Urban & Municipal Planning

The third edition of a best-selling book on the Port Sunlight Village, with a new chapter on the Lady Lever Art Gallery, further information on key...

In cities around the world, digital technologies are utilized to manage city services and infrastructures, to govern urban life, to solve urban iss...

During the nineteenth century, Londons population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs...

Building on unique data, this book analyses the efficacy of a prominent climate change mitigation strategy: voluntary programs for sustainable buil...

Unlike European countries where the consolidation of town planning was based on legislative reforms, Latin Americas urbanismo mainly stemmed from u...

Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban pl...

Over the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erode public space, especially in emerging economies. Market forces that prioritise...

To attract investment and tourists and to enhance the quality of life of their citizens, municipal authorities are paying considerable attention to...

Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas. Today, however, ecological research has been taking p...

This book is about designing for food. It explores three fast transforming urban sites in London, centred on the regenerating spaces of Borough, Br...

Cities face critical challenges connected to population growth, urbanisation, and climate change. Fundamental transformations in urban planning, co...

Urban sprawl has radically transformed Southern European landscapes. Nowadays, sprawl is a major benefiting factor in the daily lives of thousands ...

From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the...

An incisive view of Torontos development over the last fifty years. In Toronto Reborn, Ken Greenberg describes the emerging contours of a new Tor...

From his role as Franklin Roosevelt's negro advisor to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development...

Sustainable City/Developing World (ISOCARP Review 06) addresses the challenges posed by climate change for the cities and urban regions of the deve...

This oversize, profusely illustrated book tells the story of the more than twentyfive- year history of cutting-edge architect Eric Moss's transform...