A resurgence in the use of public space continues throughout North America and many other parts of the world. Neighborhoods have become more outspoken in their demands for appropriate park designs;…
The book Sustainable Urban Planning: Tipping the Balance explores the concept of sustainable urban planning in the face of pressing environmental and social challenges. Robert Riddel analyzes innov…
The book Data Management for Urban and Regional Development, published by the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat), discusses the importance of data management in urban and regiona…
The book Homes, Towns & Traffic explores the relationship between housing planning, urban design, and traffic management. John Tetlow and Anthony Goss analyze how the design of housing and urban in…
The book Planning for a Nation of Cities discusses the challenges and opportunities in urban planning amid the rapid urbanization in the United States. Sam Bass Warner examines the history of Ameri…
Real Cities explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city experiences best described as phantasmagoric and illuminated by the work of Benjamin, Freud and Simmel. While phantasmagor…
Exploring the American city as a metropolitan landscape, the book brings together well-known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice to examine roles designers play as professionals…
The book looks both at the British context as well as experience in other developed economies and takes stock of how the policy has evolved. It examines the rationale for planning gain, how it has …
From 2008, for the first time in human history, half of the world's population will live in cities. Yet despite a wealth of literature on green architecture and planning, there is to date no single…