Urban & municipal planning books

Presents a comprehensive, theoretical, practical, and adaptive approach to understanding the issues involved in...  Read More >>

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Urban development in sub-Saharan Africa has posed more challenges, shifting the focus from rural poverty to urbanised...  Read More >>

Sustainable development is one of the most important challenges facing all stakeholders in the built environment....  Read More >>

This volume presents a significant new collection that focuses on urbanization and its implications for economic...  Read More >>

In the context of the global food crisis, a growing consensus is emerging among academics, health practitioners,...  Read More >>

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Considered from the perspective of sustainability, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single...  Read More >>

Policy makers need both a handy reference guide to the regional policies of their own and other countries and a...  Read More >>

Despite being a large capital city in Africa in terms of size and its regional role, Nairobi is an unrecognised...  Read More >>

Hans van Ginkel Rector, United Nations University The challenges of the world's future are linked to the growing...  Read More >>

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The Europeanisation of Cities sheds light on the complex interplay between cities and the European Union, both how...  Read More >>

The present book is based on the experience of the author. The selection of subjects is based in part by the questions...  Read More >>

Not enough people have recorded how we did it, or shared the expe- ence with people in other countries, or even...  Read More >>

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This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination,...  Read More >>

Drawing on an in-depth critical analysis of Madrid's planning processes over the past century, Michael Neuman highlights...  Read More >>

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Urban Transport Development is a contribution to the ongoing global discussion on the future of urban transport....  Read More >>

Natural resource management by rural citizens in tropical regions is crucial both to the conservation of biodiversity...  Read More >>

After the Factory expores the challenges and opportunities facing the smaller industrial cities of America's heartland...  Read More >>

This 4th volume of some of the best, award-winning writing from around the world's planning schools promotes further...  Read More >>

The book Gender and Governance in Rural Services: Insights from India, Ghana and Ethiopia provides policy-relevant...  Read More >>

Outlines the essential elements of a biophilic city, and provides examples and stories about cities that have successfully...  Read More >>