Urban category: 4425 books
Urban Regeneration
A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance. It is a 21st-century manifesto of urban...
Solving Poverty
Innovative Strategies from Winnipeg’s Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Poverty in Canada’s inner cities is deep, complex, racialized and often intergenerational. In this collection of essays published over the past decade, Jim Silver argues that urban poverty today includes not only low incomes, but in all too many cases also poor housing, poor health, low educational...
Cities for Profit
The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive...
Urban Development in India
Global Indians in the Remaking of Kolkata
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Indian diaspora has had a complex and multifaceted role in catalyzing, justifying and promoting a transformed urban landscape in India. Focussing on Kolkata/ Calcutta, this book analyses the changing landscapes over the past two decades of one of the world’s most fascinating and iconic cities. Previously...
Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005
A Longitudinal Study of Society in a Third World Megacity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
By the middle of the twenty-first century, more than fifty per cent of the world's population will live in an urban environment. Most of this new urban growth will take place in Asia and Africa, yet most governments in these two continents seem woefully unprepared for the challenges they will face...
by Anzhelika Antipova
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This book explores the intersections of urban development, travel patterns, and health. Currently, there is a lack of research concerning the subjective dimensions of accessibility in urban environments and travel behavior, as well as travel-related outcomes. Antipova fills this gap in the scholarship...
by Adepoju Onibokun, Adetoye Faniran
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
This project was embarked upon to assemble and describe the available literature, on the urban sector in Nigeria, with special reference to technical/research reports, journal articles, theses, books and conference papers. The aim is to make researchers/scholars aware of the extent and range of urban...
by Mohammad Ali Nematollahi, Samaneh Shahbazi, Nashid Nabian
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is penetrating in all sciences as a multidisciplinary approach. However, adopting the theory of AI including computer vision and computer audition to urban intellectual space, is always difficult for architecture and urban planners. This book overcomes this challenge through...
by Alasdair J.H. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Tensions over the production of urban public space came to the fore in summer 2013 with mass protests in Turkey sparked by a plan to redevelop Taksim Gezi Park, Istanbul. In London, concomitant proposals to refurbish an area of the ’South Bank’ historically used by skateboarders were similarly...
Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space
A Feminist Exploration into Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space: A Feminist Exploration into Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in Chicago, Megan E. Heim LaFrombois explores the concept of do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism from an intersectional, feminist, analytical framework. Interventions based on DIY urbanism are small-scale and...
Planning and LGBTQ Communities
The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives. As a result many of these...
Green Technologies and Infrastructure to Enhance Urban Ecosystem Services
Proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization. What are the environmental consequences of megacities’ expansion? What smart solutions can make life in cities safe,...
Urban Visions
From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2018
This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this collection of essays on diverse subjects...
by Gorgonio Martínez Atienza
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 17, 2018
La ordenación territorial y urbanística son funciones públicas no susceptibles de transacción, que organizan y definen el uso del territorio y del suelo de acuerdo con el interés general. La protección de la ordenación del territorio antes del Código Penal de 1995 se establecía únicamente...