The book contains a certain amount of material on history and technology because the issues that planning focuses on are largely ones that political, social, and economic changes bring to the foref…
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 …
By using field survey and World Bank investment project evaluation method, this book investigates the experience of slum rebuilding in Liaoning province, China. It figures out that the experience o…
In this book, I have analyzed the slum as a social and cultural phenomenon, bringing together relevant research materials about slums in Western and non-Western societies. I have also dealt with th…
Urban Social Segregation covers the frontier where the spatial aspects of sociology overlap the social aspects of geography. It collects, with a full-scale introduction, a series of papers on the s…
The nine case studies in this volume, and the introductory chapter that highlights some of their important findings, are end products of an international research project that was unusual in severa…
Town Planning in its Social Context explores the crucial role of town planning within a social and community framework. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the book examines how social, cultural,…