Planning & Urban Design

Nicola Dempsey, editor of Place-Keeping: Open Space Management in Practice talks about the book's key insights and its aim to address place-keeping as a multi-faceted concept.

Join the editors for a panel discussion celebrating the publication The People, Place, and Space Reader.

Date: 2/19/2015 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Skylight Room, CUNY Graduate Center

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Author Susanna Hagan discusses her recently published book, Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City.

Tony Fry, author of City Futures in the Age of a Changing Climate, discusses the threats to the future of cities in this our dawning age of climate related disasters and conflicts.

Edited by Michael Burayidi

Resilience is the ability of a city to bounce back from an unforeseen catastrophe. Resilient cities are able to snap back to their previous state after a disaster and even develop the capacity to withstand future shocks. Knowing what to do prior to, during and after a disaster is critical to the recovery and resilience of a city. Read more here ...

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This collection is part of the Critical Concepts in Built Environment series. Other Major Work collections publishing in this series include: Planning Theory, Mobilities, Public Space, Urban Landscape and Healthy Cities

Author Margaret Cowell talks about her recently published book, Dealing with Deindustrialization, and how the ‘reshoring’ of manufacturing jobs extends the book's focus on the deindustrialization of the Midwest during the 1970s and '80s.

Join us for a live webinar on 31st March 2015.

We are pleased to present our latest books, covering a wide range of key areas within Planning and Urban Design for students, instructors, researchers, and professors. View the catalog online here or download the PDF here.