Urban & Municipal Planning

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...

This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-rangin...

This title was first published in 2003. Schumpeter first put forward the premise that the incessant turbulence of an economy in motion, carrying ou...

This book is focused on the street-naming politics, policies and practices that have been shaping and reshaping the semantic, textual and visual en...

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...

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The...

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformati...

Historical studies on the involvement of architecture in twentieth-century politics have overlooked its contribution to building Spains democracy. ...

Originally published in 1986 Holford is not just a biography of a major architect, planner and civic designer. In describing the life and times of ...

APA's popular primer for citizens is all new! For decades, planning officials and engaged citizens have relied on this book for a better understand...

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The con...

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive ...

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in todays world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consi...

This book provides the tools to maintain and rebuild the interaction between architecture and public space. Despite the best intentions of designer...

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this ...

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This guide explains neighborhood planning for both ci...

The authors classic text focuses on the development of cities and how they have been planned and managed through the ages. The tie between land use...

This title was first published in 2001. The hierarchical approach of regional planning institutions is facing crisis. In an era of globalization, t...

Planning at a metropolitan scale is important for effective management of urban growth, transportation systems, air quality, and watershed and gree...

Drone Futures explores new paradigms in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in landscape and urban design. UAS or drones can be deployed with direct ap...

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgeta...

First published in 1985, this book presents seven games for use in the teaching and study of planning, urban studies or land administration. These ...

Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of t...

This book examines the role of the multinational firms in processes of European integration. It is primarily concerned with the implications of mar...

Since the 1990s beliefs, ideas or knowledge as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have ...

Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city p...

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries...

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. ...