Urban & Municipal Planning

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...

Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of single industry towns, which emer...

In Land Use Planning and the Environment, the authors have dramatically revised and updated a classic, seminal casebook, Land-Use Planning. Designe...

In their unrelenting drive to create a thriving desert metropolis, leaders of the most populous city in the arid Southwest, Phoenix, Arizona, seeme...

The book takes off with a general overview which is an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. The next chapter is an analysis of the patte...

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the way...

This book''''s objective is to present a comprehensive, theoretical, practical, and adaptive approach to understanding the issues involved in eco-c...