City Planning category: 1330 books
Megacity Slums
Social Exclusion, Space and Urban Policies in Brazil and India
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues. In Delhi, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the challenges they pose have spurred public actors into...
Metropolitan Philadelphia
Living with the Presence of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban...
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and...
City Politics
The Political Economy of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Praised for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme – that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity – City Politics remains a classic study of urban politics. Its...
Urban Villager
Life in an Indian Satellite Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Urban Villager is a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an ‘urban villager’ in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to...
Addiction, Modernity, and the City
A Users’ Guide to Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and...
Montreal, City of Water
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Built within an exceptional watershed, Montreal is intertwined with the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks. Montreal, City of Water focuses on water not only as a physical element – both shaping and shaped by urban development – but also as a sociocultural...
Growing Urban Economies
Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in...
Realising the city
Urban ethnography in Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance.
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
Movements at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental...
Globalization and the City
Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide,...
The Real Las Vegas
Life Beyond the Strip
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas? Mobsters and showgirls, magicians and tigers, multimillion-dollar poker games and prizefights; towering signboards that light up the night in front of ever more spectacular casino hotels. But real people live here, too--over a million today, two...
by Al Hurd, A-P Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized measurement, frameworks that support innovation, regulatory alignment, reducing consumption, reuse...