Library guides
Subject: MultidisciplinaryCity management and urban planning
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, urban planning is the "design and regulation of the uses of space that focus on the physical form, economic functions, and social impacts of the urban environment and on the location of different activities within it. Because urban planning draws upon engineering, architectural, and social and political concerns, it is variously a technical profession, an endeavour involving political will and public participation, and an academic discipline". A science that can be studied from different points of view, which at the same time are complementary, such as architecture, law, geography, economics or sociology. Below we provide a monograph to introduce the nature of the urban planning approach and management of cities in more depth.
Discussing platforms and initiatives
Given expectations over the next few years of an enormous increase of the population in cities and urban settlements, numerous initiatives have emerged that seek to debate and propose some foundations for 21st century urban development that ensure planned urbanization, sustainability and the technological development of urban settlements.
Initiative of the Ministry of Development and Housing of the Andalusian Government to reflect on the improvement of urban and territorial habitability through sustainable social design.
An initiative from the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) that monitors the processes to renovate public spaces in European cities.
Platform of dialogue, exchange and learning for the development of cities, coordinated by UN-Habitat.
Space for the promotion of projects and events linked with the experience of life in the cities, from a critical perspective.
An organization promoting debate on sustainable urban development. The web portal publishes articles analysing urban planning, transport and other issues.
European programme of exchange, learning and, above all, proposing solutions for sustainable urban development. Part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
UN-Habitat encourages each country to organize its own National Urban Forums (NUF). These forums are meetings of debate to promote urban improvements and establish a way forward.
Collaborative network of research and learning centres and universities, specialized in urban planning.
Research and training group that studies urban planning from the most social perspective.
A web page with information on workshops and debates on urban planning.
A project from the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out studies and research focusing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment.
Project encompassing an international network of researchers from European and Latin American universities who study the evolution of citizenry and urban geography and analyse and compare urban planning policies in Europe and Latin America.
The most visited website on city and urban planning in Latin America.
A federation with the mission "to overcome inequality and build a fairer urban reality" through work and debate on urban and territorial planning.
Librarians responsible for this library guide
Elisabet Cervera
Operative subgroup: Librarian for Law and Political Science, Doctoral School Operative group: Library for Learning
