Urban & Municipal Planning

In an era of accelerating population growth, mass urbanization, and increasing pressure on the natural environment, the megacities of China's easte...

Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-tr...

We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically ret...

In recent times, we have all questioned whether we feel truly nurtured by where we live. With 68 per cent of the worlds population predicted to liv...

Published by the interdisciplinary design studio MODU, this reader explores the space between the interior and the exterior. How does the design of...

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive, and he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very ide...

Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy while undergoing rad...

Securing high-quality, affordable housing near the workplace poses a complex challenge for communities across urban America, and this book offers t...

Offers a comprehensive survey of affordable housing across the world. Presents numerous case-studies and best-practices on affordable housing desig...

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...

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...

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the ce...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

EUROPAN is an initiative that puts on competitions for young architects. Founded in 1989 and supported by 13 countries in the EU, it runs a competi...

The Nonprofit Almanac 2012 features the most recent data on the philanthropic sector, presented in more than 50 charts and 100 tables. Topics inclu...

Since the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, ...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...

In Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government, attorney and political science scholar Evan McKenzie explores emerging trends in p...

Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new ...

The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, trans...

For most, the term public space conjures up images of large, open areas where people congregate, socialize, and exchange thoughts and goods: the ...

What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Plann...

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the ...

As the world rapidly urbanizes, its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels - conduits for transport, utility, commu...

The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces...

Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthet...

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty ...