Urban & Municipal Planning

Under the influence of globalization, the centres of many cities in the industrialised world are losing their place identity, the set of cultural m...

Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesth...

In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux...

Within the concept of the 'sustainable city' nothing is fixed, mapped or agreed upon. To some, the term encompasses innovation, change and commitme...

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in...

This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific pl...

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of...

Jaqueline Tyrwhitts life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role ...

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most comp...

Siting Noxious Facilities explains and illustrates processes and criteria used to site noxious manufacturing and waste management facilities. It pr...

Housing problems have become increasingly complex in the Global South. An increased pressure to upgrade older stock, to provide adequate infrastruc...

Northern Ireland has a complex urbanism with multilayered socio-spatial politics. In this environment, issues of communication, self-representation...

In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the M...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe. How it is defined, implemented and measured at the local le...

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their percept...

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes mel...

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon elec...

Virtually every city-region in West and Central Europe has developed policies and strategies to attract, retain and encourage creative industries a...

Drawing upon theories of landscape and performance, this work weaves together existing tourism literature with new scholarship to forge a geographi...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity...

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and eco...

Now that your planning degree is in sight or in hand, how and where can you find your dream job? Once you're on the job, what can you do to not jus...

With increasing population and its associated demand on our limited resources, we need to rethink our current strategies for construction of multif...

This volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, senti...

This book provides a critical understanding of the challenges that exist in protecting the local and global environment through compliance efforts ...

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confr...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

With the rise of shared and networked vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and other transportation technologies, technological change is outpacing urban...

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the global(i...

This book presents an architectural overview of Dublins mass-housing building boom from the 1930s to the 1970s. During this period, Dublin Corporat...

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially a...

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences. Many colleges ...

This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner,...

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban So...

Cities in the 21st Century provides an overview of contemporary urban development. Written by more than thirty major academic specialists from diff...

The author explains why it's essential to begin the preparations by deciding what the meeting is intended to accomplish. That, in turn, determines ...

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.It de...

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use plan...

The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geo...

This book demonstrates how agriculture can play a determining role in integrated, climate-optimised urban development. Agriculture within urban gro...

Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of confli...

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to t...

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north Indi...

This book presents an in-depth look at US infrastructure and its challenges in the 21st century. While infrastructure has received considerable att...