Urban Design

Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. The work argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architectur..

This book presents a new theoretical framework through which to view sustainable place-making from the context of the seemingly incongruent and contradictory qualities of serenity and urbanism...

This book presents a new theoretical framework through which to view sustainable place-making from the context of the seemingly incongruent and contradictory qualities of serenity and urbanism...

This book is a step-by-step guide to drafting and implementing a comprehensive plan through zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, and capital improvements programs, with sensitivity to local character and limited resources.The third edition shows how technologies such as GIS and the Internet c..

This collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research which focusses on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. Drawing on a wide range of ..

This collection confronts the recurrent epistemological impasse that arises between research which focusses on the description of material built environments and that which is concerned primarily with the people who inhabit, govern and write about cities past and present. Drawing on a wide range of ..

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). Why and how did this strategy originate in Mumbai? What were the key issues in the project’s implementation? This critical volume responds to these q..

In the mid-1990s, the state government of Maharashtra introduced an innovative strategy of slum redevelopment in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). Why and how did this strategy originate in Mumbai? What were the key issues in the project’s implementation? This critical volume responds to these q..

Brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using their original research to argue for greater attention to how feeling and emotion is deeply embedded in social structures and power relations. ..

Brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using their original research to argue for greater attention to how feeling and emotion is deeply embedded in social structures and power relations. ..

This book examines and documents the remarkable development and transformation of suburban form throughout the globe during the twentieth century...

This volume offers a coherent set of articles on sustainable and creative cities and addresses modern theories and concepts relating to research on sustainability and creativity. It analyses principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policies and recommendations towards the..