Urban & Municipal Planning

Drawn from the Hoover Institutions Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issue...

The United States is over eighty percent urbanised, yet over half of the population still lives in suburban settings, characterised by low-density,...

This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and i...

A manual, monograph, and call to action, Toward an Urban Ecology points to the future of landscape architecture's role in making resilient, sustain...

The City: A Global Handbook provides succinct, expert-written articles needed by planners, designers, and any professional or student concerned abo...

Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economi...

The coming of the railways in the 1830s killed off the stage-coach trade; almost all rural roads reverted to low-level local use. Cyclists were the...

The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key...

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban iss...

During the nineteenth century, Londons population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs...

Building on unique data, this book analyses the efficacy of a prominent climate change mitigation strategy: voluntary programs for sustainable buil...

Unlike European countries where the consolidation of town planning was based on legislative reforms, Latin Americas urbanismo mainly stemmed from u...

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban pl...

Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies. Market forces that prioritise...

To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to...

Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas. Today, however, ecological research has been taking p...

This book is about designing for food. It explores three fast transforming urban sites in London, centred on the regenerating spaces of Borough, Br...

Cities face critical challenges connected to population growth, urbanisation, and climate change. Fundamental transformations in urban planning, co...

Urban sprawl has radically transformed Southern European landscapes. Nowadays, sprawl is a major benefiting factor in the daily lives of thousands ...

From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the...

An incisive view of Torontos development over the last fifty years. In Toronto Reborn, Ken Greenberg describes the emerging contours of a new Tor...

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's negro advisor to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

Sustainable City/Developing World (ISOCARP Review 06) addresses the challenges posed by climate change for the cities and urban regions of the deve...

This oversize, profusely illustrated book tells the story of the more than twentyfive- year history of cutting-edge architect Eric Moss's transform...

Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city for more than a decade. It is expanding outward while also growing ...

Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at...

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designe...

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wi...

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from c...

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. The sta...

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants...

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have ca...

Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border in Dearborn, but also was the ...

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive poli...