Urban & Municipal Planning

This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses...

New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable pull of the city even as they lament the demise of rural America

Containing the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability this book addresses the multi-disciplinary ...

Climate change, increasing resource scarcity, and rising traffic volumes are forcing us to develop new environmentally friendly and people-oriented...

This book is about changing the way we do public administration. It is about the wielding of administrative discretion in the implementation of a c...

The relationship between human beings and the urban environment is a topic increasing in relevance. Most of the people in the world live in an urba...

Practical how-to information for conservation-minded urban-planning professionals is provided in this invaluable guide. The importance of natural l...

The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt in major cities across the world. Since the 2012 Olympics wa...

Infinite Suburbia is the culmination of the MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism''s year-long study of the future of suburban devel...

These four volumes present a series of thematic explorations of key developments and debates on the topic of cities and city life in a post-modern ...

With contributions from international academics and practitioners, this International Conference of the British Land Reclamation Society, addresses...

Grouping a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, this book refers to all aspects of ...

'Fascinating ... compelling ... very funny' Sunday Times'A defiant call to arms ... affecting ... lingers long in the memory after its final page' ...

What does it mean to design democratic cities and democratic citizens in a time of mass urbanization and volatile political transformation? Citizen...

The Treaty of Paris in 1898 initiated Americas administration of the Philippines. By 1905, Manila had been replanned and the city of Baguio built a...

This is a book about four cities which were several times, and especially in connection with World War II, forcedly, put into completely new nation...

If you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three-acre amusement park once sat ...

This presentation of the life and work of the architect Stephen Paraskevopoulos, professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Michi...

Urban planning professionals around the globe are confronted with a multitude of challenges and problems as a result of economic, environmental and...