City Planning category: 1330 books
by Henry J. Pratt, Ronald Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement and its secular counterpart, the Progressive movement, set the stage for powerful church and city governance connections. What followed during the next 100 years was the emergence of religious bodies as an important instrument for influencing City Hall...
by Lewis Mumford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.
Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The...
by Isolde Brade, Konstantin Axenov, Evgenij Bondarchuk
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism. Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and post-communist transition, this significant book considers...
Whose land is our land?
The use and abuse of Britain's forgotten acres
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying...
by Steve Mannheim
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities. His development concept at the time of his death on December 15th, 1966 would be his team’s conceptual response to the ills of the inner cities and the sprawl of the megalopolis: the Experimental...
Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods
An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities.
The University and Urban Revival
Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards....
Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space
Lasting Legacies?
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa,...
Housing politics in the United Kingdom
Power, planning and protest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
With rapid population growth, a long-term dearth in new housing construction, the emergence of ‘generation rent’ and rising homelessness, the issue of housing in the UK is considered complex, open-ended and intractable. Using insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social...
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects
Building Resilient Regions
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan...
Participatory Governance
Planning, Conflict Mediation and Public Decision-Making in Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In recent years a new participatory governance dynamic has been redefining relationships and responsibilities in the planning and implementation of policies and programs. Participatory governance not only crosses public, private and associational sectors, but is also intra-organizational. It allows...
Mitigating Climate Change
The Emerging Face of Modern Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
With ever increasing trends in urban consumption and production practices, a call for action to mitigate Climate Change is often seen as a way to foster sustainable development. Considerable attention is now being paid to determine what urban sustainability would include. Today there is a pressing...
by Fabio Cutaia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book explores the opportunities offered by Strategic Environmental Assessment in the context of guaranteeing the synchronized integration of landscape (in all its aspects) within urban plans, thereby helping to overcome the constraints of rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and a purely aesthetic...