Urban & Municipal Planning

The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard''s visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto...

The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusin...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. What can underground pipes tell us abou...

The future of humanity is urban. It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if th...

Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over ...

Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a s...

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instabilit...

A bold reassessment of smart cities that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanismsmar...

This follow-up volume A Guide to Planning for Community Character addresses actual designs in the three general classes of communities set forth in...

How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chao...

Key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts for understanding smart cities, along with discussions of both drawbacks and benefits ...

They demolish our houses while we build theirs. This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, describ...

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call the progressive nonsense of the Big Socie...

This book reveals how the Aga Khan Development Network and its Historic Cities Programme transformed an area of Cairo's urban blight into a dynamic...

Lee Kuan Yew once described the opportunity to remake Singapore as 'a chance of a lifetime'. This book explores Lee's pivotal role in Singapore's u...

'City Riffs' traces the changing perspectives of urban design within an ever-changing global context. Moving between sixteen cities, the book also ...

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of natio...

This book aims to explore Berlin's ability not to trivialise new ideas and thus remain a leader in innovation. Berlin is a city that continues to...

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housings social ...

Working in rural China is unlike other countryside: it is full of contradiction, neither rural nor urban, both traditional and modern, abandoned in...

A funny, snarky, and engaging guide to getting a better biking city.Urban designer Mikael Colville-Andersen draws from his experience working for d...

One of the issues of urban development and urban lifestyle, which can be studied from the sea to space, has posed important challenges for humaniti...

In The Human City, internationally recognized urbanist Joel Kotkin challenges the conventional urban-planning wisdom that favors high-density, pack...

What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or ...