Urban & Municipal Planning

Mindy Thompson Fullilove presents ways to strengthen neighborhood connectivity and empower marginalized communities through investigation of urban ...

Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of right...

The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattles architects by showcasing the work of those who...

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the worlds shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandywhich took hundreds of lives and caused many bil...

This collection of case studies by design educators critically explores the current practice of service-learning in architecture, landscape design,...

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress. The geography on and aro...

With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with ...

The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for re...

Australia has long been a highly (sub)urbanized nation, but the major distinctive feature of its contemporary settlement pattern is that the great ...

Almost a century since the idea of creating more humane more human-centric cities was brought to the fore, how far has mankind progressed towards...

Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed homeless capitals for having the largest homeless populations of their respective co...

There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for econom...

An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have f...

Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futu...

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...

This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on t...

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and othe...

This book contains the proceedings of the latest in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in...

The nations Latina/o population has now reached over 50 million, or 15% of the estimated total U.S. population of 300 million, and a growing portio...

City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes...

The origins of gentrification date back to World War Ionly it was sometimes known as remodeling then. Dennis Gales insightful book, TheMisunderstoo...