Urban & Municipal Planning

After 1945 it was not just Europes parliamentary buildings that promised to house democracy: hotels in Turkey and Dutch shopping malls proposed new...

This book is for the well-meaning idealists city planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers who are frustrated working within the ...

To best serve current and future generations, infrastructure needs to be resilient to the changing world while using limited resources in a sustain...

This volume explains the board's responsibilities and the limits of its power; discusses common types of zoning cases; provides model rules of proc...

The 1960s and the 1970s marked a generational shift in architectural discourse at a time when the revolts inside universities condemned the academi...

Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increas...

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to tho...

This book has one central theme: how, in the United Kingdom, can we create better cities and towns in which to live and work and play? What can we ...

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies...

Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting. D...

In Asia, there are a growing number of gigantic megacities, accompanied by a series of speculative and extravagant megaprojects. Amid the fast-pace...

This book assembles cutting edge contemporary research and thinking on multiple forms and meanings of displacements and their geographies: patterns...

Architecture and the Housing Question examines how the design and provision of housing around the world have become central both to competing polit...

Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and co...

Istanbul: Informal Settlements and Generative Urbanism analyzes two informal housing settlements in Istanbul, Turkey Karanfilköy and Fatih Sultan ...

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning ...

Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is s...

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

Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Fore...

Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church ...

Achieving a sustainable society is the biggest issue of our time. It is not an issue confined to a particular subject area or to certain jobs. It i...

Originally published in 1971, this volume contains papers invited for a conference on economic research relevant to national urban development held...

This advice note illustrates the application of the policies set out in the NPPF in determining applications for planning permission and listed bui...

The Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education engenders a discourse on how urban planning as a discipline i...

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities. It focuses on the role of globalizati...

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of ...

Bringing together case studies ranging across the globe, including the US-Mexico borderlands, the Calais encampment in France, refugee camps in Ken...

Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home became a global phenomenon, yet before 2020, it was a relatively understudied pr...

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several L...

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage...

This monograph analyses the role of border cities in promoting territorial development processes in border regions across the world. It not only em...

The best streets in the world's villages, towns, and citieswhether modest or grandcontinually remind one that simplicity is part of the recipe for ...

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how...

Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilised or disproportionately allocated to the ...

What if, even in the heart of a densely developed city, people could have meaningful encounters with nature? While parks, street trees, and green r...

What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persi...

Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produc...

This book explores how the concept of region has evolved over time and shaped architectural culture and practice. It questions what the words regio...

Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWI...

The 2007 bridge collapse in Minneapolis-St. Paul quickly became symbolic of the debilitated interstate highway system, and of what many critics see...

From the beginning of his career, Peter Calthorpe has been a leading innovator in sustainable building projects, sustainable development, and walka...

Short-term, community-based projects - from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives - have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activ...

What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change...

Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visio...