Urban category: 4425 books
by Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging processes of partitioning, enclave-making and zoning, showing how in-between spaces are intimately related...
Cities by Design
The Social Life of Urban Form
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments.
With cities taking a growing share of the global...
Explorations in Urban Design
An Urban Design Research Primer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires...
Urban China's Rural Fringe
Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design and Co-Director of the Research Institute of Urbanisation at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, People's Republic of China. Dr. Yiwen Wang, PhD in...
Digital Urban Acupuncture
Human Ecosystems and the Life of Cities in the Age of Communication, Information and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of...
by Deborah Dash Moore, Mitchell Reddish
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice. Deborah Dash Moore explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of...
Supersizing Urban America
How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the problem. Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona...
by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities...
Urban Rage
The Revolt of the Excluded
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until citizens are equally treated and politically included
In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by...
Cities of Culture
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Culture now has a prominent place on the urban policy and re-profiling agendas of cities around the world. City-based cultural planning emphasising creativity in all its guises has emerged as a significant local policy initiative, while the notion of the ‘creative city’ has become an urban imaging...
Changing Course in Urban Transport
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This illustrated guide provides a rich collection of images of sustainable urban transport initiatives from around the world. It considers the transport problems evident in many cities in Asia, including high levels of energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, congestion, road casualties, urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Urban regions have come under increasing pressure to adapt to the imperatives of mobility, including greater freedom of travel, rising trade volumes and global economic networks. Whereas urbanization was once characterized by the concentration of services and facilities, urban areas now have to ensure...
Urban Nightlife
Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination of urban nightlife, drawing on ethnographic...
Enabling Inclusive Cities
Tool Kit for Inclusive Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This tool kit presents an integrated approach to inclusive urban development and was prepared for ADB staff and their partners to engage in inclusive urban development programming and implementation as an integral component of ADB’s lending programs. It presents methods to gather required information...