Urban & Municipal Planning

The future of humanity is urban. It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if th...

Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over ...

Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a s...

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instabilit...

A bold reassessment of smart cities that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanismsmar...

This follow-up volume A Guide to Planning for Community Character addresses actual designs in the three general classes of communities set forth in...

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chao...

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits ...

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

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call the progressive nonsense of the Big Socie...

This book reveals how the Aga Khan Development Network and its Historic Cities Programme transformed an area of Cairo's urban blight into a dynamic...

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

'City Riffs' traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also ...

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of natio...

This book aims to explore Berlin's ability not to trivialise new ideas and thus remain a leader in innovation. Berlin is a city that continues to...

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housings social ...

Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in...

A funny, snarky, and engaging guide to getting a better biking city.Urban designer Mikael Colville-Andersen draws from his experience working for d...

One of the issues of urban development and urban lifestyle, which can be studied from the sea to space, has posed important challenges for humaniti...

In The Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, pack...

What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or ...

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of usWho owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the ha...

There may be no single climate solution that has a greater breadth of benefits than mini-forests[and] can be done by everyone everywhere. Paul Hawk...

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of Americas faltering cities. Progressives claimed they kn...

Urban regeneration refers to projects that are designed to revitalise and improve the quality of areas in cities, involving an investment of privat...

The continuing rapid growth and development of Chinas cities brings many complex challenges. Tasked with supporting strong economic development tha...

The story recounted here--that of efforts in recent years to plan for Greater London--is both unique and important. It concerns a world metropolis ...

The story recounted here--that of efforts in recent years to plan for Greater London--is both unique and important. It concerns a world metropolis ...

The first edition of Making Healthy Places offered a visionary and thoroughly researched treatment of the connections between constructed environme...

In The Concrete Plateau, Andrew Grant examines the ways that urbanization has extended into the Tibetan Plateau. Many people still think of Tibetan...

Until recently, policy evaluation has mostly meant assessing whether government programs raise reading levels, decrease teen pregnancy rates, impro...

The Urban Nature maps aim to stimulate us to see the city differently and to explore its open spaces. It's a resource to encourage more awareness a...

Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within th...

Public Gardens and Livable Cities changes the paradigm for how we conceive of the role of urban public gardens. Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough, a...

Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within th...