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Urban Transportation Financing
Theory and Policy in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
This is an economic analysis of pricing and subsidy policies for urban roads and urban public transit in Ontario. Professor Frankena demonstrates the benefits of evaluating the economic merits of policy alternatives, and attempts to determine whether existing policies waste resources or lead to undesirable...
Improvised Lives
Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on within them? In such cities, popular districts are...
Low-Carbon Smart Cities
Tools for Climate Resilience Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book aims to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation tools into conventional urban planning. It emphasizes the value and importance of ICT as connected technology. The author believes that ICT and IOT can facilitate controlling climate change attributes when deployed with appropriate...
Understanding Urban Ecosystems
A New Frontier for Science and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2006
Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most intense - cities. People need to understand how cities work as ecological systems so they can take control of the vital links between human actions...
Africa's Cities
Opening Doors to the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study,...
by Ray Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Central...
Global Perspectives in Urban Law
The Legal Power of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The growing field of urban law demands a collaborative scholarly focus on comparative and global perspectives. This volume offers diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing, to social and economic inequality and financial...
Shadows of a Sunbelt City
The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century’s great urban successstories—a place that has grown enormously through “creative class” strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City, Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar...
The Geometry of Urban Layouts
A Global Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geometrical,...
For the War Yet to Come
Planning Beirut's Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the Muslim west, today hundreds of such lines dissect the city. For the residents of Beirut, urban planning could hold promise: a new spatial order could bring a peaceful future. But with unclear state...
Music-City. Sports-City. Leisure-City.
A reader on different concepts of culture, creative industries and urban regeneration attempts.
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Anthology from the year 2008 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, University of Weimar (Institut für Europäische Urbanistik ), 333 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Music-City. Sports-City. Leisure-City.' is the latest publication from the Europäisches Institut für...
Spatial Planning and Urban Development
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The...
Towards Sustainable Cities
East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep...
The Practice of Spatial Analysis
Essays in memory of Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This edited volume compiles a set of papers that present various applications of spatial analysis, both traditional and contemporary, on diverse subjects in a wide range of contexts. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou, McMaster University, Canada, who greatly...