City Planning category: 1330 books
Planning for the Unplanned
Recovering from Crises in Megacities
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Dominique Lorrain
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Megacities are a new phenomenon in history. The fact that many of them are in emerging countries deepens the challenges of governing these spaces. Can these vast, complex entities, rife with inequalities and divisions, be governed effectively? For researchers, the answer has often been no. The approach...
China's Emerging Cities
The Making of New Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development.
Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the...
by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.
Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to...
Capital Spaces
The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space through commerical developments like...
Alternative Urban Futures
Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book deals with planning issues in landscape architecture, which start at the evaluation of the existing fabric of society, its history and memory, approached and conserved through photography, film and scenographic installations, a way in which the archetypes can be investigated, be it industrial...
Sites of Governance
Multilevel Governance and Policy Making in Canada's Big Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Policies forged by all levels of government affect the lives of urban residents. Contributors to this volume explore how intergovernmental relations shape urban policies and how various social forces are involved in - or excluded from - the policy process. Focusing on diverse policy fields including...
by Bruce Hensler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created...
Changing Course in Urban Transport
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This illustrated guide provides a rich collection of images of sustainable urban transport initiatives from around the world. It considers the transport problems evident in many cities in Asia, including high levels of energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, congestion, road casualties, urban...
There Goes the Hood
Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: how does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out, Freeman does what no scholar before him has done. He interviews the indigenous residents of two predominantly black neighborhoods...
Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States
From Adjustment to Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Accession to the EU in May 2004 was a historic milestone for the spatial and urban development of the new member states. Meanwhile, the social and economic transition during the pre-accession phase already brought about radical changes in national urban systems and new challenges for regional development....
Mobility and Environment
Humanists versus Engineers in Urban Policy and Professional Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Mobility and Environment calls for a mobility revolution which does not simply mean taking a bus instead of a car: it implies a dramatic shift in the political debate from a technical to a political culture. The author introduces his book by disputing “non-political” Sustainable Development policies...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written...