Urban category: 4425 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a...
Urban Commons
Rethinking the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity – their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed – on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of the commons has received surprisingly little...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The collection of texts in this anthology traces the evolution of urban policy as an academic discipline and places the dynamics of this policy in its socio-political context. The approach is chronological.The first section is an outline of the evolution of urbanization and the transformation of the...
Urban Governance and Informal Settlements
Lessons from the City of Jayapura, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2019
The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries. Set within the context of understanding urban planning and management within the wider city setting,...
Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility
Global Report on Human Settlements 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for...
by Henri Lefebvre
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre’s first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered...
Unions and the City
Negotiating Urban Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces....
Urban Sociology
Images and Structure
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining...
Urban Renewal in India
Theory, Initiatives and Spatial Planning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Urban Renewal in India is a comprehensive presentation of the theoretical, strategic and technical aspects of urban renewal. The term ‘urban renewal’ implies redevelopment of urban areas to ensure growth of infrastructure, promotion of tourism and better quality of life. It has been identified...
by Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
China’s cities are home to 10 percent of the world’s population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country’s surging economic power. Their remarkable transformation builds on immense traditions, having lived through feudal dynasties, semicolonialism, and socialist commands....
Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban
The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on feminist urban studies, it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the changes in western urban gender...
Urban Biodiversity
From Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers. Worldwide, thousands of research projects are unravelling how urbanisation impacts the biodiversity of cities and towns, as well as its benefits for people and the environment through ecosystem services. Exciting scientific discoveries...
Urban Cosmopolitics
Agencements, assemblies, atmospheres
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Invoking the notion of ‘cosmopolitics’ from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation. A cosmopolitical approach to the city focuses on the multiple assemblages...
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and...