Urban & Municipal Planning

Offers a comprehensive survey of affordable housing across the world. Presents numerous case-studies and best-practices on affordable housing desig...

The Urban Nature maps aim to stimulate us to see the city differently and to explore its open spaces. It's a resource to encourage more awareness a...

The Urban Nature maps aim to stimulate us to see the city differently and to explore its open spaces. It's a resource to encourage more awareness a...

Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the ce...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

EUROPAN is an initiative that puts on competitions for young architects. Founded in 1989 and supported by 13 countries in the EU, it runs a competi...

The Nonprofit Almanac 2012 features the most recent data on the philanthropic sector, presented in more than 50 charts and 100 tables. Topics inclu...

Since the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, ...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...

In Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government, attorney and political science scholar Evan McKenzie explores emerging trends in p...

Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new ...

The city in the twenty-first century faces major challenges, including social and economic stratification, wasteful consumption of resources, trans...

For most, the term public space conjures up images of large, open areas where people congregate, socialize, and exchange thoughts and goods: the ...

What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Plann...

In Urban Lowlands, Steven T. Moga looks closely at the Harlem Flats in New York City; Black Bottom in Nashville; Swede Hollow in St. Paul; and the ...

As the world rapidly urbanizes, its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels - conduits for transport, utility, commu...

The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces...

Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthet...

In 1970, Richard Sennett published the groundbreaking The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed. Fifty ...