City Planning category: 1330 books
The Creative City
A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles Landry's highly influential text has been updated with a new, extensive overview.
by Richard Register
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately the city has to be a major focus of attention.EcoCities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecological principles for the long term sustainability...
Places Women Make
Unearthing the contribution of women to our cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
"Places Women Make" tells stories of women shaping the Australian city - its buildings, spaces, and social and political agendas. Jane Jose takes a fresh look at city life, great places and the unsung urban heroines who made them. She explores the design of cities, the places we need and...
Stronger Than Steel
Forging a Rust Belt Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Stronger than Steel is the story of a company town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that used alternative economic development strategies, including arts, tourism, and a casino to propel its way out of devastation of deindustrialization. Bethlehem’s strategies have been rewarded with dramatic results.
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The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being
Shaping a sustainable and healthy future
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Urban planning is deeply implicated in both the planetary crisis of climate change and the personal crises of unhealthy lifestyles. Worldwide health issues such as obesity, mental illness, growing health inequalities and climate vulnerability cannot be solved solely by medicines but also by tackling...
Localism and neighbourhood planning
Power to the people?
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Governments around the world are seeing the locality as a key arena for effecting changes in governance, restructuring state/civil society relations and achieving sustainable growth. This is the first book to critically analyse this shift towards localism in planning through exploring neighbourhood...
Public Participation as a Tool for Integrating Local Knowledge into Spatial Planning
Planning, Participation, and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book provides a state of the art approach to participatory planning, and generates innovative thought in planning theory and knowledge study. The book introduces a new conceptual framework for participatory planning, one which redefines concepts that have been taken for granted for too long:...
Selling EthniCity
Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in...
The Politics of Civic Space in Asia
Building Urban Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance...
Planning Sustainable Cities
Global Report on Human Settlements 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
The volume brings together contributions by leading scholars and young academics with experience in the urban potential of the territory in situations not necessarily linked to the dense metropolis, its compact form or to city sprawl. What brings these scholars together is their common reflection...
New Labour and Planning
From New Right to New Left
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Following the Thatcher and Major administrations there was an apparent renaissance of planning under New Labour. After a slow start in which Labour’s view of planning owed more to a neo-liberal, rolled back state model reminiscent of the New Right the Government began to appreciate that many of...
Making Strategies in Spatial Planning
Knowledge and Values
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2010
This provocative collection of essays challenges traditional ideas of strategic s- tial planning and opens up new avenues of analysis and research. The diversity of contributions here suggests that we need to rethink spatial planning in several f- reaching ways. Let me suggest several avenues of such...
Rethinking Urban Transitions
Politics in the Low Carbon City
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Rethinking Urban Transitions provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research, undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with analysing and shaping urban sustainability...