Urban & Municipal Planning

Since the 1990s beliefs, ideas or knowledge as well as processes of communicative interactions such as persuasion, argumentation and learning have ...

Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city p...

The growth of cities poses ever-increasing challenges for the natural environment on which they impact and depend, not only within their boundaries...

In the twentieth century, urban growth was one of the most powerful catalysts of geographical, social and demographic change in the Western world. ...

The Chair Eco-design of buildings and infrastructure, a partnership between three engineering colleges (MINES ParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech ...

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing ...

Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the ...

Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as p...

Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major demographic shifts in todays world. Architectural designs and urban policies have to dea...

There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. Howev...

Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments. This book is the first to provide a cohesive an...

Environmental protection is a global issue. But most of the action is happening at the local level. How can communities keep their air clean, their...

Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrin...

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urb...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

The majority of Americans live in suburbs and until about a decade or so ago, most suburbs had been assumed to be non-Hispanic White, affluent, and...

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanizatio...

Soil properties such as water retention, salinity and acidity are not just issues for agriculture and forestry. They are equally as significant in ...

At a time of potentially radical changes in the ways in which humans interact with their environments - through financial, environmental and/or soc...

This book offers state-of-the-art tools for thinking for urban designers, planners and decision-makers.Thematically it focuses on the contexts of p...

This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication c...

The urban-rural relationship in China is key to a sustainable global future. This book is particularly interested in peri-urbanization in China, th...

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research. Architects and spatial thinkers from the arts, social s...

Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy sol...