Urban category: 4425 books
Deconstructing the High Line
Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property...
Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces
Expos and Urban Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis,...
Guidance Note
Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban...
Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance
Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The relationship between citizens and city governments is gradually transforming due to the utilization of advanced information and communication technologies in order to inform, consult, and engage citizens. Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity explores...
by Axel Baeumler, Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Shomik Mehndiratta
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The continuing rapid growth and development of China's cities brings many complex challenges. Tasked with supporting strong economic development that provides jobs and a good quality of life for its growing number of residents, China's cities also must ensure sustainable development in line with national...
Cities of Farmers
Urban Agricultural Practices and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Full-scale food production in cities: is it an impossibility? Or is it a panacea for all that ails urban communities? Today, it’s a reality, but many people still don’t know how much of an impact this emerging food system is having on cities and their residents. This book showcases the work of...
by Fabio Cutaia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book explores the opportunities offered by Strategic Environmental Assessment in the context of guaranteeing the synchronized integration of landscape (in all its aspects) within urban plans, thereby helping to overcome the constraints of rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and a purely aesthetic...
Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization
Lessons from Empowerment Zones
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to revitalize distressed urban areas. In 1995, the original urban Empowerment Zones (Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia) each received a $100 million federal block grant and access...
Managing the City Economy
Challenges and Strategies in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy. It explores key challenges and strategies, particularly in developing countries, where developmental deficits are greatest and almost all urban growth...
Demystifying Doha
On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In...
Motherhood, Poverty, and the WIC Program in Urban America
Life Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The study presented here is one of urban poverty, household survival, and social institutions that both enable and control the decision-making of poor women in America. First and foremost, it is about a public health program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited collection...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the Global South, the conceptual tools used to study cities are distilled disproportionately from research on the highly developed cities of the Global North. With urban inequality widely recognized...
Energy Services for the Urban Poor in Africa
Issues and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Africa has been experiencing higher rates of urbanization than any other continent, and today about one-third of the continent‘s population live in urban areas. But studies of energy services for urban residents, especially the poor, are still rare. The supply of electricity to poor city dwellers...