City Planning category: 1330 books
by Josef W. Konvitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This book highlights the electronic governance in a smart city through case studies of cities located in many countries. “E-Government” refers to the use by government agencies of information technologies (such as Wide Area Networks, the Internet, and mobile computing) that have the ability to...
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure
Making and Using the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before...
No Simple Solutions
Transforming Public Housing in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In this book, Sue Popkin tells the story of how an ambitious—and risky—social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA),...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2009
This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models.
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Smart Metropolitan Regional Development
Economic and Spatial Design Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This bookdiscusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development. It highlights how smart metropolitan regional development can energize, reorganize and transform the legacy economy into a smart economy; how it can help...
Urban Informalities
Reflections on the Formal and Informal
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. This collection critically interrogates...
Transit Life
How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
An exploration of the ways that everyday life in the city is defined by commuting.
We spend much of our lives in transit to and from work. Although we might dismiss our daily commute as a wearying slog, we rarely stop to think about the significance of these daily journeys. In Transit Life,...
Seeking Talent for Creative Cities
The Social Dynamics of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers. Seeking Talent for Creative Cities offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the diverse, dynamic factors that affect cities’ ability to achieve this goal.
Based...
House by House, Block by Block
The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience...
Building a Collaborative Advantage
Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Homelessness is not a historical accident. We know that it is the disastrous outcome of policy decisions made over time and at several levels of government. Yet conventional theories in political science and public administration fail to explain why some approaches have worked while others have failed.
Drawing...
Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space
Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga...
Encountering Urban Places
Visual and Material Performances in the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of places; to the way they are built, to their resisting materiality, to their image in people's minds, to...