Urban & Municipal Planning

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experien...

This book discusses the management of waste in smart cities. It is a contemporary text that methodically covers a variety of waste types, including...

Architektur ist ein langwieriges Geschäft was heute gebaut wird, wurde schon vor Jahren geplant; was heute geplant wird, wird erst viel später geb...

This book discusses smart city implementation in 11 smart cities Auckland, Boston, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Melbourne, Milan, ...

Introduction to Residential Layout is ideal for students and practitioners of urban design, planning, engineering, architecture and landscape seeki...

This book is a compilation of chapters on scientific work in novel and innovative reference that compiles interdisciplinary perspectives about dive...

Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contrib...

This book is a compilation of chapters on scientific work in novel and innovative reference that compiles interdisciplinary perspectives about dive...

In todays world, deep learning source codes and a plethora of open access geospatial images are readily available and easily accessible. However, m...

This book works to build trust, consensus, and capacity to enhance understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster ...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider risky places. These can be facilities, nodes, o...

This book aims to address the issue of the effects that the contemporary environmental, technological, social and economic global challenges produc...

Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This ...

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input whil...

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to ca...

Enabling the City is a collaborative book that focuses on how interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary processes of knowledge production may contrib...

Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Mitigation and Adaptation focuses on the link between climate change threats and sustainable developmen...

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivit...

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the ...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and...

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. ...

Houses, and other spaces and environments in which people spend their time, have a crucial impact on quality of life. We are increasingly living in...

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and a...

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...

Over the last two decades new and significant demographic, economic, social and environmental changes and challenges have shaped the production and...

Urban and regional development in the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries has experienced rapid changes since their re-i...

The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, l...

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europes large cities. They are faced wi...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and h...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainabi...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobss legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs,...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour gove...

The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a ...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far bee...

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss ...