City Planning category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into...
by Simone Abram
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In planning debates, culture is often treated as a fixed element, either as a quasi-economic resource or as a category of behaviour. Yet a wealth of research and analysis is available that moves the spotlight from the question of what culture is, towards understanding what we are doing when we talk...
Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
History, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The development of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past half-century illustrates the changing relationships among federal, state, and local governments. This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s...
by Carlos Nunes Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrÃncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis...
by Neil Powe, Trevor Hart
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Change is inevitable in all communities: they both grow and decline. Planning is a means by which we have sought to manage this change. It has not always succeeded in providing the types of settlements and environments which many residents and others want, either because it is operating with the wrong...
by Walter Firey
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
From the beginnings of human association, social planning has been an accepted method for effecting improvements in community, regional, and national life. In Law and Economy in Planning, Walter Firey has made a start in the development of an intellectual framework that will give meaning to the craft...
Building Resilient Cities in China: The Nexus between Planning and Science
Selected Papers from the 7th International Association for China Planning Conference, Shanghai, China, June 29 – July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications....
Planning the American Indian Reservation
From Theory to Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
American Indian reservation planning is one of the most challenging and poorly understood specializations within the American planning profession. Charged with developing a strategy to protect irreplaceable tribal homelands that have been repeatedly diminished over the ages through unjust public policy...
Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning
Case Study of an Australian Outer Sydney Growth Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed...
by The Worldwatch Institute
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Cities are the world's future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow. Will we invest in the physical and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinary...
Cities of Knowledge
Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning brings together contributions from leaders in landscape, transportation, and urban planning. They present case studies - from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa - that ground the exploration of ideas in the realities of sustainable urban...
Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning
Selected Papers from the 8th International Association for China Planning Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 21 - 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and...