Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community l

Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, r

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.

This original collection examines how architectural ideas, social models and building forms circulate round the world and become mediated and adapted to local c

Sustainable and vibrant communities of the future are a result of proper planning.