Urban & Land Use Planning

Cities are now home to 55% of the world's population, and that number is rising. Urban populations across the world will continue to grow, including in megacities with populations over ten million. In 2016 there were 31 megacities globally, according to...

Science parks are becoming established in increasing numbers in almost all parts of the world. Promoted as places on the frontiers of science where a new breed of scientist-entrepreneur invents a new future, extolled as high-status workplaces where a new...

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventions aimed at encouraging greater equity and community engagement in growth and renewal. But the projects...

'Village in the City' investigates an equally specific and spectacular urbanisation process that many regions in China have been undergoing during the past two decades. The massive scale and the unprecedented speed of this process imply an incredible...

What if cities around the world actively worked to promote the health and healing of all of their residents? Cities contribute to the traumas that cause unhealthy stress, with segregated neighborhoods, insecure housing, few playgrounds, environmental...

Intended as a 'one stop shop' of a veritable who's who of leading urban agriculture authors and scholars, this book brings together multiple contributions on the design, development, science, and society of the rapidly expanding, multi-disciplinary field...

Shaping Terrain shows how the physical landscape and local ecology have influenced human settlement and built form in Latin America since pre-Columbian times. Most urban centers and capitals of Latin American countries are situated on or near...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530008295Author Robyne TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 939g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530008288Author Robyne TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262630870Author Donald M. McAllisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 499g

In the first geographic and environmental analysis of the recreational and retirement community industry, Hubert B. Stroud shows how and why certain communities had positive impacts on the surrounding region while others did not. Focusing on well-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545860Author James C. O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958286824Author Claude LewenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Jackson House Publishing CompanyPublisher Jackson House Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958286855Author Claude LewenzFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Jackson House Publishing CompanyPublisher Jackson House Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578113098Author Todd DurantFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Durant Publishing LLCPublisher Durant Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 263g

The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale, diverse populations, and mixed land use. But, as this book documents, smart growth has largely failed to address issues of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674369160Author Lloyd RodwinFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 522g

Civic Revolutionaries offers a practical guide for renewing the great American tradition of spirited, breakthrough community leadership. By their very nature, revolutionary leaders help their communities reconcile the competing values on which our nation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791445785Author Herb ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958286879Author Claude LewenzFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Jackson House Publishing CompanyPublisher Jackson House Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780894990625Author Ebenezer HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Books for BusinessPublisher Books for BusinessWeight(grams) 222g

This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax. This monograph presents an important extension of government-binding theory in syntax. It offers a new characterization of locality in the theory of government through...

It is estimated that only 5% of the western hemisphere's current housing stock is suitable for elderly residents. Fortunately, today's generation of architects is working towards increasing the availability and variety of housing for older people. This...

Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as a "juicy little time bomb of a book", Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience examines for the first time, New York Citya s 39--year mixed experience with the production of more than 500...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262692953Author Lynne B. SagalynFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1506g

The statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political landscape of eighteenth-century British America. His social contributions-all informed by Enlightenment ideals-included prison reform, the founding of...

"Today we must regain, by conscious effort, the essential unity of function and form. It is not a question of 'city beautiful.' It is a question of discovering the forms that will most clearly give expression to the function of our cities, as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996243711Author Sara N HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Hines Art PressPublisher Hines Art PressWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990004493Author Della RuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Wise Fool Press, an Imprint of the Wise Economy WoPublisher Wise Fool Press, an Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813948010Author Assistant Professor Elisa DaineseFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia...

The current cycle of urban growth dates from the 1970s and is likely to persist into the 2020s. Some of the world's most eminent urban geographers bring their expertise to bear on the American urban scene. They describe how cities have evolved, assess...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578990200Author Rick PruetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Arje PressPublisher Arje PressWeight(grams) 499g

Starting from first principles and using the practical experience of developing sustainable communities cost-effectively, One Planet Living cuts through the confusion. It presents a clear and simple framework that will allow students, developers,...

Nathan Glazer has called Marshall Kaplan "the best social planner of the 1960s" and asserts that this book "does for 1973 what Herbert Gans's People and Plans did for 1963." Kaplan states at the outset that "it can be said that...

Although a responsible and welcome critical literature in the social sciences has in recent years been measuring the human costs of urban renewal and environmental degradation, telling the designer what to avoid does not necessarily enlighten him about...

This is another in the series of reports that have resulted from the interdisciplinary student projects in systems engineering conducted each spring term at M.I. T. In 1968 the class was given the task of studying the problems facing the Boston seaport...

Revised edition of Regional Development and Planning: A ReaderSince 1964, when Regional Development and Planning: A Reader was first published, the book has become established as perhaps the most useful collection of source material in its field, and it...

Pioneering observers of the urban landscape Bernard Frieden and Lynne Sagalyn delve into the inner workings of the exciting new public entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships that have revitalized the downtowns of such cities as Boston, San...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525787Author Vinit MukhijaFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis. American Urban Form-the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life-has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days...