In recognition of the shared challenge facing a range of professionals, RUDI, the newly formed Urban Intelligence Network and the Institute of Place Management (IPM) have put together a new publication with one key purpose:
to remind ourselves that even though things may currently be tough economically, our towns and cities have a bigger role in society than just providing us with a place to shop.

This book offers practical solutions to achieving sustainable urban design and development, and helps designers communicate these solutions effectively to planners, developers and policy makers.

Designing Sustainable Cities covers

latest research data on the urban environment and the interaction between social, economic and environmental issues

methods of understanding the context in which urban design takes place

guidance on the codes of practice

process maps to help understand the context, make trade-offs and develop design solutions that allow for change

methods for testing the consequences of design proposals and monitoring outcomes.

A unique atlas of city plans from ancient to modern
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The Genealogy of Cities is a compilation of ancient and modern city plans, from 350 BCE to the present, depicting both built and proposed plans. Written in clear and accessible prose, it is illustrated with more than 500 plans drawn at the same scale, a unique feature of this work. It provides a previously unavailable tool for academics and professionals who must grapple with the issue of scale in researching and teaching urban design or when creating new urban spaces. Author Charles P. Graves Jr. created these computer-generated plans to provide a method of understanding models for modern cities while also creating a series of typological diagrams for both historical periods and city fabric. Also included in this volume is a CD containing nearly 1000 plans that will allow the user to print the urban plans at any scale.

Urban land is an increasingly precious commodity, particularly in the centre of major cities. Every spare corner of land is in demand, however small, inaccessible or awkwardly shaped. For architects the challenge is to optimize these sites while simultaneously negotiating the web of planning regulations, to create homes suited to today’s lifestyles.

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New Start is the toolkit for regeneration professionals. Every month it informs and inspires subscribers with a mixture of practical learning and best practice case studies; in depth investigations; analysis and debate from our unrivalled range of columnists.

New Start is completely independent, trusted and valued by its readers and its partners across the public and private sectors. Partners including the Sustainable Communities Excellence Network, CABE, the Chartered Institute of Housing engage with New Start as a vital part of their communication strategies.

With extensive content about placemaking, urban design and sustainability, New Start is a valuable resource that RUDI members can read free for three months at no risk.

PLACEmaking | 2009 | RUDI

Editor: Juliana O'Rourke

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A synthesis of professional practice and case studies about better living environments. The 2nd annual publication of Placemaking presents the art of 'making places' - the processes, dynamics and complexities of design for sustainable living environments are intimated by professionals and academics

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Climate change is changing the context of planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened the environmental dimension of spatial planning and has become a new rationale for coordinating actions and integrating different policy priorities. This book provides authoritative guidance for spatial planners on how to meet the economic, social and environmental challenges that climate change raises for urban and regional development.

This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban cities in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and propose innovative agendas for adaptation. The book should be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change vulnerability and adaptation in urban centres throughout the global South.

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	Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges author: Jane Bicknell,David Dodman,David Satterthwaite ASIN or ISBN-10: 1844077462

It is time to move beyond the automobile age. The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental and urban health disaster unless alternatives are found. While public transport has worked well in the dense cores of some big cities, the problem is that most residents of developed countries now live in dispersed suburbs and smaller cities and towns.

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	Transport for Suburbia author: Paul Mees ASIN or ISBN-10: 1844077403

Much has been written recently on the relationship between energy and the environment, as well as between energy and development. Yet to study these separately gives only a partial, distorted picture. In the first edition of this book, Professor Goldemberg pioneered the study of all three elements in relation to one another. With contributions from Oswaldo Lucon, this second edition has been expanded and updated. The book starts by examining energy, relating it to human activities, to existing natural resources and to development indicators.

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	Energy, Environment and Development author: Jose Goldemberg,Oswaldo Lucon ASIN or ISBN-10: 1844077497