How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the ...

Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking ...

Larry Beasley, former co-chief planner or the city of Vancouver and a leader at the heart of the action, tells the story of Vancouverism and the urban planning philosophy and practice behind it. Writing ...

As gentrification threatens to uproot neighbourhoods across the world, the flame of co-operative housing has been reignited. Meanwhile, community land ownership has the potential to turn the tide and ...

Deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative project on regional governance in Canada and Europe.

Governing Cities through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of ...

Green City: People, Nature, and Urban Places looks at eleven cities the world over to see how people and nature have interacted over the course of history, and how people attempt to bring nature into ...

The suburbs house two-thirds of North America’s population and are the subject of much debate and criticism. Planning the New Suburbia explores this phenomenon and proposes ways to respond to the challenge ...