Is your workspace just a desk - or a wellspring of creativity that houses your inner muse? Is it just a room - or a borderless arena that motivates you to perform at your best? Whether you are a de…
“The Social Background of a Plan: A Study of Middlesbrough,” edited by Ruth Glass, is a significant work first published in 1948. This book is part of a series on Urban and Regional Sociology a…
“The Culture of Cities” by Lewis Mumford is a seminal work in urban studies and planning. Published in 1938, this book explores the development of cities from medieval times through industriali…
"The City of Auckland is the focal point of the Auckland region, which is New Zealand's largest urban area and has 800,000 people. The City's population is 150,000. In the early history of New Zea…
“The Renaissance City” is a book by Giulio Carlo Argan that delves into the theories of city planning that emerged in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book provides an il…
This is a report of an experiment in interdisciplinary education for environmental planning recently carried out at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It represents an attempt to use a studio c…
The book India's Changing Villages explores the social, economic, and cultural transformations occurring in India's villages. S. C. Dube analyzes how modernization, industrialization, and urbanizat…
The book A Human Approach to Urban Planning emphasizes the importance of a human-centered approach in urban planning. Georges Meyer Heine argues that urban planning should consider the social, psyc…
The book Power, Poverty, and Urban Policy explores the relationship between power, poverty, and urban policy in the United States. It examines how local and national power structures influence the …
The state of urban political analysis today is almost-not quite as disquieting as the state of the cities themselves. Political scientists can lend sympathetic ears, but they have not yet developed…