What is suburbia? : naming the layers in the landscape, 1820-2000 / Dolores Hayden -- How they lost their way in San Jose : the capital of Silicon Valley as a case study of postwar sprawl / Glenna Matthews -- Electronic cottages, wired neighborhoods, and smart cities / William J. Mitchell -- How...

China's recently established Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) has been given the task of developing the country's first National Territorial and Spatial Plan (NTSP). This Plan will replace four separate sectoral plans previously prepared by different ministries. The NTSP is meant to integrate...

Though many of the EU's coastal zones face a variety of environmental threats, to date the EU has been slow in adopting specific legislation designed to tackle this pressing problem. Thankfully, the EU Communications on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) (2000 amp; 2007) advance a more...

In the last several years, much has been written about growing economic challenges, increasing income inequality, and political polarization in the United States. Addressing these new realities in America’s metropolitan regions, this book argues that a few lessons are emerging: first, inequity...