Urban & Municipal Planning

Designing for Cycle Traffic compares and evaluates international principles and practices for designing for cycle traffic. It sets design for cycli...

In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cut...

Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what con...

Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This bo...

The form and layout of a built environment has a significant influence on crime by creating opportunities for it and, in turn, shaping community cr...

Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book r...

This book concerns the relationship between urban planning (and similar things) on the one hand, and war, natural disaster and societal or politica...

The key theme of the papers in this book concerns the prospects of building new urban environments and creating new societies in Europe during the ...

Why are public toilets so crappy? An eye-opening look at how public toilets are letting us all down and why this is a political, not just personal ...

Levine, Grengs, and Merlin marshal a compelling case to shift to accessibility-oriented planning, providing much needed conceptual clarity as to wh...

Until the 1980s, Vancouver was a typical mid-sized North American city. But between Expo 86 and the Olympic Games in 2010, something extraordinary ...

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of c...

Human settlements are the result of a mix of self-organisation and planning. Planners are fighting a losing battle to impose order on chaotic syste...

Urban planners have paid more attention to the concept of the pocket park as modern cities become denser and buildings taller. As the pace of urban...

Since the instigation of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Emscher Park (1989-1999), the Ruhr area has been a pioneer for the transformat...

*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.* ...

Traditional country parks, which originated in the United Kingdom, are very different to the country parks we know today. With the development of u...

'Green space in the community' refers to the public space that is located in sections of residential land, often a space providing entertainment fa...

A major social and political phenomenon of how a community overcame overwhelming opposition and obstacles to build the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Stret...

Water as a resource is irreplaceable. Yet heavy rainfall can become an absolute disaster - even in modern cities - if rainwater is not drained out ...

Landscape is not only the visible material surface of places but also refers to ways of interpreting fluid or contested social relations and spatia...

Once a blue-collar outpost, Seattle, home to Microsoft, Amazon, and hundreds of startups, transformed into one of the worlds major innovation hubs ...

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the w...

For centuries the garden has served as a central element in Muslim culture. In that tradition, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has been rehabilitati...

What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers w...

How will automated vehicles change our lives? Where are the opportunities and challenges? Future streets require planning today. This timely book e...