Urban & municipal planning books

In an online, interconnected world, democracy is increasingly made up of wikis and blogs, pokes and tweets. Citizens...  Read More >>

This book introduces an innovative three-tier architecture approach for modeling the dynamics and consequences of...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites, examining the dynamic ways that cities...  Read More >>

Critically appraises how 'social mix' has been constructed historically in urban planning and housing policy.  Read More >>

Asserting that the concepts of neoliberalism and neoliberalisation are absent from urban planning discourse, the...  Read More >>

Rural areas are often viewed as isolated and stagnating areas and urban areas as their opposites. This book corrects...  Read More >>

The thesis is an original and novel contribution to land use/land cover change analysis using methods of geosimulation...  Read More >>

The complex interactions  between human and physical systems confronting geographers pose unique conceptual,...  Read More >>

Describes and analyses the evolution of a sequence of approaches. Starting with the 'dinosaurs' of large-scale multi-subject...  Read More >>

This book pioneered the concept of townscape. 'Townscape' is the art of giving visual coherence and organization...  Read More >>

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Across Europe, regional development agencies (RDAs) have become a central feature of regional policy, both as innovative...  Read More >>

Focuses on terrorism and urbanism related to the changing nature of terrorism and the security challenges facing...  Read More >>

This book examines some of the evolving challenges faced by EU regional policy in light of enlargement and to assess...  Read More >>

Bringing together a range of case studies from North America, South Asia, East Europe and the Middle East, this...  Read More >>

By examining a range of experiences from both the north and south of Ireland, this book asks what the ideal of sustainable...  Read More >>

Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting...  Read More >>

Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization...  Read More >>

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In 2005, the Provincial Administration of Milan and a group of researchers from the city's polytechnic developed...  Read More >>

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How do the intellectual origins and historical background of western and other theories of development affect their...  Read More >>

This book introduces the methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to the study of participatory planning....  Read More >>

The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to...  Read More >>