Urban & Municipal Planning

Authenticity resonates throughout the urbanizing world. As cities commercial corridors and downtowns start to look increasingly the same, and gentr...

On a planet where urbanization is rapidly expanding, nowhere is the growth more pronounced than in cities of the global South, and in particular, A...

As with so many facets of contemporary western life, architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product. The pre...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

Studies of compact cities have evolved along with the rising awareness of climate change and sustainable development. Relevant debates, however, re...

Urban Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Ireland is a wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays, which offers new insights on the Irish urban expe...

Singapore´s journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, lon...

Collective Impact as a tool to bring about community change has seen remarkable growth in usage since 2011. Collective Impact has been used success...

Liverpool Beyond the Brink is a fascinating commentary on the economic decline that caused the physical, social and political fragmentation of the ...

Historically, many architects, planners, and urban designers solicit idealistic depictions of a controllable urban environment made from highly reg...

As the world becomes more urbanised, solutions are required to solve current challenges for three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, ...

The Return of Nature asks you to critique your conception of nature and your approach to architectural sustainability and green design. What do the...

An instruction manual for change, Urban Beekeeping explores how we can adapt urban spaces to create a more sustainable future, both for bees and fo...

The city appears as an artefact, a more or less homogeneous technical ensemble, but also as a production of space, the privileged place where socia...

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It i...

Cities worldwide are at a crossroads, facing the pressing need to adapt to a rapidly changing environment. The impacts of climate change, economic ...

Our economic welfare and social well-being depend on our mobility. But our means of travel threaten the planet's sustainability. In this innovative...

In this handbook, 60 authors, senior and junior educators, and researchers from six continents provide an overview of 200 years of landscape archit...

Nestled amidst rolling hills, Shillong, the Himalayan capital city of Meghalaya in Indias northeast, faces a growing challenge of water scarcity. T...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, a...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, a...