Urban & Municipal Planning

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the ...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and...

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. ...

Houses, and other spaces and environments in which people spend their time, have a crucial impact on quality of life. We are increasingly living in...

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and a...

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...

Over the last two decades new and significant demographic, economic, social and environmental changes and challenges have shaped the production and...

Urban and regional development in the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries has experienced rapid changes since their re-i...

The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, l...

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europes large cities. They are faced wi...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and h...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure devel...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainabi...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobss legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs,...

First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a l...

English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour gove...

The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a ...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far bee...

More than half of the world population now lives in cities, and urban expansion continues as rural people move to cities. This results in the loss ...

In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased...

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a co...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...

Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better tha...

For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of thos...

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power t...

The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...