This book explores incentives capable of enhancing the effectiveness of urban planning systems in Sub-Saharan Africa using economic theory as a framework. It will be useful reading for researchers, policy-makers, development agencies and students in urban planning, sustainable development and economics.

This book examines the street naming processes that have shaped and reshaped the semantic, textual and visual environments of urban sub-Saharan African cities, with comparative examples of additional cities beyond the subcontinent.

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East.

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment. However, while cultural mega-events like the European Capital of Culture have become increasingly popular, cities have begun questioning the traditional model of other events such as the Olympic Games with many candidate cities cancelling bids in recent years. This approach to planning and developing cities through mega-events introduces a broad range of physical effects and nuanced institutional changes for cities, particularly for the more sensitive heritage areas of...

Over the last three decades, historic housing areas have become one of the major concerns in urban regeneration, housing renovation and conservation projects.

American Colonisation and the City Beautiful explores the history of city planning and the evolution of the built environment in the Philippines between 1916 and 1935. In so doing, it highlights the activities of the Bureau of Public Works’ Division of Architecture as part of Philippine national development and decolonisation.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

Post-Socialist Urban Infrastructures critically elaborates on an often forgotten, but one of the most essential, aspects of contemporary urban life, namely infrastructures, and links them to a discussion of post-socialist transformation.

This book presents insight into the design and practical results of obligations in different countries and their effects on municipal financial health, demonstrating the increasing importance of efficient bargaining processes and the　institutional design of developer obligations in urban planning.

An alternative view of Islamic cities that challenges the Western conception of them as labyrinthine