Urban category: 4425 books
by Liang Fook Lye, John Wong
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The rate of urbanisation will accelerate in the years ahead. The massive influx of people to cities will result in the demand for more services, expending more resources and generating more waste. The forces of globalisation and better connectivity will hasten this urbanisation process. Although the...
Urban Villager
Life in an Indian Satellite Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Urban Villager is a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an ‘urban villager’ in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to...
by Mona A. Abdelwahab
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Providing a critique of the concepts attached to the representation of urban space, this ground-breaking book formulates a new theory of space, which understands the dynamic interrelations between physical and social spaces while tracing the wider urban context. It offers a new tool to approach the...
Regenerating Urban Land
A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements....
New York City Guide Of Urban Feeling
A NON Traditional NYC Guidebook - Get In! [Urban Feeling - Vol 1]
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
**This is NOT a traditional NYC Guidebook. **
In a regular NYC digital guide usually you find endless details about NYC buildings, NYC event spaces, NYC galleries, famous NYC places, or even some more thematic NYC travel guide can suggest you tours like NYC nights or a NYC guide for families...
Competitive Cities in the 21st Century
Cluster-Based Local Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Economic challenges in developing Asian countries have become more complex: urban populations are growing at great cost to the environment, climate change has increased risks of natural disasters, and income gaps within and between developing countries are widening. These factors threaten the sustainable...
Legitimacy and Urban Governance
A Cross-National Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement.
It explores the nature of the interaction between community involvement and political leadership in modern local governance by drawing on empirical...
Growing Urban Economies
Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in...
The Economies of Urban Diversity
Ruhr Area and Istanbul
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies. In this exciting work, the contributors develop an integrative approach to urban diversity and economy by employing concepts from different studies and linking historical and contemporary analyses of economic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China’s major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources.
Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China
Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas...
Studies in Urbanormativity
Rural Community in Urban Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
This collection examines the event of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics to portray the triple catastrophe of March 2011 as both a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. The contributors...
Landscape of Discontent
Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved...
Cities in the Urban Age
A Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human...