Urban & municipal planning books

This book contributes to the development of new architectural approaches to informal neighbourhoods and to a better...  Read More >>

Against the backdrop of an accelerating global urbanization and related ecological, climatic or social challenges...  Read More >>

In the midst of a global slowdown in productivity, unlocking the innovative potential of rural places is more important...  Read More >>

Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based)...  Read More >>

An engaging and controversial argument against zoning laws, tapping into excitign changes happening in US cities....  Read More >>

Based on over three-and-a-half decades of fieldwork in seventeen villages, across three regions, and encompassing...  Read More >>

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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation...  Read More >>

Set within a wider British and international context of post-war reconstruction, The Everyday Experiences of Reconstruction...  Read More >>

Bringing together leading planning historians from the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy and Germany, this book is concerned...  Read More >>

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals...  Read More >>

Written from an ‘in house’ perspective in response to the UK Government Housing White Paper released in February...  Read More >>

University Spatial Development and Urban Transformation in China explores the changing relationship between the...  Read More >>

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative,...  Read More >>

This book contains an interdisciplinary discussion of contemporary urban movements and issues influencing the relationship...  Read More >>

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Dubai and the Landscape introduces a revolutionary characterization of landscape architecture. By combining the...  Read More >>

This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local...  Read More >>

Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based)...  Read More >>

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This handbook provides up to date research and case studies that highlight both the need and strategies for creating...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Megacities in the Global South provides rigorous comparative analyses, discussing...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook on Historic Urban Landscapes in Asia-Pacific sheds light onto the balancing act of urban...  Read More >>

This book argues that accelerating action toward sustainability for and by cities and their inhabitants can make...  Read More >>