Urban & Municipal Planning

Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typically understood as a story...

Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typically understood as a story...

From the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, New York, Paris, and London changed profoundly in physical appearance, social makeup, and politics. Her...

With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of...

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Thro...

Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Thro...

A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative post...

Starting with the colonial period, but focusing especially on the Progressive era, Richard Foglesong offers both a narrative account and a theoreti...

Starting with the colonial period, but focusing especially on the Progressive era, Richard Foglesong offers both a narrative account and a theoreti...

Urban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces. A...

The first edition of Shaping Seattle Architecture, published in 1994, introduced readers to Seattle’s architects by showcasing the work of those wh...

This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production ...

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view...

Cities have taken a leading role in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As federal and state climate policy waxes and wanes, many of the la...

A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into d...

A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into d...

An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have f...

"Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940" reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred co...

Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems The American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, go...

A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a boo...