Jon Coaffee is Professor in Urban Geography based in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and director of the Resilient Cities Laboratory. His previous books include Terrorism Risk and the City (2003), The Everyday Resilience of the City (2008), Urban Resilience: Planning for Risk, Crisis and ......
America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centres is worsening. Because of the many strong and conflicting interests, policy discussions about the road system are also in gridlock. Road Work proposes a comprehensive highway pricing and investment policy to meet the goals of efficiency, equity, and ......
There is almost nothing new left to say about the urgent need to reduce our devastating impact on the biosphere that supports us. In architectural terms, we have been told since the 1960s that mainstream architecture is not engaged enough with the environmental consequences of what it produces and how it produces it. The usual approach is to ......
In twelve engaging essays, William Fulton chronicles the history of urban planning in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, tracing the legacy of short-sighted political and financial gains that has resulted in a vast urban region on the brink of disaster. Looking at such diverse topics as shady real estate speculations, the construction of the Los ......
Re-creation of the European City investigates the position of regions and cities both within Europe, and in a global context. It addresses the challenges that cities and city regions currently encounter: reconciling economic growth, dynamism, and creativity while at the same time countering segregation and social and spatial exclusion. The ......
How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing
Too many U.S. cities and towns have been focused on a model of economic development that relies on recruiting one big company (such as Amazon), a single industry (usually in technology), or pursuing other narrow or short-term fixes that are inequitable and unsustainable.
Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950(POD)
In the first geographic and environmental analysis of the recreational and retirement community industry, Hubert B. Stroud shows how and why certain communities had positive impacts on the surrounding region while others did not. Focusing on well-known developments in Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Arkansas, and Tennessee, he finds that most ......
