Urban & Municipal Planning

In the face of continuing challenges of urban decline, an increasing local policy activism can be observed in a number of European countries. The i...

The fully updated Short Guide to Town and Country Planning provides a concise introductory overview of the practice of planning for those with litt...

While global urban development increasingly takes on the mantle of sustainability and green urbanism, both the ecological and equity impacts of the...

Cities are where the majority of people in the world live. As such, it is critically important to understand cities when seeking to address quality...

Reform has long been a consensus in China, but after decades of rapid growth, there still remain numerous intractable barriers and institutional co...

Joan Nelson elucidates the implications of this rapid growth and concomitant poverty for politics. Unlike many scholars who have sought an all-enco...

Illuminates the path to more generative urban transitions in Africa's cities and developing rural areas Africa is the world's most rapidly urbanizi...

Illuminates the path to more generative urban transitions in Africa's cities and developing rural areas Africa is the world's most rapidly urbanizi...

The private rental housing market plays an important and growing role in the advanced economies. Providing accommodation for a wider range of house...

The private rental housing market plays an important and growing role in the advanced economies. Providing accommodation for a wider range of house...

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept...

A thorough description of a built environments life cycle (brief; design; raw material extraction, transport and processing; construction materials...

It did not take long for the two megacities of Beijing and Shanghai to embrace the fashion of culture-led urban regeneration. Forerunner is the cas...

Recent research has demonstrated how gentrification and urban redevelopment can serve to promote and exacerbate socio-spatial stigmatisation direct...

This new and comprehensive story of instrumental conservationist Pearl Chases fascinating life is a tribute to her remarkable achievements. Spendin...

If your doorstep were a trailhead, how would you experience your city? With this newfound freedom, you might head in a new direction, walk to a res...

Outdoor Environments for People addresses the everyday human behavior in outdoor built environments and explains how designers can learn about and ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

The City of Mariupols heroic defence and systematic destruction at the beginning of the Russian invasion have made it an international symbol of se...

This book positions Ulaanbaatar as a unique case and one that allows us to view our urban world differently. Operating as a primordial soup of emer...

Fire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildi...

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new for...

'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool...

The Festival of Britain is perhaps best known for its South Bank Exhibition promoting British science and art to the post-war world, but one of the...

When cash-strapped local governments fail to provide adequate services, and planning policies prioritize economic development over community needs,...