Urban & municipal planning books

Instead of a top-down approach, this book looks at the impact of bottom-up neighbourhood based initiatives. It analyses...  Read More >>

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The Swedish combination of growth and equity objectives reveals a strong regional scope. The three largest regions...  Read More >>

Today we find ourselves exhausted and depleted by natural and economic disruption. Worse, we face more of the same...  Read More >>

Through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, Sherman applies game theory to scrutinize the behavior of intersecting...  Read More >>

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This Review of Venice, Italy, offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region's economy and the extent to which...  Read More >>

This is the first book to provide readers with the skills to assess development potential from a holistic standpoint....  Read More >>

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This book offers a fundamental contribution to the literature on the creative industries and the knowledge-based...  Read More >>

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society....  Read More >>

An interdisciplinary study of an iconic city, a city facing conflicting social, political and cultural pressures...  Read More >>

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society....  Read More >>

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This is the first book to provide readers with the skills to assess development potential from a holistic standpoint....  Read More >>

The book’s rich empirical studies reveal that local institutions have engaged upwards, with central authorities,...  Read More >>

The revised and expanded edition of this one-of-a-kind dictionary offers a multilingual, practice-oriented resource...  Read More >>

El libro aborda las caracteristicas y los postulados basicos de los enfoques utilizados en las politicas publicas...  Read More >>

The fourth edition of Canadian Cities in Transition: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century is a core, contributed...  Read More >>

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research...  Read More >>

Comprises of papers from a workshop organized by the East Asian Institute on Eco-cities in East Asia on 27 February...  Read More >>

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Looking at the role of spatial planning in major change such as urban extensions or redevelopment, this book asks...  Read More >>

With more and more of the world's population projected to live in urban areas, the life and death of cities has...  Read More >>

The award-winning book on urban poverty--now thoroughly revised and updated  Read More >>