Urban Design, Planning and Housing

The first book to advocate using computational design to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, or computational urbanism.

In Food City, a companion piece to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, innovative architect and urban designer CJ Lim explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been and can again become a construct for the practice of everyday life.

Suitable for those involved in the planning system, this title helps learn real lessons from the antics of Grotton's inhabitants.

Brings together the classic writings and contemporary literature that has helped to define the field of Gentrification, changed the direction of how it is studied and illustrated the points of conflict and consensus that are distinctive of gentrification research.

Cities in the Arab world are too diverse and hybrid to be lumped together as a single, arbitrary group. This title includes six case-study cities that support that contention.

Outlining how the crisis in housing markets has arisen, this title presents an analysis that considers the causes of house price bubbles and the reason for the collapse in markets worldwide. It explains the ways in which future booms and busts can be mitigated and how the lessons of this housing bubble can be - finally - learnt.