This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment, providing a better understanding of this new

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.

The city at its best is an eco-community. Urbanization is not only a social and cultural fact of historic proportions; it is a tremendous ecological fact as wel

Hong Kong is a city without ground. This is true both physically (built on steep slopes, the city has no ground plane) and culturally (there is no concept of gr

American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. City residents traveling thr