Urban & Municipal Planning

How and why do spectacular buildings get commissioned and procured? What are their visible urban effects? What can urban planners, architects, and ...

The idea of a Greater London emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar trac...

A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration i...

Blackpool is Britains favourite seaside resort. Each year millions of visitors come to walk on its three piers, ride donkeys, enjoy shows at the Wi...

Today, there are more than three parking spaces for every car in the United States. No one likes searching for a space, but in many areas, there is...

With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of the...

The first history of the bulldozer and its transformation from military weapon to essential tool for creating the postWorld War II American landsca...

With three billion more humans projected to be living in cities by 2050, all design is increasingly urban design. And with as much data now produce...

Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floa...

Throughout the world, city planners and governments grapple with the challenges of urban planning using remarkably similar land use regimes. Yet th...

Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Indiv...

In urban planning, a brownfield is a former industrial or commercial site where environmental contamination hinders development. They exist in a...

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventi...

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

In Chicago's Industrial Decline Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and ...

Every year Americans spend over 182 billion public and private dollars on services and supports for chronically disabled elders. This is projected ...

After sixty years and fifteen editions and reprints in Italy, this classic, groundbreaking work in the field of historical urban studies is now pub...

How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea...

North Shields and Tynemouth today, like most towns and cities, are products of history. Their shops, offices, residential areas, transport and leis...

Designing for Cycle Traffic compares and evaluates international principles and practices for designing for cycle traffic. It sets design for cycli...

In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cut...

Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what con...

Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This bo...

The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community cr...

Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book r...

This book concerns the relationship between urban planning (and similar things) on the one hand, and war, natural disaster and societal or politica...

The key theme of the papers in this book concerns the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the ...

Why are public toilets so crappy? An eye-opening look at how public toilets are letting us all down and why this is a political, not just personal ...

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to wh...

Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But between Expo 86 and the Olympic Games in 2010, something extraordinary ...

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of c...

Human settlements are the result of a mix of self-organisation and planning. Planners are fighting a losing battle to impose order on chaotic syste...

Urban planners have paid more attention to the concept of the pocket park as modern cities become denser and buildings taller. As the pace of urban...

Since the instigation of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Emscher Park (1989-1999), the Ruhr area has been a pioneer for the transformat...

*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.* ...

Traditional country parks, which originated in the United Kingdom, are very different to the country parks we know today. With the development of u...