City Planning category: 1330 books
by Duncan Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This is an insightful study of spatial planning and housing strategy in London, focusing on the period 2000-2008 and the Mayoralty of Ken Livingstone. Duncan Bowie presents a detailed analysis of the development of Livingstone’s policies and their consequences.
Examining the theory and practice...
by Percy Johnson-Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593 to the innovative achievements of planners and designers of the twentieth century....
Eco-city Planning
Policies, Practice and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach....
Battery Park City
Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Time has become an increasingly important topic in urban studies and urban planning. The spatial-temporal interplay is not only of relevance for the theory of urban development and urban politics, but also for urban planning and governance. The space-time approach focuses on the human being with its...
Infrastructure Planning and Finance
A Smart and Sustainable Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure...
by Yongjie Sha, Jiang Wu, Yan Ji
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book focuses on observing and understanding the urban planning and relevant development patterns applied to the creation of urban districts against the backdrop of the current rapid urbanization and transformation of Shanghai on its way to becoming a world city. Based on a review of the four...
Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility
Global Report on Human Settlements 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for...
American Urban Form
A Representative History
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.
American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings,...
Market Cities, People Cities
The Shape of Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen
How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson...
Paradise Plundered
Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp...
The Global City and the Holy City
Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Windows Upon Planning History delves into a wide range of perspectives on urbanism from Europe, Australia and the USA to investigate the effects of changing perceptions and different ways of seeing cities and urban regions. Fischer, Altrock and a team of 13 distinguished authors examine how and why...
State of the World's Cities 2012/2013
Prosperity of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a locus...