Urban category: 4425 books
Urban Theory
A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains:
Relations between urban theory and modernity...
Urban Geography
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities.
Reveals both the diversity of ordinary urban geographies and...
Urban Wind Environment
Integrated Climate-Sensitive Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality. The ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate a paradigm shift from the conventional...
Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA
Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries...
A Theory of Urbanity
The Economic and Civic Culture of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Cities provide for people, not just functionally in terms of jobs, obligations and practical pursuits, but also, and above all, emotionally. We like some cities and detest others. Despite shared rationalizations and common modes of administration and design, each city has its own culture. A culture...
The Urban Racial State
Managing Race Relations in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of...
Smart Urban Regeneration
Visions, Institutions and Mechanisms for Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures. Smart Urban Regeneration brings together institutional, planning and real estate insights into an innovative regeneration framework for academics, students and property professionals.
Starting...
Urban Theory
New critical perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary...
by B W Namano
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language: English, abstract: The purpose of the study was to establish how...
by Peter Brimblecombe
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Pollution damages materials, but it has changed dramatically in the past century, with a reduction in the concentration of corrosive primary pollutants in urban atmospheres. At the same time, architectural styles and types of materials have changed, as we have moved to more organically rich, photochemically...
Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design
Physical Principles, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort....
Revolution Detroit
Strategies for Urban Reinvention
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
After decades of suburban sprawl, job loss, and lack of regional government, Detroit has become a symbol of post-industrial distress and also one of the most complex urban environments in the world. In Revolution Detroit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention, John Gallagher argues that Detroit's experience...
Urban Design in the Arab World
Reconceptualizing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national identities, overwhelming wealth and poverty, religious diversity, and recently the Arab uprisings, a bottom-up revolution shaking the foundations of pre-established, long-standing hierarchies. It is also a region...
Staging the New Berlin
Place Marketing and the Politics of Urban Reinvention Post-1989
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall,...