can learn about and ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The City of Mariupols heroic defence and systematic destruction at the beginning of the Russian invasion have made it an international symbol of se...

This book positions Ulaanbaatar as a unique case and one that allows us to view our urban world differently. Operating as a primordial soup of emer...

Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildi...

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new for...

'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool...

The Festival of Britain is perhaps best known for its South Bank Exhibition promoting British science and art to the post-war world, but one of the...

When cash-strapped local governments fail to provide adequate services, and planning policies prioritize economic development over community needs,...

Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotl...

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

Temporary urban uses innovative ways to transform cities or new means to old ends? The scale and variety of temporary or meanwhile or interim ur...

George Perkins Marsh Prize, American Society for Environmental HistoryVSNY Book Award, New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in Am...

Degrowth, a type of postgrowth, is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond c...

Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many ...

Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on ...

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already...

Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles poss...

Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions is about environmental quality and the long term livability of urban areas. In decades t...

Public Consultation and Community Involvement in Planning is the definitive introduction to public consultation for developers, students and planne...

This book investigates what the history of Hong Kongs urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and...

More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major poli...

Discover how one spectacular building project transformed Miami from a fractious tropical city to a cultural capital of the Americas. In Center of ...

Institutions the state, the church, the army, the judiciary, the university, the bank, etc. organise social relations. As social structures, they ...

Amid Japans political turbulence in 1960, seven architects and designers founded Metabolism to propagate radical ideas of urbanism. Kenz Tanges Pla...

Economic corridorsambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertakingare dramatical...

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposalfrom burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in s...

Generally, textbooks on urban geography and urban planning are based on ideas laid out in the west and are unable to explicitly connect those ideas...