In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. ...
This second edition of Concrete Pavement Design, Construction, and Performance provides a solid foundation for pavement engineers seeking relevant and applicable design and construction ...
People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship ...
The time is ripe for interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to school design. Whatever the current funding limitations, we still need to think about how we ...
Rapid growth, unmanageable cities, urban crisis - the cities of West Africa are no longer plannable,at least not by using traditional urban development tools. ...
Original and insightful, this volume, giving in-depth consideration to the key issues affecting the future of market towns, provides readers with a framework for ...
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune ...
An increase in major natural disasters-and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities-has led to heightened concerns about ...
Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the ...
Displacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disruptions in developing or unstable countries. Hurricane Katrina shattered this ...
Sustaining and strengthening local livelihoods is one of the most fundamental challenges faced by post-conflict countries. By degrading the natural resources that are essential ...
This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice ...
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable ...
Some cities avoid change. Others accept it. Atlanta pursues it. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil ...
Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land ...
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and ...
