Urban & Municipal Planning

How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status? Sustainable ...

This volume is based on an international literature search of the best urban planning practices being used in dozens of cities around the world....

Formerly Urban is a collection of essays grounded in the belief that design, in all its manifestations, must play a central role in the revitalisat...

In the heady days of 1967 the Northern Ireland government announced the construction of an elevated, three-lane motorway encircling Belfast City Ce...

Be it in our home or workplace, we are becoming increasingly accustomed to enjoying the maximum comfort levels. To make the indoor environment as p...

Raising the Roof addresses one of the key issues of our era - the UK's housing crisis. Housing costs in the United Kingdom are among the highest on...

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...

This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and i...

Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities we encounter a peculiar...

The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urba...

Big government, big business, big everything: Kirkpatrick Sale took giantism to task in his 1980 classic, Human Scale, and today takes a new look a...

Books about history using real life memories recorded specifically for the purpose are rare, Live, Work & Play is just such a book. Created fro...

What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just betw...

Community development both a collective effort and an achievement driven by individual facilitators with the aim of lifting a community out of pove...

New initiatives, ideas and products change the way we relate to one another and to our environment, as well as the way we define and fulfil our nee...

How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing ...

In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legitimate form of transportation. City officials ar...