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 ...
This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale. It argues that to foster favourable conditions for the sustainable ...
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 ...
This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice ...
Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world's population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both ...
Unsere gebaute Welt wirft täglich neue Fragen auf - sei es in kultureller, technischer, ökonomischer, sozialer, politischer oder ästhetischer Hinsicht. Doch viel zu oft ...
Community Matters: Service Learning in Engaged Design and Planning explores issues that resonate with a diverse group of design and planning educators drawn to ...
Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, ...
Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory charts the unique spatial realities of Canada's Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed ...
Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovations? What are ...
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical ...
'The region' has been used to understand and propose solutions to phenomena and problems outside the dominant spatial scale of the twentieth century - ...