Urban & municipal planning books

This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities...  Read More >>

The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three fundamental trends...  Read More >>

Presents estimates on the rate of change of major land classes. This title offers innovative developments and applications...  Read More >>

Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this...  Read More >>

Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation...  Read More >>

Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning,...  Read More >>

Japan today protects one-seventh of its land surface in parks, which are visited by well over a billion people each...  Read More >>

It has been increasingly recognized that trees and vegetation in urban areas provide a number of ecological services...  Read More >>

Located on the southern coast of China, Guangdong is the country's most populous and rich province. It has 95.4...  Read More >>

Offers an understanding of Dubai urbanism by demonstrating that cumulative programmatic intensification and scalar...  Read More >>

By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban...  Read More >>

This fourth volume of some of the best, award-winning writing from around the world’s planning schools promotes...  Read More >>

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First published in 1985, this book reconsiders the whole question of urbanisation and planning in the Third World....  Read More >>

Initially published in 1981, this book examines the problems of housing provision for the urban poor in developing...  Read More >>

First published in 1986, this reissue is concerned with the increased social problems, regional imbalances, and...  Read More >>

English summary: Buildings in need of renovation and fallow areas around railway lines are typical of many railway...  Read More >>

Le continent européen se caractérise par une forte densité en organisations intergouvernementales compétentes dans...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1992, this book discusses a contemporary growth in environmental awareness, reflected in...  Read More >>

Regional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today's effective...  Read More >>

Civitas by Design takes a critical look at the history of the use of urban planning to strengthen civic ties in...  Read More >>

In his 1959 essay Philadelphia in the Year 2009, Edmund Bacon described a city remade, modernized in time to host...  Read More >>

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A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.  Read More >>