Urban category: 4425 books
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects
Building Resilient Regions
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services...
Maturing Megacities
The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures...
The New Political Economy of Urban Education
Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between...
China's Urban Billion
The Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by...
State of the World's Cities 2008/9
Harmonious Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order...
State of the World's Cities 2010/11
Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructures? Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the...
Development Asia—Urban Planning Laboratory
January–March 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The rise of Asia's megacities is the upshot of robust economic growth in the region. In turn, the expansion of these centers of industry and commerce is fueling further growth, opening more opportunities for business and employment. With six out of 10 of the world's largest cities in Asia—and eight...
The Organization of Cities
Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within...
Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...
by Judy L. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level...
Tourism in the City
Towards an Integrative Agenda on Urban Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book critically explores the interconnections between tourism and the contemporary city from a policy-oriented standpoint, combining tourism perspectives with discussion of urban models, issues, and challenges. Research-based analyses addressing managerial issues and evaluating policy implications...
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...
Citizen’s Right to the Digital City
Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and...