Environment & the City

With an audience of students, policymakers, and planning practitioners in mind, this book challenges and reconstructs three traditional premises of urban planning and policymaking – the ideas of creating diversity, fostering opportunity, and growing places – in light of on-going transformation in th..

This book asserts that post-industrial urban greenspaces are contested places where different individuals, groups, plants and animals negotiate power and presence. While the most powerful and dominant typically prevail, there are also instances where marginalized groups are able to outcompete and as..

This book asserts that post-industrial urban greenspaces are contested places where different individuals, groups, plants and animals negotiate power and presence. While the most powerful and dominant typically prevail, there are also instances where marginalized groups are able to outcompete and as..

_x000D_ This book examines and defines the field of biomimicry for sustainable design and goes on to translate ecological knowledge into practical methodologies for architectural and urban design that can proactively respond to climate change and biodiversity loss...

Urban centers are bastions of inequalities, where poverty, marginalization, segregation and health insecurity are magnified. Minorities and the poor – often residing in neighbourhoods characterized by degraded infrastructures, food and job insecurity, limited access to transport and health care, and..

Urban centers are bastions of inequalities, where poverty, marginalization, segregation and health insecurity are magnified. Minorities and the poor – often residing in neighbourhoods characterized by degraded infrastructures, food and job insecurity, limited access to transport and health care, and..

This book presents models and examples for organizing multiple stakeholders for purposes of waterway revitalization or naturalization – if not restoration – within a context of fairness and environmental justice...

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry. It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, including for issues such as air quality, human well-being and stormwater managem..

Rapid growth of urban populations is a major characteristic of economic development and demographic change in developing countries leading to industrialisation and modernisation of major cities. Originally published in 1980, this study focusses on these issues using Mexico as a case study as well as..

Rapid growth of urban populations is a major characteristic of economic development and demographic change in developing countries leading to industrialisation and modernisation of major cities. Originally published in 1980, this study focusses on these issues using Mexico as a case study as well as..

Prepared foods, for sale in streets, squares or markets, are ubiquitous around the world and throughout history. This volume is one of the first to provide a comprehensive social science perspective on street food, illustrating its immense cultural diversity and economic significance, both in develo..

‘Sustainability citizenship’ is the focus of this landmark collection on urban sustainability and the roles of citizens, governance, participation and work in sustainable urban futures. It explains how sustainability citizenship can manifest in cities and their built environments. The book defines, ..