City Planning category: 1330 books
In the Public's Interest
Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book studies the recent legacy of basti “evictions” in Delhi—mass clearings of some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods—as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of “public interest” and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts meant to empower and...
by Miriam Paeslack
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which once prospered because of heavy industrialization, but which now have to deal with various degrees of...
Walkable City
How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American...
Human Smart Cities
Rethinking the Interplay between Design and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Within the most recent discussion on smart cities and the way this vision is affecting urban changes and dynamics, this book explores the interplay between planning and design both at the level of the design and planning domains’ theories and practices.
Urban transformation is widely recognized...
Ranking the Liveability of the World's Major Cities
The Global Liveable Cities Index (GLCI)
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural...
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs
Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide,...
Planning Politics in Toronto
The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new...
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience
Encountering the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another.
From the foundations...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Critiques of traditional urban planning are numerous. The debate about direction within the profession and why urban planning seems to be in a state of despair continues. However, and as Milan J. Dluhy and Kan Chen note, the more critical issue is the future direction of planning, particularly interdisciplinary...
Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)
An Operational Research Approach to the Processes of Public Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their capacity...
New Brunswick, New Jersey
The Decline and Revitalization of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing population, and enjoying a renaissance that has led many experts to cite this New Jersey city as a model for urban redevelopment. Featuring more than...
Where We Want to Live
Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
**Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment**
**A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017**
After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health...
Straphanger
Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution
"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America...