Public Produce
Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities, Revised Edition
An updated look at the advantages and possibilities of urban agriculture in public spaces.
Segmented Cities?
How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics
This book examines how urbanization and pluralization are shaping the world’s cities and what can be done to encourage integration and minimize ethnic and nationalist tensions.
Indigenous in the City
Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation
This book explores the complexity of urban Indigeneity in Canada and internationally and positions urban areas as places of Indigenous resilience and cultural innovation.
Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010
An engaging study of the rapid urbanization of a former village subsumed by the expanding city of Hanoi.
How to Study Public Life
Methods in Urban Design
The Hidden Potential of Sustainable Neighborhoods
Lessons from Low-Carbon Communities
Measuring Urban Design
Metrics for Livable Places
Inventing Stanley Park
An Environmental History
A timely exploration of how the interplay between attitudes toward nature, parks policy, public memory, and the force of nature helped shape one of the world’s most famous urban parks.
Designing Suburban Futures
New Models from Build a Better Burb
Social Transformation in Rural Canada
Community, Cultures, and Collective Action
A series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.
Planning as if People Matter
Governing for Social Equity
This book goes beyond theory to give real-world examples of how better planning can level inequities.
Stewardship of the Built Environment
Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse
Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.
The Shape of Green
Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design
The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made.
Climate and Conservation
Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action
Climate and Conservation offers readers tangible, place-based examples of projects designed to protect large landscapes as a means of conserving biodiversity in the face of the looming threat of global climate change.
Green Cities of Europe
Global Lessons on Green Urbanism
With Green Cities of Europe, Beatley offers the North American planning community not only a vision of holistic sustainability, but a clear guide to accomplishing it at home.
Human Transit
How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich OurCommunities and Our Lives
This book explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development.
City Rules
How Regulations Affect Urban Form
City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities.
Making Healthy Places
Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability
Making Healthy Places presents a diagnosis of-and offers treatment for-problems related to the built environment.
Rediscovering Thomas Adams
Rural Planning and Development in Canada
This updated reprint of a classic text offers a revealing glimpse into the past and an insightful perspective on the present state of planning and development in Canada.
The Agile City
Building Well-Being and Wealth in an Era of Climate Change
In a very short time, America realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: What to do about it?
Towards 0-Impact Buildings and Built Environments
A compilation of key notes and best papers of the 2010 Sustainable Building Euregional Conference.
Sustainability in America's Cities
Creating the Green Metropolis
This book highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment.
Architecture of Community
A seminal work by a renowned architect and planner that provides a contemporary roadmap for designing or completing today's fragmented communities.
Perverse Cities
Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl
Distorted price signals and flawed public policy create powerful and largely hidden perverse subsidies and incentives that promote urban sprawl.
Women and Property in Urban India
An intimate exploration of the opportunities and constraints faced by low-income women in Ahmedabad, as throughout the Global South, in securing access to landed property.
The Sprawl Repair Manual
The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable, economical, energy- and resource-efficient patterns, from the region and the community to the block and the individual building.