Urban category: 4425 books
Liveability in Singapore
Social and Behavioural Issues
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Cities and countries around the world are focused on enhancing their living conditions through ways that go beyond the brick and mortar of urban planning. Just like in other highly-urbanised cities, life and living in Singapore is highly dependent on many other dimensions such as health, access to...
Urban Informality
Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions...
Urbanizing Carescapes of Hong Kong
Two Systems, One City
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Drawing upon the massive redevelopment catalyzed by the government-led urban renewal in Hong Kong in the past two decades, Shu-Mei Huang recharges the story of post-colonial Hong Kong through care, displacement, and how care is displaced in urban governance. Theorizing “carescapes” as a heuristic...
Banished
The New Social Control In Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
With urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" people continue to occupy public space in many American cities. Concerned about the alleged ill effects their presence inflicts on property values and public safety, many cities have wholeheartedly embraced...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Rural England plays a significant role in the economy of the United Kingdom, but an even larger social and cultural role. And it is unique among OECD regions, in that it is geographically compact, with rural inhabitants generally no more than a half hour’s drive from an urban area. There is thus...
Bootstrap New Urbanism
Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Joseph A. Rodriguez critically examines the urban design and revitalization initiatives undertaken by both the government and the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1990s, New Urbanists followed a city tradition of using urban design to solve problems while seeking to elevate the city’s national...
by Vinicius M Netto
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material...
The Future of Urban Form
The Impact of New Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book, first published in 1985, explores the ways in which the editors and contributors predicted the urban system, shaped by emerging technologies, would look like, both nationally and internationally. The technological changes covered include automation in the secondary sector, the effects of...
by Majd Musa
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have significantly transformed the city’s built environment. Therefore, to understand urban transformation in Amman during this period it is important to analyze...
by Mark Jayne
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2005
In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?
Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and...
The Emerging City
Myth and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Emerging City was written at a time when the great transformation from urban to suburban lifestyle was under way. It is a tribute to Scott Greer that his work understood the new contours of the city, and also well appreciated that far from spelling the end of urban life, the new developments in...
Dimensions of Urban Social Structure
The Social Areas of Melbourne, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike. In Australia the possibility of mapping the social ecology of large cities has been limited by the absence of sufficiently detailed census of information,...
Spatial Planning and Urban Development in the New EU Member States
From Adjustment to Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Accession to the EU in May 2004 was a historic milestone for the spatial and urban development of the new member states. Meanwhile, the social and economic transition during the pre-accession phase already brought about radical changes in national urban systems and new challenges for regional development....
Sustainable Urbanization in India
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post‐2015 development...