Urban category: 4425 books
by Alejandro Mendoza Jaramillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Tesis de Maestría del año 2014 en eltema Planificación urbana y regional, Nota: 8,0, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Idioma: Español, Resumen: La presente investigación aborda los mecanismos e instrumentos de gestión urbanística implementados en dos contextos institucionales diferentes en torno...
by Lewis Mumford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.
Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The...
Root Shock
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed, the urban modernization projects that swept...
Cities Under Siege
The New Military Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan...
by Susan S. Fainstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor...
Breaking Through Concrete
Building an Urban Farm Revival
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
People have always grown food in urban spaces—on windowsills and sidewalks, and in backyards and neighborhood parks—but today, urban farmers are leading an environmental and social movement that transforms our national food system. To explore this agricultural renaissance, brothers David and Michael...
by Robert E. England, John P. Pelissero, David R. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Managing Urban America guides students through the challenges, politics, and practice of urban management—including managing conflict through politics, adapting to demographic and social changes, balancing budgets, and delivering a myriad of goods and services to citizens in an efficient, equitable,...
Governing Compact Cities
How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence...
Governing Urban Sustainability
Comparing Cities in the USA and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainability-minded groups-may be critical to building momentum for sustainability. The book presents in-depth case studies of six cities in the USA and Germany:...
Cities of Empire
The British Colonies and the Creation of the Urban World
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
An original history of the most enduring colonial creation, the city, explored through ten portraits of powerful urban centers the British Empire left in its wake
At its peak, the British Empire was an urban civilization of epic proportions, leaving behind a network of cities which now stand...
Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space
Lasting Legacies?
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann...
Copenhagenize
The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool for improving our cities. Designing around it is the most efficient way to make our cities life-sized—to scale cities for humans. It is time to cement...
Terrain Vague
Interstices at the Edge of the Pale
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits...
African Cities
Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies....