Environment & Urbanization

World leading environmental and urban studies journal

Book notes

This book seeks to make sense of many changes China has undergone in recent decades, which have reshaped the nature of Chinese urbanism: privatization, decentralization, state-led business and industrialization.

This book compares Berlin and Los Angeles, the “homeless capitals” of Germany and the United States. The comparison is appropriate as both countries have a good deal of devolved local authority, but with differences in social welfare regimes.

This book addresses the conceptual, practical and research challenges that contemporary pedagogy faces when adopting transdisciplinary approaches and a relational perspective to public space.

This is a UK-focused sociological account of gentrification. Its theoretical foundation is hegemony and its practical component is ethnography.

In 1898, Garden Cities of To-morrow – the peaceful path to reform was published. The movement that book sparked led to the first-ever Garden City, Letchworth (UK).

Accountability is a concept many refer to without much attention to its meaning. In The Political Economy of Aid and Accountability, Helen Tilley, a research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, critically scrutinizes this concept.

Forming part of the  “Another city is possible” series written in anticipation of the Habitat III conference in Quito in 2016, this collection of 23 case files on participatory budgeting (PB) challenges dominant conceptions of urban futures for cities in a way that goes beyond anecdotal experimen

This bilingual book offers a view into the current state of Austrian landscape architecture as illustrated by the Nextland collection.

This guide manages to concisely describe urban policies dealt with by government and non-governmental actors. These shape and are shaped by numerous social, economic, political and ecological challenges that are particular to urban living.

This report is based on summaries and background papers of a meeting held in Bellagio, Italy in October 2014.

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