Urban & municipal planning books

This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central...  Read More >>

What has happened to cities after the global economic recession? Sustaining Cities answers this question by explaining...  Read More >>

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What has happened to cities after the global economic recession? Sustaining Cities answers this question by explaining...  Read More >>

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Cosmopolis is a pattern book of expectations, generously illustrated with a gathering of plans from the City Beautiful...  Read More >>

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Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development? Are cities...  Read More >>

In contrast to many publications on the rural/urban divide, this volume provides empirical perspectives from four...  Read More >>

Description: Poor people in most rural areas of developing countries often improvise resources in unique ways to...  Read More >>

This important new volume advances current role theory scholarship, offering concrete theoretical suggestions of...  Read More >>

Offers a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. This book reviews...  Read More >>

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Post-Katrina New Orleans has been a testing ground for many ideas about city planning and urban design. This volume...  Read More >>

What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a...  Read More >>

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Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering...  Read More >>

The Farming the City project began in November 2010 as an initiative of the Amsterdam-based organization CITIES,...  Read More >>

West European Housing Systems in a Comparative Perspective gives an overview of the results of almost 20 years of...  Read More >>

In Access to Eden, John Astley explores the influences that shaped the original public sector housing ideals in...  Read More >>

Provides diagnostic tools to inform policy dialogue and investment priorities on urbanization by operationalizing...  Read More >>

Using a wide array of cities around the globe as case studies, this timely book explores the varying nature of global...  Read More >>

This postgraduate level book uses research findings to address key questions relating to the performance of large-scale...  Read More >>

In Sound, Space, and the City, Marina Peterson explores the processes-from urban renewal to the performance of ethnicity...  Read More >>

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