Urban & municipal planning books

Deals with the practices and politics of place and identity formation - the slippery ways in which who we are becomes...  Read More >>

Once considered enclaves of intellectual pursuit, they now play a much broader role in their neighborhoods and cities....  Read More >>

In the world of municipal politics, truth is stranger than fiction, and there is no truth stranger than La Blanca...  Read More >>

In the world of municipal politics, truth is stranger than fiction, and there is no truth stranger than La Blanca...  Read More >>

As the director of the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency, Olivia Golden led reform of a system...  Read More >>

Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the...  Read More >>

Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the...  Read More >>

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Originally published in hardcover in 2009.  Read More >>

Voici le blurb : The radical transformation that Spanish rural areas have experienced in the past few decades suggest,...  Read More >>

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Voici le blurb: Chile has achieved strong economic growth during the last 20 years. Nevertheless, its economy depends...  Read More >>

The 'green building revolution' is a worldwide movement for energy-efficient, environmentally aware architecture...  Read More >>

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Traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through mayor Richard M Daley's Plan for Transformation....  Read More >>

The 'green building revolution' is a worldwide movement for energy-efficient, environmentally aware architecture...  Read More >>

Offers a synthesis of knowledge of potential and challenges associated with multiple roles, management and livelihood...  Read More >>

A fresh 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. This book describes...  Read More >>

The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the substantial periods of urban development in UK. The New Towns...  Read More >>

The Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological...  Read More >>

The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the substantial periods of urban development in UK. The New Towns...  Read More >>

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy collaborated with 14 leading land use researchers and planners to measure and...  Read More >>

Explaining the changes that have taken place in town and city centres at night, the authors draw on international...  Read More >>

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