Environment & the City

This book explores the emerging associations and tensions between urban sustainability policy and planning and urban gentrification processes at the neighbourhood/community scale, through an examination of the concepts of ‘environmental gentrification’ and ‘gentrified sustainability’...

_x005F_x000D_ This book builds on the recent publications on cities and climate change, resilient cities and coasts, and sustainable cities, and looks at the ways in which current planning approaches will need to be adapted to embrace concepts including green growth, planetary boundaries, healthy ci..

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities...

Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data collected in twenty-nine European cities from all four European geographic regions, this book examines the governance of urban green spaces and urban food production, focussing on the contribution of citizen-driven activities. Over the course of the book,..

Originally published in 1965, this collection covers issues such as criteria for decision-making in urban public spending, public and private supply and the political and voting behaviour of urban economies in order to contribute to the development of new analytical models and techniques as well as ..

This book describes the journey of Singapore´s development and the fundamental role that water has had in shaping it. What makes this case so unique is that the quest for self-sufficiency in terms of water availability in a fast-changing urban context has been crucial to the way development policies..

This book describes the journey of Singapore´s development and the fundamental role that water has had in shaping it. What makes this case so unique is that the quest for self-sufficiency in terms of water availability in a fast-changing urban context has been crucial to the way development policies..

 Originally published in 1968, this particular study examines the increase of apartment construction in the suburb including the extent of construction and the factors behind construction such as population demographics, highway construction and national and local land use policy. Neutze makes compa..

This book explores the relationships between heritage and sustainability in terms of both theory and practice. It examines the relationships between people and communities in the places where they live, and thus exemplifies the diverse ways in which heritage is used to forge identities and support a..

This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment gardening in Europe...

This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment gardening in Europe...

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. This book aims to review what is currently known about urban ecosystems in a short and approachable text that will serve as a key resource for teac..