City Planning category: 1330 books
Children and their Urban Environment
Changing Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed to ensure that...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book – result of an international conference – purposes to promote a discussion between researchers on issue concerning urban sprawl and the impacts that sprawl has on the environment, economy and society in general, as well as the costs that this urban form implies. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: the...
Retrofitting Sprawl
Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing...
Drought and Water Crises
Integrating Science, Management, and Policy, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Over the past decade there have been extraordinary advances towards drought risk reduction with the development of new water-conserving technologies, and new tools for planning, vulnerability and impact assessment, mitigation, and policy. Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management,...
Comparative Metropolitan Policy
Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain...
by Souleymane Coulibaly, Uwe Deichmann, William R. Dillinger
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Faced with changing economic circumstances and a reorientation of trade toward Europe and Asia, will Eurasia’s cities be able to adjust? Will some cities be granted the flexible regulations and supportive policies necessary for growth? And will some others be allowed to dwindle with policies put in...
by Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban...
Game
The Segmentation, Implementation and Protection of Land Rights in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution of land property rights and transfer mechanism during the transition of the Chinese society from being a traditional self-sustaining agricultural society to a modern commercialized agricultural society. It provides empirical proof for complicated...
by Rémy Bourdillon, Pierre-Yves Cezard, Nicolas Charette
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Un dossier sur le thème des régénérescences spirituelles, urbaines ou environnementales qui vous propose des réflexions et éclairages variés sur le thème des nouveaux départs, des résiliences, des régénérations personnelles ou collectives.
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book gives accounts of different strategies showing an impact on urban safety and security in European and non-European cities – being it the main goal or only a “secondary effect” of the observed urban policies, and being their result effective or only perceived. The essays describe the...
Hollow Land
Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation
This new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over...
Towards an Articulated Phenomenological Interpretation of Architecture
Phenomenal Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
This book sheds light on the contemporary status of phenomenological discourse in architecture and investigates its current scholastic as well as practical position. Starting with a concise introduction to the philosophical grounds of phenomenology from the points of view of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty...
Studies in Temporal Urbanism
The urbanTick Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This book is very much about what the name urbanTick literally says, about the ticking of the urban, the urban as we experience it everyday on the bus, in the park or between buildings. It is about the big orchestrated mass migration of commuters, the seasonal blossoms of the trees along the walkway...
by Jorge Atiles, Mira Ahn, Akin S. Akinyemi
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This foundational text for understanding housing, housing design, homeownership, housing policy, special topics in housing, and housing in a global context has been comprehensively revised to reflect the changed housing situation in the United States during and after the Great Recession and its subsequent...