Urban & municipal planning books

Cities throughout the West face rising crime, soaring housing costs, a sprawling homelessness crisis and devastated...  Read More >>

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This book examines diverse ways of questioning, critiquing, and communicating site in the creative process of architecture,...  Read More >>

This innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage...  Read More >>

This book will cover such topics as how urban youth learn science while engaged in urban agriculture programs, how...  Read More >>

Stop the Road is an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore's 40-year battle over expressway plans. Meet the...  Read More >>

This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from...  Read More >>

Through a series of investigative studies, this book critically discusses and compares different cases, innovations...  Read More >>

"Stories of these experienced practitioners explore the whys and ways of keeping ""community"" alive in community...  Read More >>

This book examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects...  Read More >>

Innovative study of state politics, identity and buildings that sheds new light on the links between the material...  Read More >>

The success and failure of the Danish wellfare city. Critical Cityis a debate book that uses essays, images and...  Read More >>

This book examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects...  Read More >>

How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it.  Read More >>

Globally, Smart Cities initiatives are pursued which reproduce the interests of capital and neoliberal government,...  Read More >>

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This book investigates the relationship between mining, mine closure and housing policy in post-apartheid South...  Read More >>

The book is intended fora wide audience interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in urbanism,...  Read More >>

The book outlines the concept of the Automated City, in the context of smart city research and development. While...  Read More >>

This monograph examines the (sub)urbanization process of seven transitional economies in Southeast, East, and North...  Read More >>

This monograph presents a novel typology of relational and territorial perspectives on legitimacy and identity....  Read More >>

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable...  Read More >>

By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, DC, in Loudoun County,...  Read More >>

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable...  Read More >>