Books - URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous researchers that help in...More

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

This book examines how Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The volume is a compilation of...More

Regional and Urban GIS: A Decision Support Approach

This unique text shows students and professionals how GIS can guide decision making about complex community and environmental problems. The authors' step-by-step introduction to GIS-based...More

New Frontiers in Urban Analysis: In Honor of Atsuyuki Okabe

Bringing together the world's leading experts in Urban Analysis, this remarkable and critically acclaimed volume applies the theories and models of Atsuyuki Okabe, Japan's preeminent spatial...More

Making the Metropolitan Landscape: Design and Modernity in American Cities

Bringing together for the first time many well known and emerging voices in urban design theory and practice, this volume argues for a progressive and engaged design practice which fully relates...More

Urban Design

Fifty years ago a landmark conference at Harvard University established urban design as a distinct architectural and planning practice. Today, with the world's urban population surpassing three...More

Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina

Racial disparities exist in disaster response, cleanup, and recovery. Race plays out in survivors' ability to rebuild, obtain loans, and locate housing. Low-income and people of color disaster...More

Where Things Are, From Near To Far

A children's book! While playing in the city park, little Hugo wonders, Who put these buildings here? Hugo's mother leads him on a whirlwind trip through the city, the country, and everything...More

Modelling Urban Development with Geographical Information Systems and Cellular Automata

Urban development and migration from rural to urban areas are impacting prime agricultural land and natural landscapes, particularly in the less developed countries. These phenomena will persist...More

Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing for graduate students,...More