HUD has taken steps to promote energy efficiency by providing information, training, and technical assistance, but its efforts have limitations. HU...

During recent past, large scale conversions of forests to other land-uses in developed and developing countries in response to high population grow...

Land use is the human modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. More rece...

This book presents documentation, reflection and critical analysis of two award-winning projects Monash Steps and Stawell Steps. These linked proje...

In the 1970s, Redfern, an inner-city suburb of metropolitan Sydney, became the epicentre for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals....

In this book, a number of concepts and understandings about ‘development' intertwine. Scales, times and human activities are projected onto territo...

Many Canadians say that British Columbia is the zaniest political province. It's too diverse, too polarised -- geographically, demographically and ...

There are several different definitions of smart cities based on the various characteristics related to the adjective Smart and the noun City. The ...

Urban sprawl has radically transformed Southern European landscapes. Nowadays, sprawl is a major benefiting factor in the daily lives of thousands ...

The relationship between human beings and the urban environment is a topic increasing in relevance. Most of the people in the world live in an urba...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the strategies, management and impacts of urban development. Topics included in ...

One of the issues of urban development and urban lifestyle, which can be studied from the sea to space, has posed important challenges for humaniti...

Urban development in sub-Saharan Africa has posed more challenges in recent decades, shifting the focus from rural poverty to urbanised poverty. Be...

Recent research has demonstrated how gentrification and urban redevelopment can serve to promote and exacerbate socio-spatial stigmatisation direct...

Urban planning professionals around the globe are confronted with a multitude of challenges and problems as a result of economic, environmental and...

This book contains several key factors of urban growth in today's world: natural vegetation, air quality, birds, and energy. The impact of city gro...

Urban sustainability and governance in relation to housing trends and policies is the focus of this book written by leading Nordic and Baltic housi...

Urbanization refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically,...

The Chinese government incorporated tourism and urbanisation as a key component for economic and social development in the Five-Year National Plan....