Urban & Municipal Planning

A major paradigm shift is taking place in Korea. The previous system of area rehabilitation, which involved the demolition of entire urban district...

They demolish our houses while we build theirs. This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described...

Vertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.Today we live in a world th...

EUROPAN is an initiative supported by nine European countries, which stages a bi-annual competition for young architects, landscape and urban desig...

Egypt has placed its hopes on developing its vast and empty deserts as the ultimate solution to the country's problems. New cities, new farms, new ...

In short, following Marshall McLuhans famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the medium of research. This involves r...

Often misunderstood, the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists, artists, visionaries, and the promise of a new beginning for millions ...

Water and Asphalt proposes a project of extended requalification for the territories of settlement dispersion and diffusion; a project on a territo...

Le continent europeen se caracterise par une forte densite en organisations intergouvernementales competentes dans le domaine de la securite. Ces d...

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro is 'simply one of the best non-fiction books in English of the last forty years' (Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Time...

In Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Lynne A. Weikart dives into the mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg, offering an incisive analysis of Bloomberg's policies d...

Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty. A...

In Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City's story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made th...

City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...

In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global citiesSingapore, Sydney, and Dubaiand the p...

The years before the First World War saw the development of a widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at affordable rents thro...

Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many ...

New York Politics examines aspects of state government that are often hidden in the secret sessions of the parties' legislative conferences: the cl...

New York Politics examines aspects of state government that are often hidden in the secret sessions of the parties' legislative conferences: the cl...

In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to the world's toughest drainage problem, renowned geographer Richard Campanella recoun...

This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggl...

Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary poli...

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. The sta...

The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard''s visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto...

The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusin...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What can underground pipes tell us abou...