Urban & Municipal Planning

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

Soil properties such as water retention, salinity and acidity are not just issues for agriculture and forestry. They are equally as significant in ...

At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or soc...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication c...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, th...

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts, social s...

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy sol...

The Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this...

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materi...

This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offe...

This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modeled and optimized. Starting ...

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate...

People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned ne...

Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and l...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

The San Francisco Bay Area is generally considered the most expensive regional housing market in the country. Because the region added jobs and res...

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today, half the world's population is urb...

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian citiesdeveloped and developing, large and smalland their urban development. Inve...

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the As...

This book analyses case studies of heritage-rich cities that hosted mega-events to discuss emerging challenges, controversies, and accomplishments....

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of prac...

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern O...

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process? Author Doug Kent, an environmental specialist, b...

GIS projects have previously been viewed primarily as technical exercises, but it is now evident that the success of GIS projects depends as much o...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

This book presents gender and diversity in smart transport as a cutting-edge issue in urban contexts around the globe.It addresses new challenges a...

This book presents gender and diversity in smart transport as a cutting-edge issue in urban contexts around the globe.It addresses new challenges a...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transf...

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technolog...

Building information modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyse, and display a digital representa...

Chinas Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) is an ambitious infrastructure project conceived in 2013 by President Xi Jinping with development and invest...

This book is a great opportunity to make the research community discuss the dangerous environmental challenges such as climate change and its huge ...

This open access book is a proceeding of the International Conference on Urban Climate, Sustainability, and Urban Design in Mianyang (MYUCSUD). Thi...

This book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely...

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select proj...

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contempor...

Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools addresses the initial encounters between landscape designer and landscape site, an enc...

Faced with acute housing shortages, the idea of new garden cities and suburbs is on the UK planning agenda once again, but what of the garden subur...

Markets, Politics and the Environment answers three groups of question: What is planning? and as part of this What are its key features as a st...

This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India in terms of the physical, economic, social, political, and environme...