Urban & Municipal Planning

Universities and colleges often operate between two worlds: higher education and economic systems. With a mission rooted in research, teaching, and...

Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of ...

The evolution of sustainability, with a practical framework for integration Regenerative Development and Design takes sustainability to the next le...

At a moment when the world's population increasingly lives in urban settings, the public health of cities-or the intersection of stress and wellnes...

Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book e...

Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other majo...

Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform e...

Over the past decade, cities have come into closer contact and conflict with new technologies. From reactive policymaking in response to platform e...

As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old ...

Between 1979 and 1989, rural life in China was transformed: the communes were dismantled, tiny family farms were created, government domination of ...

What effects does digitization have on architecture? What role does artificial intelligence play in designing urban spaces? And how does this chang...

Unmarked on maps and largely unnoticed by urban design, architecture, and planning communities, Combat Cities have quietly spread throughout the we...

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway ...

What is required to renew and articulate public spaces? The need for, and demands of, public spaces are highly specific to the local spatial and so...

As human and machine agency become increasingly intermingled and digital media is overlaid onto the urban landscape, The machinic city argues that ...

From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold WarDuring the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous featu...

Examining Chicago as a model for urban economic development in the post–World War II era, Joel Rast challenges the conventional belief that structu...

Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of...

In the late 1990s, planning authorities in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi pushed the imaginary line between city and country several kilometres we...

In the 1980s and ’90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, such as gas, telephones, and highways—wi...

What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Mane...