City Planning category: 1330 books
Houses in Transformation
Search for the Implicit Reasons
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
This book analyzes the reasons of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. Recognizing Housing Transformation as a natural phenomenon, the book focuses on self-built houses in the city of Dhaka. Firstly, it explains the explicit reasons behind spontaneous...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?
The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities focuses on the ways migration and diversity have transformed cities, and how cities have responded to the challenges and opportunities offered....
Breakthroughs
Re-creating the American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Large or small, America's cities have had a difficult time generating admiration, respect, or understanding. They have served the nation as sources of commerce, finance, and the arts. They have taken millions of new Americans from their point of entry and helped newcomers elevate themselves economically...
From a Nickel to a Token
The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A fascinating micro-history of NYC’s subway system from LaGuardia’s public works achievements in 1940 to the creation of the MTA in 1968.
In 1940, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized an ambitious plan to modernize the city’s public transit. He eliminated streetcars, demolished...
Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn
A View from the Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline...
Geographies of Disruption
Place Making for Innovation in the Age of Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book looks at the uncharted territory between innovation activities and place making efforts to cultivate them. ‘Geographies of Disruption’ aims to fill that gap by exploring the growing importance of place making for knowledge generation and innovation activities in contemporary cities,...
Form, Space and Design
From the Persian to the European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2019
This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities. It can be considered a guide to design, presenting qualitative criteria to satisfy practical needs. The subject is explored through interconnected chapters, each addressing an important aspect of form-space and design...
The Road Taken
The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.
Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is...
The End of the Suburbs
Where the American Dream Is Moving
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”
For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle...
Radical Technologies
The Design of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives
Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider...
The Next Hundred Million
America in 2050
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2010
Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.
In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a...
Unruly Places
Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A tour of the world’s hidden geographies—from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts—and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today
At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite’s remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational...
by Yusuf Shahid; Nabeshima Kaoru
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Beijing and Shanghai comprise the axes of China's two leading urban regions. Their economic fortunes will affect the overall growth of China. The economic composition of the two megacities differs significantly and the future sources of competitive advantage also lie in different areas although there...
by Robert E. England, John P. Pelissero, David R. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Managing Urban America guides students through the challenges, politics, and practice of urban management—including managing conflict through politics, adapting to demographic and social changes, balancing budgets, and delivering a myriad of goods and services to citizens in an efficient, equitable,...