City Planning category: 1330 books
Public Housing Myths
Perception, Reality, and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths...
Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...
Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets
Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are...
Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization
Lessons from Empowerment Zones
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to revitalize distressed urban areas. In 1995, the original urban Empowerment Zones (Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia) each received a $100 million federal block grant and access...
World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism
Three Cities in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key relationships between heritage conservation, city space design,...
by Daniel P. O'Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. These include suburbs, sprawl, edge cities, gated communities, conurbations and networks of places and such transformations cause conflict between central...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
A preface explains the scope of the work. Chapter 1 proposes options for power train: cross-trainer locomotion, pedals with or without boots, treadmills, feet on ground around housing. I discuss housing and note that housing reduces the length of the vehicle when housing surrounds the animal, especially...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
A brief preface gives the reasons why the essay was written and why the reader should support those reasons. Chapter 1 lays out the four basic rules of traffic flow that obviate the need for traffic lights. Situations common to traffic fill out the chapter. Chapter 2 gives two basic rules for pedestrian...
Contemporary Urban Design Thinking
The Australian Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter authors argue, each in their own way, how urban design can produce an answer to these questions. Furthermore, detailed...
by Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging processes of partitioning, enclave-making and zoning, showing how in-between spaces are intimately related...
Leaders in the Shadows
The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager. Compared to elected politicians such as the mayor and the council, the work of a CAO is often overlooked and not well understood. In Leaders in the Shadows, David Siegel brings the...
Dubai
Gilded Cage
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism,...
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Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town housing development, birds chirp as early risers dash off to work, elderly residents enjoy a peaceful morning stroll, and flocks of parents usher their children to school. It seems an unlikely location...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book summarizes the key findings of a five-year interdisciplinary research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). It serves as a typical case study for a rapidly growing and developing urban center – Da Nang City, which is surrounded by remote areas...