Urban category: 4425 books
by Yang Xiao
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book is devoted to fill the ‘urban economics niche’ and conceptualize a framework for valuing the urban configuration via local housing market. Advanced network analysis techniques are employed to capture the centrality features hindered in street layout. The author explores the several effects...
Reducing Disaster Risk by Managing Urban Land Use
Guidance Notes for Planners
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication provides guidance for urban planners on how to use land use management-related tools they have at their disposal---land use planning, development control instruments, greenfield development, and urban redevelopment---to reduce disaster risk and contribute to strengthening urban resilience...
Urban Regeneration
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 1999
`It [Urban Regeneration] Should make life somewhat easier for practitioners and will offer a further stimulus to the development of taught courses in the not-so-gentle art of regeneration' - Urban Studies Providing students and practitioners with a detailed overview of the key theoretical...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
The State of the African Cities 2010 goes above and beyond the first report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. With the subtitle: Governance, inequity and urban land markets, the report uncovers critical urban issues and challenges in African cities,...
Smart Economy in Smart Cities
International Collaborative Research: Ottawa, St.Louis, Stuttgart, Bologna, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar, Lagos, New Delhi, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Kozhikode, Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development. The book surveys the state of the art of Smart City Economic Development through a literature survey. The book uses 13 in depth city research case studies in 10 countries such as the North America, Europe,...
Market Cities, People Cities
The Shape of Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen
How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson...
Urban Sprawl and Public Health
Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environmin which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and developmin our communities...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This volume contains essays that examine contemporary urban and regional planning and development in China. Through in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis, it provides insights into the urban policies and operational mechanisms of this colossal transitional economy which has presented unprecedented...
Urban Smellscapes
Understanding and Designing City Smell Environments
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
We see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and an unparalleled connection to memory, yet it has gone overlooked in discussions of sensory design. What scents shape the city? How does scent contribute to placemaking? How...
by
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...
by Denise Pumain, Romain Reuillon
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the century. This “urban transition”...
The Metropolis in Black and White
Place, Power and Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The Metropolis in Black and White highlights a stark fact: America's metropolitan areas are more polarized along racial lines than at any time since the mid-1960s. Though urban areas have become multicultural, the editors argue that black-white racial differences will outlast ethnic differences in...
Inclusion in Urban Educational Environments
Addressing Issues of Diversity, Equity, and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
This book is motivated by our experiences in working with students and their families in urban communities. We are particularly concerned about the urgent imperative to address the endemic educational and societal challenges that pervade the lives of urban students, particularly those who live in...
by C. Nagaraja Rao
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The importance of efficient urban governance needs no elaboration in an increasingly urbanising world. Cities with high population densities throw significant challenges of transportation, safety, urban revitalisation, social inclusion and cohesion, environmental protection, water, air, energy, sanitation...