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Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice by Louise Simmons 9780415848404
RRP: £39.99£35.06Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are... -
The Government of Space: Town Planning in Modern Society by Alison Ravetz 9780415844451
RRP: £91.99£79.80Britain's planning system began as 'town and country planning' to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it... -
Integrated Water Resource Planning: Achieving Sustainable Outcomes by Claudia Baldwin 9780415835480
RRP: £89.99£78.49Integrated Water Resource Planning provides practical, evidence-based guidance on water resource planning. In a time of heightened awareness of ecosystem needs, climate change, and increasing and conflicting demands on resources, water professionals and... -
Encyclopedia of the City by Roger W. Caves 9780415862875
RRP: £49.99£44.50The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and practitioners, and on other individuals, groups, and organizations which... -
Cities and Low Carbon Transitions by Harriet A. Bulkeley 9780415814751
RRP: £53.99£46.87Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to... -
The Futures of the City Region by Angela Hull 9780415828901
RRP: £42.99£37.59Does the 'city region' constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by... -
From Intelligent to Smart Cities by Mark Deakin 9780415754897
RRP: £47.99£41.81The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilizing the intelligent application of new technologies, smart cities also incorporate considerations of social and environmental capital in order to... -
The West African City by Jerome Chenal 9780415750219
RRP: £68.00£65.76Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis - the cities of West Africa are no longer plannable,at least not by using traditional urban development tools. Without negating the importance of participatory approaches for making the city, it... -
Planning and Design for Future Informal Settlements: Shaping the Self-Constructed City by David Gouverneur 9780415737890
RRP: £76.99£67.45This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable evolution of future informal cities, planners must consider the same issues that are paramount in formal... -
After Sustainable Cities? by Mike Hodson 9780415659864
RRP: £135.00£117.28A sustainable city has been defined in many ways. Yet, the most common understanding is a vision of the city that is able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Central to this... -
Unorthodox Ways to Think the City: Representations, Constructions, Dynamics by Teresa Stoppani 9780415724388
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses... -
Creative Regions: Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship by Philip Cooke 9780415541145
RRP: £43.99£38.44This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints,... -
Relaunching Titanic: Memory and marketing in the New Belfast by William J. V. Neill 9780415540551
RRP: £43.99£38.44Relaunching Titanic critically considers the invocation of Titanic heritage in Belfast in contributing to a new 'post-conflict' understanding of the city. The authors address how the memory of Titanic is being and should be represented in the place of... -
Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban by Linda Peake 9780415518819
RRP: £47.99£41.81In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can form the core of a new emerging analytic of... -
Urban Segregation and the Welfare State: Inequality and Exclusion in Western Cities by Sako Musterd 9780415513647
RRP: £43.99£38.44Urban Segregation and the Welfare State examines ethnic and socio-economic segregation patterns, social polarisation, and social exclusion in major cities in the Western world. Contributors from across North America and Europe provide in-depth analysis... -
Industrial Property Markets in Western Europe by R. H. Williams 9780415511896
RRP: £43.99£38.44An important reference book both now and post 1992. It gives a clear introduction to the industrial property market in Europe and provides the information needed to understand each country's system of planning and property development.Book... -
Planning After Petroleum: Preparing Cities for the Age Beyond Oil by Jago Dodson 9780415504577
RRP: £115.00£99.76The past decade has been one of the most volatile periods in global petroleum markets in living memory, and future oil supply security and price levels remain highly uncertain. This poses many questions for the professional activities of planners and... -
Gated Communities: International Perspectives by Rowland Atkinson 9780415463799
RRP: £43.99£38.44This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance. While gated communities have become a common... -
Festival Cities: Culture, Planning and Urban Life since 1945 by John R. Gold 9780415486552
RRP: £105.00£90.86Following on the heels of their very successful Olympic Cities, in this book John and Margaret Gold turn to the experience of cities that stage regular cultural festivals, highlighting the nature and significance of performance, ritual and spectacle in... -
Planning, Risk and Property Development: Urban regeneration in England, France and the Netherlands by Nikos Karadimitriou 9780415481113
RRP: £49.99£43.50Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in Europe's cities with the aim of delivering private, merit and public goods. This book explores the relationships, objectives and... -
Cosmopolitan Urbanism by Jon Binnie 9780415344913
RRP: £135.00£117.28In order to attract investment and tourism, cities are increasingly competing to re-brand themselves as cosmopolitan, and in recent years, cosmopolitanism has become the focus of considerable critical attention in academia. Here, renowned editors and... -
Management of Regeneration: Choices, Challenges and Dilemmas by John Diamond 9780415334211
RRP: £56.99£49.41Stemming from a need to understand strategic processes, examine current practices, and identify the needs of regeneration management professionals, this book cites current regeneration management practice within a framework which critically examines the... -
Gated Communities: International Perspectives by Rowland Atkinson 9780415373159
RRP: £135.00£117.28This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance. While gated communities have become a common... -
Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis by Mr David Bell 9780415366571
RRP: £96.99£84.45Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne... -
The Urban Politics Reader by John H. Mollenkopf 9780415319966
RRP: £71.99£62.45The Urban Politics Reader draws together classic and contemporary writings that best illuminate the basic questions of urban politics - how interests contend for power over the distribution of resources and why some win while others lose. Contributions... -
China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism by Fulong Wu 9780415590433
RRP: £29.99£26.64With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the... -
Geographies of Labour Market Inequality by Ron Martin 9780415300148
RRP: £29.99£26.64In recent years, the local dimensions of the labour market have attracted increasing attention from academic analysts and public policy-makers alike. There is growing realization that there is no such thing as the national labour market, instead a mosaic... -
Reason in the City of Difference by Gary Bridge 9780415287661
RRP: £135.00£117.28In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on... -
Urban Futures: Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities by Malcolm Miles 9780415266932
RRP: £135.00£117.68Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities in the broadest sense, not just as buildings and spaces, but also as processes and... -
Space and Muslim Urban Life: At the Limits of the Labyrinth of Fez by Simon O'Meara 9780415576703
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book develops academic understanding of Muslim urban space by pursuing the structural logic of the premodern Arab-Muslim city, or medina. With particular reference to The Book of Walls, an historical discourse of Islamic law whose primary subject is... -
Regional Development in the Knowledge Economy by Philip Cooke 9780415578639
RRP: £43.99£38.44International contributors provide the first examination of the growing subject of regional knowledge-economy development. Illustrated by data and 'stylized' accounts, the international contributors chart the evolution of knowledge economies,... -
Development Policy and Planning: An Introduction to Models and Techniques by Anis Chowdhury 9780415098892
RRP: £49.99£43.50Reorientation from economic controls to a market-based approach led to significant changes in the economic policy of developing countries in the 1980s. Yet, with governments continuing to exercise economic management to accelerate growth beyond that... -
Homeless: Policies, strategies and Lives on the Streets by Gerald Daly 9780415120296
RRP: £54.99£47.72The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and debilitating. Unemployment, deinstitutionalisation, abuse in the home are among the stories the homeless... -
Towns and Cities: Function in Form: Urban Structures, Economics and Society by Julian Hart 9780367787325
RRP: £39.99£35.06Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather... -
Urban Safety and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City by Achim Wennmann 9780367786939
RRP: £41.99£36.75This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding. The book reflects the advances in urban safety and peacebuilding to help address the rapidly increasing risk... -
Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability by Robert W. Orttung 9780367731014
RRP: £41.99£36.75Capital Cities and Urban Sustainability examines how capital cities use their unique hub resources to develop and disseminate innovative policy solutions to promote sustainability. Cities are taking a leading role in defining a sustainable future at a... -
Gendered Approaches to Spatial Development in Europe: Perspectives, Similarities, Differences by Barbara Zibell 9780367730796
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book explores the extent to which gendered approaches are evident and effective in spatial development in selected European countries. Beginning with an introduction to theories and concepts of gender, space and development, the book includes a... -
City Branding and Promotion: The Strategic Approach by Waldemar Cudny 9780367730192
RRP: £41.99£34.36This book explores theoretical concepts of strategic promotion and place branding in cities. It outlines the issues associated with strategic management of urban territories and highlights various types of development strategies that seek to encourage... -
Youth Politics in Urban Asia by Yi'En Cheng 9780367693664
RRP: £135.00£117.28Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people's political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in myriad of tangible and... -
Dislocation: Awkward Spatial Transitions by Philip Cooke 9780367679613
RRP: £135.00£117.28Today, the world is in the most serious turmoil it has experienced for many centuries. These multiple crises arise from the fundamental mistreatment by capitalist competition of the carrying capacity of the planet. Even before coronavirus, evidently...