Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design ...
George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in ...
This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management. Drawing ...
This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial - and urban - reality. ...
Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyond national ...
Heritage Planning: Principles and Process provides a comprehensive overview of heritage planning as an area of professional practice. The book first addresses the context ...
The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new ...
This book is about building the urban 'shared intelligence' - the synergy city - the capacity for thinking ahead, with creative innovation, turning problems ...
After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that ...
In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for ...
In response to both policy and conceptual debates, alternative narratives have begun to emerge about territorial governance and policy-making. As local and regional policy ...
During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governments have ...
