Urban Planning & Development

Previously knowledge about housing has been available only from widely disparate sources focused on the traditional disciplines of construction, design, building control, planning, economics, sociology and psychology, leaving scope for a fresh holistic overview of how the separate inputs into the ho... More

The practical importance of diversity and equality for spatial planning and sustainable development is still not widely understood. Using international examples, this book shows planners and educationalists the benefits of building in a consideration of diversity and equality at each stage and level... More

The authors present alternative environmental actions that integrate the needs of local people and interact with political and economic institutions at regional, national, and global levels.... More

"Creating Child Friendly Cities" seeks to assess the extent to which the physical and social make up of Western cities accommodates and nourishes the needs of children and youth. Examining the areas of planning, design, social policy, transport, housing, it outlines strengths and deficiencies in the... More

Post-suburbia is a term that encapsulates a variety of contemporary urban forms, in particular the 'edge city' - a term used to describe the rapid growth of new urban centres at the edges of established major cities. Widely discussed in the US, very little has been written about European edge cities... More

Town planning as a coherent body of thought began about one hundred years ago with the publication of Ebenezer Howard's "Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform." The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act set the standard in the U.K. for planning, and Thatcher's decade brought planning into mainstream... More

Written primarily from a British planning perspective, the book illustrates how various EU policies, programs, and legal instruments have affected the practice of planning in Britain and the work of central government and local planning authorities. This practice relates, for example, to opportuniti... More

"Metropolitan Governance "offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions throughout Europe and North America. The authors develop an analytical framework focused on the dynamics of place, building on the premise that issues of metropolitan g... More