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Cover of Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy
by John Yinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017

Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for...
Cover of 50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore
by Chye Kiang Heng
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016

50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into three parts, the first section of the volume, 'Paradigms, Policies, and Processes', provides an overview of the ideologies and strategies underpinning...
Cover of Greening Cities

Greening Cities

Forms and Functions

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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017

This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology....
Cover of Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available. The numerous habitats represented in this book ranges from rows of trees in wooded alleys, to wastelands and remnants of natural habitats encapsulated in the...
Cover of Urban Theory and the Urban Experience
by Simon Parker
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...
Cover of The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation

The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation

Beijing, Chicago, and Paris

by Yue Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth...
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East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape

Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth

by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015

Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asia’s Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across...
Cover of Key Concepts in Urban Studies
by Mr Leslie Budd, Professor Panu Lehtovuori, Mark D. Gottdiener
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015

"Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies. Drawing examples from different parts of the world, this authoritative resource exposes students to the diverse forms that cities take, and the social, spatial and...
Cover of Theories of Urban Politics
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008

'Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics. Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on nontraditional topics, including the new institutionalism, network governance, and urban leadership…...
Cover of The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative...
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Urban Politics

Critical Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

"Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction" - Setha M. Low, The Graduate Center of the City University of...
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Ventilating Cities

Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

by Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012

The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate...
Cover of The Urban Climate
by Helmut E. Landsberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1981

The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create...
Cover of The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinary...
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