Urban & Municipal Planning

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...

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial huband th...

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challeng...

This book is the first and, so far, only publication to elaborate on all the stages of one of the many Urban Regeneration projects implemented in T...

This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on ...

This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities acro...

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

The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and...

Altruism by Design: How to Effect Social Change as an Architect is meant to prepare the individual designer whether a student or practicing profes...

This book brings together the latest thinking in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and considers the key question of whether the processes a...

People who live in compact, traditional towns have far smaller environmental footprints than those who live in sprawling suburbs. So why are we in ...