Urban & Municipal Planning

Melbourne has had the fastest-growing population of any Australian capital city for more than a decade. It is expanding outward while also growing ...

Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at...

Why are so many of our urban environments so resistant to change? The author tackles this question in her comprehensive guide for planners, designe...

The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wi...

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from c...

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. The sta...

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants...

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asiamassive, privately built planned urban developments that have ca...

Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border in Dearborn, but also was the ...

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive poli...

Since the smart component became one of the pillars of the European Unions development, many cities, particularly post-socialist ones, have perceiv...

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living condit...

Tokyo's seemingly endless sea of buildings has grown incrementally over the past centuries, leading to an urban condition that is both coherent and...

How do we prepare for and manage the challenges and the transformations that are increasingly confronting cities? Solutions are necessary for the i...