City Planning category: 1330 books
by Ran Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making...
by Manuel Guardia
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The relationship between culture and urbanism has been the focus of much discussion and debate in recent years. While globalisation tends towards a homogeneity, successful 'global cities' have a strong individual - and particularly cultural - identity. The economic value of the culture of cities lies...
Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement
Practicable Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning and environmental quality management has been widely adopted by governments worldwide. Fully revised and updated with a new preface by editors Donald...
Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
Cities, Policies, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
This book argues that the concepts of ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘neoliberalisation,’ while in common use across the whole range of social sciences, have thus far been generally overlooked in planning theory and the analysis of planning practice. Offering insights from papers presented during a conference...
City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems
Technologies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Cities are becoming the wealth producing centers of national economies. Increasing the operational efficiency of the city will bring a competitive edge to the whole system. Yet, many city subsystems cannot work together, creating significant problems and inefficiencies. City Competitiveness and Improving...
by B W Namano
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language: English, abstract: The purpose of the study was to establish how...
by William M. Rohe, Lauren B. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighborhoods through local organizations. They also assist residents in reviewing projects developed by city agencies. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighborhood planning programs and in-depth case...
State of the World's Cities 2008/9
Harmonious Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order...
Water and the City
Risk, Resilience and Planning for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants. The relationship is complex however; we need both continual availability and protection from its potential impacts. Over recent decades...
Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development
Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities...
by Hok-Lin Leung
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions. It seeks to develop a set of coherent planning principles by drawing out useful and generally applicable...
by Muhammad Rayan, Edward Gyan, Ivaldi Lukman
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: Good, University of Stuttgart (Master of Infrastructure Planning), course: Case study, language: English, abstract: The County of Ludwigsburg, with the City of Ludwigsburg as its capital, is located at the core of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from international expos to local public halls. The agendas of the promoters varied, but exhibitions generally...
Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future
The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed,...