Urban Planning & Development

James DeFilippis offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of economic globalization on cities and communities in the US. Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heigh... More

"Culture After Humanism" asks what happens to the authority of traditional Western modes of thought in the wake of postcolonial theory. Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology. In a ... More

"Integrated Environmental Planning" presents a fresh, comprehensive approach to the diverse and dynamic world of environmental planning. In this accessible book, James Lein offers an essential guide to the mechanics of making a plan; introducing both the method and the tools necessary to environment... More

Are there significant variations in the ways planners in different nations have influenced urban, regional, and national development? Do such variations arise from differences in planning cultures, meaning the collective ethos and dominant attitude of planners in different nations towards the approp... More

Ever since 9/11, no one has been more vocal or articulate about the fate of Ground Zero than architect and social critic Michael Sorkin. He has been writing furiously about the future of New York and lower Manhattan in the pages of "The New York Times" and books like "After the World Trade Center," ... More

In an era of the globalization of finance, production and distribution networks, cities have become increasingly competitive. The business environments preferred by such international investment impact on the lives of citizens, on urban spaces, services, amenities and infrastructure. In the fight fo... More

With accelerating urbanization and growing interdependence of rural and urban dwellers on the markets and resources they each offer, rural-urban linkages have become a very important focus in recent years for research and policy relating to local and national economic development, poverty relief, an... More

This long-awaited second edition of the highly successful text on urban sociology retains the distinctive character and focus of the original, while taking fully into account recent theoretical debated and new empirical research. Expanded and thoroughly revised throughout, it incorporates the substa... More

From its ancient roots in the cities of classical Athenian, Roman and Byzantium empires, to the European Renaissance, public culture shows both a historic continuity and contemporary response to economic and social change. This work examines how and why the cultures have been planned and the extent ... More

Today's trend towards the renewal of cities, sociable places, higher standards of architecture and sustainable city centre living is the business of urban design. In Britain, effective urban design is now at the forefront of government policy. However, even when the goals are clear, how do you make ... More

Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible, despite successive failures, to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? What would this mean? "Urban Avant-Gardes and Social Transformation" attempts to contribute to debate on these questions, by looking back to past avant-gardes from the... More

The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world's six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within twenty-five years. The impacts and development challenges posed by historic shift are of equal mag... More

This thirteenth edition has been completely revised to take into account the many changes to the planning system and policies introduced by the Labour government. The devolution of Scotland and Wales, the new instruments of regional and strategic planning, new area based urban policy initiatives, in... More

The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) is published in eleven official EU languages and is the most international planning policy document that exists. This book is a unique look at the ESDP offering a snapshot of contemporary European spatial planning.The European Spatial Development P... More

One of the great thinkers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, Sir Patrick Geddes enjoyed a career of astonishing diversity. A figure of international importance in the history of modern town planning and environmental studies, he pioneered a sociological approach to the study of ur... More

This engaging book considers the British social reform movement at the beginning of the twentieth century through the lens of the garden city movement, a plan to build new communities on open land that would provide a healthy, aesthetially pleasing environment free from overcrowding and pollution. S... More