City Planning category: 1330 books
Mediterranean Urbanism
Historic Urban / Building Rules and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This book brings together historic urban / building rules and codes for the geographic areas including Greece, Italy and Spain. The author achieved his ambitious goal of finding pertinent rules and codes that were followed in previous societies for the processes that formed the built environment of...
by Rajib Shaw, Atta-ur-Rahman, Akhilesh Surjan
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional...
Urban Informality
Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
'Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics. Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on nontraditional topics, including the new institutionalism, network governance, and urban leadership…...
Altering Practices
Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts,...
To Scale
One Hundred Urban Plans
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
How big is Moscow‘s Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there fewer public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might be found in the plan of Savannah, Georgia‘s historic district? To Scale is a collection of plans of urban spaces drawn at the same scale to help answer these questions by providing a single and ac
Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures
Australia and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning...
Fields of Authority
Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and...
by Mark Deakin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Illustrated with empirical case studies from Europe, Africa and North America, this book provides an overview of the wide range of innovative methodologies, models and instruments currently being applied in the formation of and implementation of land management strategies. It examines techniques such...
by Jianbo Ma
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The book describes how land plays a central role in the rapid economic growth of a Chinese region (with the fictitious name of “Dragon County”). Concerned with grain self-sufficiency, the national government of China employs a central planning approach to control the amount of farmland to be converted...
Rights Based Approach and Housing for the urban poor
An analysis of the Slum Rehabilitation Schemes in Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The present study seeks to understand and analyze the Slum Rehabilitation Schemes (hereafter SRS), designed specifically in the context of Mumbai, using a rights based...
Regional Development in Rural Areas
Analytical Tools and Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
This book intends to provide analytical and policy tools for investigating the question of the development of rural and peri-urban areas. The aim is to shed some light on this topic and in particular to contribute to a better understanding of the link between issues of regional or territorial development...
Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Drawing on research from the New England Climate Adaptation Project, “Managing Climate Risks for Coastal Communities” introduces a framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change. The authors maintain that local climate adaptation efforts require collective commitments to risk...