City Planning category: 1330 books
Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980
Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China....
Urbanización y hábitat en Bariloche
Ciudades que habitan una ciudad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Esta obra revela una San Carlos de Bariloche donde coexisten la ciudad turística con otras ciudades no tan visibles para el observador externo: la de las desigualdades, la de la informalidad, la de las disputas por el acceso a la tierra y a entornos de privilegio. Una ciudad donde el Estado está...
by Gordon G. Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book provides a general description and evaluation of the process of urbanization in China and the urgent challenges facing the Chinese government. Urban Transformation in China examines the changing pattern of China's urban population and the determinants of these changes, including an analysis...
Preservation Politics
Keeping Historic Districts Vital
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
You’ve established a historic district in your town! Now what? Preservation Politics picks up where The Politics of Historic Districts leaves off, advising the established HPC on how to maintain momentum in their communities once the initial political campaign to win historic preservation designation...
The Post-Growth Project
How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn’t grow. For decades, it has been widely recognized that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organizing our economies are urgently required. This urgency...
Winning the Cost War
Applying Battlefield Management Doctrine to the Management of Government
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2000
Dr. Geigers research proposes innovative and practical responses to the cost war fought by government organizations struggling with lower budget levels. His sustained research contributions into the measurement and management of cost in government organizations promise to improve governments mission...
Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations
(De)fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Time transforms the way we see world politics and insinuates itself into the ways we act. In this groundbreaking volume, Agathangelou and Killian bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to tackle time and temporality in international relations. The authors – critical theorists, artists,...
Beyond Biopolitics
Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
'Beyond Biopolitics constitutes a truly serious attempt to think about the unthinkable.' Guy Lancaster, Political Studies Review: 2014 VOL 12, 93.
Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror...
The Making of the Chinese Middle Class
Small Comfort and Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the idea that China needs a middle...
The Design of Frontier Spaces
Control and Ambiguity
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In a globalizing world, frontiers may be in flux but they remain as significant as ever. New borders are established even as old borders are erased. Beyond lines on maps, however, borders are spatial zones in which distinctive architectural, graphic, and other design elements are deployed to signal...
The Nature of Design : Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2002
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood,...
Urban Housing Markets
Recent Directions in Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.
This volume is at once...
Waste of a Nation
Garbage and Growth in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This book consists of two parts. The first part describes the context in which the Prefectures of Minamisoma and Kesennuma need to operate and what the meaning is of the multiple disasters that occurred in the area. The second part illuminates the design process and content of the Minamisoma and Kesennuma...