Urban & municipal planning books

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The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition

The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of...

Author: Padraig R. Carmody (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; University of Johannesburg, South Africa) ,  James T. Murphy (Clark University, USA)
ISBN: 9781119833611
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Illuminates the path to more generative urban transitions in Africa's cities and developing rural areas Africa...  Read More >>

Urban Climate Law: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

Urban Climate Law: An Earth Institute Sustainability...

Author: Michael Burger ,  Amy E. Turner
ISBN: 9780231201353
Format: Paperback
$32.95

Aimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities...  Read More >>

These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails

These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future...

Author: Eva Fedderly
ISBN: 9781982193911
Format: Hardback
$49.99

“A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead...  Read More >>

Urban Climate Law: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

Urban Climate Law: An Earth Institute Sustainability...

Author: Michael Burger ,  Amy E. Turner
ISBN: 9780231201346
Format: Hardback
$132.95

Aimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities...  Read More >>

Principles of Digital Democracy: Theory and Case Studies

Principles of Digital Democracy: Theory and Case Studies...

Author: Roslyn Fuller
ISBN: 9783110794397
Format: Hardback
$171.51

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Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements in South Africa

Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements...

Author: Verna Nel ,  Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens
ISBN: 9780367639105
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management....  Read More >>

Extremes Of Mobility: Development And Consequences Of Transport Policy In Los Angeles

Extremes Of Mobility: Development And Consequences Of...

Author: Stefan Bratzel (Univ Of Applied Sciences Bergisch Gladbach, Germany)
ISBN: 9789811278433
Format: Hardback
$232.32

The development of transportation policy in Los Angeles is a history of extremes: in the 1920s, the city had the...  Read More >>

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Author: Richard Sennett ,  Danny Campbell
ISBN: 9798212951456
Format: Audio
$110.85

"A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future In this sweeping work, the...  Read More >>

Art Work: Cities, Identities, and Cultural Work

Art Work: Cities, Identities, and Cultural Work

Author: Matthew J. Durey
ISBN: 9789819955541
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book is about the relationship between art and work in the cultural economy. It is an exploration of the experiences...  Read More >>

Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

Author: Thomas Heatherwick
ISBN: 9780241389799
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Developing Iran: Company Towns, Architecture, and the Global Powers

Developing Iran: Company Towns, Architecture, and the...

Author: Hamidreza Mahboubi Soufiani
ISBN: 9781032431123
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural, political, and...  Read More >>

Smart Cities and the Poor: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive Urbanization in India

Smart Cities and the Poor: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive...

Author: Alok Mishra
ISBN: 9781032438870
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines urban governance, digital divide, poverty, unemployment, financial and social exclusion and presents...  Read More >>

Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City Visions

Urban Futures: Planning for City Foresight and City...

Author: Timothy J. Dixon (University of Reading) ,  Mark Tewdwr-Jones (University College London)
ISBN: 9781447371670
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable,...  Read More >>

Private Renting in the Advanced Economies: Growth and Change in a Financialised World

Private Renting in the Advanced Economies: Growth and...

Author: Peter A. Kemp (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781447362081
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This edited collection analyses recent changes in the private rental housing market, using case studies from the...  Read More >>

Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad

Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of...

Author: Faiza Moatasim
ISBN: 9781512825206
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official...  Read More >>

Urban Planning and its Discontents: Practice in Contemporary India

Urban Planning and its Discontents: Practice in Contemporary...

Author: Darshini Mahadevia ,  Rutool Sharma
ISBN: 9781032018041
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book, the first of its kind, introduces various aspects of urban planning in India and contributes towards...  Read More >>

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka: Power, Politics, and Planning

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka:...

Author: Rasheda Khan
ISBN: 9781032539232
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka,...  Read More >>

Miss Chase: Santa Barbara’s Trailblazer

Miss Chase: Santa Barbara’s Trailblazer

Author: Simon Kerry
ISBN: 9781911397731
Format: Hardback
$75.99

This new and comprehensive story of instrumental conservationist Pearl Chase’s fascinating life is a tribute to...  Read More >>

The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization

The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the...

Author: Jonathan Silver
ISBN: 9780262546874
Format: Paperback
$100.00

"""An in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa's 3rd wave urbanization, drawing on case studies...  Read More >>

Reinventing the Chinese City

Reinventing the Chinese City

Author: Richard Hu
ISBN: 9780231211017
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Richard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary...  Read More >>

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