Urban and municipal planning and policy Books

How Good Are Parklets? traces the parklet's history, from its invention in 2005 as an experiment that tactically reclaimed street space for broader public use, to its surge in popularity worldwide after the COVID-19 pandemic for outdoor dining, community...

This book investigates multi-disciplinary approaches to addressing the health of disadvantaged communities through equitable community development systems (CDSs).

Human Rights and the Architecture of Conflict exposes real estate developers' role in entrenching ethnic and political divisions from Baltimore to Belfast and beyond.

This volume offers a comprehensive insight on sustainable development of local territories. It recommends the planning of local interventions through the integration of sustainable development with resilience of local systems.

Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development.Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as...

Winner of the 2024 Gapper Prize, awarded annually by the Society for French Studies for the best book of its year by a scholar working in French studies in Britain or Ireland.The decades after World War II saw France's look, feel and lived realities...

'Environmental Problem-Solving' offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing...

This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies...

The United States can build homes and rentals at fair prices. It's possible, doable, and customers are waiting. It's not that the U.S. doesn't have the private funding. It's not that the U.S. doesn't spend enough tax money. In fact, the U.S. already...

This book explores the governance of smart cities from a holistic approach, arguing that the creation of smart cities must consider the specific the circumstances of each country to improve the preservation, revitalisation, liveability, and...

Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new...

This book is a collection of articles on China's experience of social and economic reform, and proposes that new momentum is needed for depening of reform which can penetrate multiple levels of complex networks, from top to grassroots, and local to...

This volume, first published in 1970, assesses the major reappraisal of US world commercial policy that took place in the 1960s - in particular the wishes for free trade treaties that would bring about the liberalisation of international trade.

Culture is a living thing. In social settings, it is often used to represent entire ways of life, including rules, values, and expected behavior. Varying from nation to nation, neighborhood to neighborhood and beyond, even in the smallest localities,...

This volume explores new opportunities to reshape local economies in rural areas during the next decade by exploring successful efforts already underway.While reported population declines can paint a bleak picture for rural areas, a different story can...

Engendering Cities examines the contemporary research, policy, and practice of designing for gender in urban spaces. Gender matters in city design, yet despite legislative mandates across the globe to provide equal access to services for men and women...

Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive ecosystems, water supplies, and food security. Existing urban infrastructure is crumbling while governments...

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had...

Role Theory in International Relations provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of recent theoretical scholarship on foreign policy roles and extensive empirical analysis of role behaviour of a variety of states in the current era of eroding American...

This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through...

This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides a theoretically distinct...

Despite occupying a central role and frequently being used in the study of international politics, the concept of the "event" remains in many ways unchallenged and unexplored. By combining the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and his concept of the event...

As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive 'events' policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation. Events Policy:...

Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project.　 Neoliberalism's onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism,...

The survey and the transference are the distinctive and operative acts in the transmission of real property and, where they differ from each other, one must of necessity control the other. This book addresses the aforementioned concepts by external...

Climate change adaptation in South Asia is redefining the roles of different actors in the governance processes. The existing governance lack capacity, knowledge, and leadership skills to manage the uncertainties and challenges posed by climate change...

Bordered Cities and Divided Societies is a provocative, moving, and poetic encounter with the hearts and minds of individuals living in nine cities of conflict, violence, and healing-Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Barcelona,...

A context of aging populations and urbanization has sparked a global movement to make urban spaces age-friendly. The Age-Friendly City program, developed by the World Health Organization, aims to improve local environments for all population groups,...

The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents,...

Il libro ""Il Sistema Municipale Inglese E La Legge Comunale Italiana V1: La Costituzione Municipale Inglese (1869)"" di Pietro Manfrin fornisce una dettagliata analisi del sistema municipale inglese e della legge comunale italiana. In particolare, il...

El libro ""El Criterio Legal En Los Delitos Pol������ticos"" fue escrito por Manuel De Rivera Delgado en el a�����o 1873. En esta obra, el autor aborda la tem�����tica de los delitos pol������ticos y su tratamiento legal en la �����poca. El libro se...

""Droit Municipal Dans Les Temps Modernes: XVI Et XVII Siecles"" est un livre �����crit par Ferdinand Bechard et publi����� en 1866. Il s'agit d'un ouvrage historique qui explore le droit municipal au cours des XVIe et XVIIe si�����cles. Bechard examine...

Das Buch ""Die Wehrverfassungen der deutschen St�����dte in der zweiten H�����lfte des XIV Jahrhunderts"" von Ernst von der Nahmer wurde im Jahr 1888 ver������ffentlicht. Es befasst sich mit den Wehrverfassungen der deutschen St�����dte in der zweiten...

La Colecci������n de Bandos, Disposiciones de Polic������a y Reglamentos Municipales de Administraci������n del Distrito Federal y Ordenanzas Municipales (1869) es un libro escrito por Jos����� Mar������a del Castillo Velasco. Esta obra recopila una...

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of the urban informal labour market and contribute significantly to the Indian economy. This book presents an...

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security.

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. The book will interest practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human...

This book systematically investigates the strategy and practice of comprehensive land consolidation in China by assessing the objective of the program and its implementation.

This book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban...

Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from South Africa to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda and Australia, the authors argue for an alternative approach to post-conflict thought. Featuring contributions from both up and coming and well-established...

Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have...

Drawing upon a variety of important philosophical traditions, this book develops an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas...

As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment,...

This book introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework which examines the impact of ecological modernization on city branding, using Chinese megacity regions as examples.

There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world. In most liberal-democratic countries,...

From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and...