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Street commerce
A comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerceStreet commerce has gained prominence in urban areas, where demographic shifts such as increasing numbers of single people and childless "empty nesters," along with technological innovations...
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The death and life of gentrification
A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in the 1960s to mark the displacement of working-class residents in London neighborhoods by the ...
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The forgotten city
We all want cities, where more than half of the world’s population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable. Will ‘smart cities’ help achieve these aspirations or undermine them in the time of COVID-19? Phil Allmendinger, a world expert...
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The invention of the future
A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization—from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from those of the past. Planners pursued prog...
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The other housing crisis
Why fixing America’s housing crisis requires repairing older homes—and not just building new onesThe United States is in the throes of a housing crisis, framed by the media as a crisis of affordability. People pay too much for housing—and the solution, it seems, is to increase the supply to drive...
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The paradox of urban revitalization
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to Oakland and elsewhere commentators saw cities rising again. Yet revitalization generated a second...
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The spatial contract
This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter – the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home.
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Today's comprehensive plan
A new model of comprehensive planning as a living process rather than a static documentHow does your community map out a long-term vision for the built environment? Most US cities and counties have long used the comprehensive plan for this purpose. While the plan was conceived to meet the existen...
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Toward sustainable communities, fifth edition
Toward Sustainable Communities is the definitive guide to creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places. This completely revised 5th edition organizes community resources into 8 interrelated forms of capital, creating an innovative framework for maximizing social, economic, and envi...
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Underground spaces unveiled
Underground Spaces Unveiled is a broad overview of the concept of underground space development investigating the issues that are associated with the sustainable development of urban underground space.
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Unifying the field of digital twins for urban management
Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management presents a holistic and integrated approach to the rapidly evolving field of digital twins for urban management. The framework offers a structured approach that encompasses both theoretical underpinnings and practical applications.
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Urban alchemy
Urban Alchemy delves into the pressing challenges and unique opportunities facing developing countries in their quest for sustainable urban transformation. Readers are introduced to a comprehensive framework designed to guide policymakers, urban planners, and scholars in reimagining the future of...
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Urban economics and fiscal policy
An innovative advanced-undergraduate and graduate-level textbook in urban economicsWith more than half of today’s global GDP being produced by approximately four hundred metropolitan centers, learning about the economics of cities is vital to understanding economic prosperity. This textbook intro...
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Urban resilience
Taking the Turkish case as a pioneering testing ground, Stefano Salata advocates for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities.
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Visual pollution
Visual Pollution: Concepts, Practices and Management Framework offers the first substantial cutting-edge exploration of visual pollution in urban settlements, uncovering the conceptualisation, geography-specific visual pollutants, methods of visual pollution assessment and management frameworks.
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Volume 1: community and society
Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing in...
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When mountain lions are neighbors
Now updated with a new preface: a full-color celebration of coexistence with California's iconic wildlife.Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas, and across the state Californians are taking action to recast wildlife as an integral part of our everyday lives. In Los Angeles, resi...
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Wildcat of the streets
How Black youth in Detroit made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policingThe criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the ...
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