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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
We, the editors, have long believed that a strong knowledge of relatively simple economic and engineering concepts is valuable in solving water management problems. The lack of such knowledge has been apparent to us in some of the journal articles, research proposals and books we have reviewed. The...
Trading Places
Accessing land in African cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities. It explores how local practice, land governance and markets interact to shape the ways that people at society�s margins access land to build their livelihoods. The authors argue that the problem is not with markets per se, but in the unequal...
The New Economy of the Inner City
Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2009
Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and imaging,...
Carving Out the Commons
Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations...
Globalized Authoritarianism
Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
Over the past thirty years, Morocco’s cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one example, Casablanca’s medina is now obscured behind skyscrapers that are funded by global capital and encouraged by Morocco’s monarchy, which...
Healthy City Planning
From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.
Having made the...
Seminal Studies in Regional and Urban Economics
Contributions from an Impressive Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career. In addition to bringing together a selection of Professor Camagni’s most influential...
The New Urban Agenda
The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
2015 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted
City planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.
Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become...
Sustainable Conservation and Urban Regeneration
The Luxor Example
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
This book documents research activities and design experimentation carried out within the scope of a project addressing conservation, urban regeneration, responsible use of resources, and sustainable development in a truly exceptional place: the city of Luxor. The project is a collaborative venture...
World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism
Three Cities in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key relationships between heritage conservation, city space design,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book discusses the effects of Neo-Liberal policies on the transformations of architectural and urban practices and education in the transition from the era of “professionalism” to “post-professionalism.” Building on previous literature in the field of contemporary theory of architecture,...
Transforming Urban Waterfronts
Fixity and Flow
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of...
Shaping Urban Infrastructures
Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentally, socially and economically...
Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning
Selected Papers from the 8th International Association for China Planning Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 21 - 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and...