Vad är hållbar samhällsplanering? I grund och botten syftar samhällsplaneringen till att garantera alla en långsiktigt hållbar, rättvis och trygg tillvaro. Det handlar om att välja väg för framtiden och att på ett klokt sätt möta utmaningarna till f…

Om grannskapet kan vara en del av samhällets integration är en ständigt aktuell fråga. Här beskrivs hur olika ideal har dominerat vid olika tidsperioder, vilka olika teoretiska ansatser och bakomliggande antaganden som görs samt vilka empiriska stöd…

Stockholms Gartnersällskap har utsett samt Stadsträdslexikon av Henrik Sjöman och Johan Slagstedt till Årets Trädgårdsbok 2016 Vikten av grönska i våra städer kan inte överskattas. Speciellt är vackra välmående träd en förutsättning för att såväl m…

In the 3rd edition of the leading introductory textbook to planning theory, Allmendinger provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of planning theories, how these relate to planning practice, and their significance. Moving away from a linear,…

In the 3rd edition of the leading introductory textbook to planning theory, Allmendinger provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of planning theories, how these relate to planning practice, and their significance. Moving away from a linear,…

In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of people-en…

If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take…

Vad händer när arkitekten inte längre är något annat än finanskapitalismens lilla köttsliga AI-algoritm?Den fjärde urbana revolutionen är en bok om Angereds plats. I historien. I världen. I tankesystemen och i maktstrukturerna. Om du följer med så g…

Photographer Christopher Herwig first noticed the unusual architecture of Soviet-era bus stops during a 2002 long-distance bike ride from London to St. Petersburg. Challenging himself to take one good photograph every hour, Herwig began to notice su…

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world.We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for woman as mother…

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for woman as mothe…

Det saknas idag kunskap om hur människor med olika bakgrund och förutsättningar använder kollektivtrafiken och vad resandet betyder i deras liv. Kan funktionshindrade nå tågets plattform på ett säkert sätt, ungdomar i förorten utan krångel ta sig ti…

Vi lever i en massmobil tid utan motstycke. På nolltid slungar vi oss själva genom landskap och överflyger kontinenter och oceaner. I Fartrusiga berättar Björn Forsberg om männi­skans långa färd från en trögrörlig, långsam värld till dess raka motsa…

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory. * Represe…

Inspired by women's struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientif…

This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The te…

Urbanisering är en mångfacetterad process som omfattar befolknings­struktur, företagande, myndighetslokalisering, handel, medie­bevakning, kulturliv och kommunal service. Allt detta urbaniseras såväl av stat och regioner som av kommunerna själva gen…

Städer präglas idag av starka krafter som globalisering, klimatförändringar, segregation och regionalisering. Över hela världen diskuteras hur dessa utmaningar ska mötas och lösningar formuleras i olika stadsbyggnadsideal – urbanismer. Dominer…

Din bostadsnära utemiljö är tänkt som ett uppslagsverk för dig som arbetar med förvaltning av utemiljöer i bostadsbolag, bostadsrättsföreningar och samfälligheter. Är du en av alla de som arbetar med utemiljöfrågor som en deltidssysselsättning och i…

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane…

The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane…

En av samtidens största utmaningar är att ordna boende åt alla Sveriges invånare. Landet ska få hundratusentals nya bostäder under den närmaste tioårsperioden. Debatten om hur det ska gå till blir alltmer laddad. Det planerade bostadsbyggandet är vä…

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who…

For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, pol…

Ekosystemtjänster uppmärksammas alltmer som ett viktigt inslag för en hållbar utveckling av städer och samhällen. Dessa handlar inte bara om ett miljö- och biodiversitetsperspektiv, utan också om hur ekosystemen bidrar till människans livsmiljö och…

Stunning photographs of Soviet Metro Stations from across the former states of the USSR and Russia itself, many of which have never previously been documented For us, said Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, 'there was something supernatural about th…

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents hi…

Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur. Drawing on related disciplines, including sociology, risk theory, and seminal researc…

The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly-a reference to the fact that Balt…

Det offentliga rummet ? våra gator och torg ? fyller en viktig politisk funktion. Det gör samhällets konflikter och ojämlikheter synliga och är en förutsättning för kollektiva uttryck som demonstrationer och gatufester.? Men vad händer med det offen…

Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and…

How we can invent-but not predict-the future of cities.We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economi…

This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.

This wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and is comprehensively updated to take account of the issues and concepts at stake in 21st century urban theory.

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to a…

We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn't seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us…

De tidiga skedena inför och under planeringen av bygg- eller anläggningsprojekt är ofta avgörande för projektets framgång. I dag planeras och byggs bostäder, samhällsservice och infrastruktur i en takt och omfattning som vi inte upplevt sedan sextio…

This engaging and practical guide is a much-needed new textbook that illustrates the power of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis. Today's planner has a wealth of data available to them, much of which is increasingly linked to…

This engaging and practical guide is a much-needed new textbook that illustrates the power of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis. Today's planner has a wealth of data available to them, much of which is increasingly linked to…

Den här boken handlar om de tekniska systemen i tätorterna med tanke på framtida uthållighet. Den tar upp historia, dagsläge och tendenser. Alla funktioner i samhället är beroende av att flöden av människor, material och meddelanden fungerar. Boken…

Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential…

On the heels of his bestselling Soviet Bus Stops, photographer Christopher Herwig locates fresh wonders of the Soviet vernacular in Georgia, Ukraine and Russia itselfAfter the popular and critical success of his first book, Soviet Bus Stops, photogr…

Addresses the Challenges Facing Public Transport Policy Makers and OperatorsPublic Transit Planning and Operation: Modeling, Practice and Behavior, Second Edition offers new solutions for delivering both better services and greater efficiency, solut…

This issue of Public Culture attempts to overturn perceptions that frame Africa as an object apart from the rest of the world. By placing the city of Johannesburg-the preeminent metropolis of the African continent and a city facing a complicated leg…

This issue of Public Culture attempts to overturn perceptions that frame Africa as an object apart from the rest of the world. By placing the city of Johannesburg-the preeminent metropolis of the African continent and a city facing a complicated leg…

Across Western cities, there is an increasing obsession with producing manicured landscapes. Standing in contrast to these aesthetically and socially regulated spaces are the neglected sites of industrial ruins, places on the margin which accommodat…

Community involvement in planning and placemaking throughearly, inclusive participatory Charrette processes can build consensus, speedup planning and add social, economic and environmental value to projects,leading to healthier, happier and more sus…

Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days,…

Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days,…

Stockholm är en stad vid vatten som erbjuder sina invånare möjlighet att bo nära vattenlinjen och njuta av naturen.Mot bakgrund av den snabba temperaturökning som sker globalt, med stigande havsnivåer, stormar och översvämningar, är det mer angeläge…

Världen regionaliseras! I den moderna regionforskningen återkommer starka berättelser om hur nya, starkare och mer autonoma regioner växer fram. Till förändringen kopplas ledord som globalisering och ökad konkurrens som ställer nya krav på regionern…

Med antologin Medborgardialog – om det svåra i att mötas fortsätter Arkus att bidra till kunskaps- utveckling inom det angelägna temat medborgardialog.Medborgardialog – om det svåra i att mötas är ett utomordentligt bra exempel på när te…

Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation il…

Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation il…

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy floods devastated coastal areas in New York and New Jersey. In 2017, Harvey flooded Houston.Today in Miami, even on sunny days, king tides bring fish swimming through the streets in low-lying areas. These typesof events are…

Peter Hall s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth e…

Framtidens städer måste byggas hållbart enligt FNs hållbarhetsmål. EU ­har därför ­beslutat att vår energi­användning ska minskas med 20 procent till år 2020 och i Sverige förbereds för införande av högre ­krav än så.Vilka hinder och möjligheter fin…