Urban category: 4425 books
Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Betterment and Compensation in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Land value capture has long been a hotly debated topic, and it has influenced a wide variety of land ownership regimes. Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development examines the role and impact of government intervention on land markets in China. It reveals that the state has taken selective advantage...
Megacity Mobility Culture
How Cities Move on in a Diverse World
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
What determines how cities move on? The ever-increasing challenges to urban mobility come in many forms, and approaches to address them range from the technically ingenious to attempts to change travel behaviour. Key amongst factors essential to the success of any such approach is whether the urban...
City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems
Technologies and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Cities are becoming the wealth producing centers of national economies. Increasing the operational efficiency of the city will bring a competitive edge to the whole system. Yet, many city subsystems cannot work together, creating significant problems and inefficiencies. City Competitiveness and Improving...
Economics of Urban Externalities
Analysis of Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu and Quito
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This book provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in the urbanization process. Meeting the challenges that come hand-in-hand with the contemporary age of rapid urbanization demands more extensive empirical knowledge. While most urbanization research focuses on positive externalities,...
Strife and Progress
Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing-and stubborn-public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a broad audience the "portfolio strategy" for...
by Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Rao
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
The rapid expansion, urban form and development of the built environment in the world’s second most populous city, Delhi, has been the consequence of social, political, economic, planning and architectural traditions that have shaped the city over thousands of years. Whilst seamless at times, these...
Rethinking the Informal City
Critical Perspectives from Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities...
The Folklore of the Freeway
Race and Revolt in the Modernist City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
First published in 1984. It is widely acknowledged that rural-urban differences and interrelationships play an important role in the development process. Some theorists believe they are a primary cause of continuing poverty in poor nations. This volume of essays summarises and appraises theories of...
Operational Urban Models
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
First published in 1981. Urban modelling techniques are an established tool in assessing the possible repercussions of major changes in land use. This book is an introductory guide to the various models that have been developed and to how they can be applied in planning practice, particularly with...
The Emerging Asian City
Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing...
Code and Clay, Data and Dirt
Five Thousand Years of Urban Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence, maybe for millennia? In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Shannon Mattern advances the provocative argument that our urban...
Home in the City
Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Métis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living conditions, issues, and trends. Based on extensive...
The Human City
Urbanism for the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
"***The Human City* presents the most cogent, evidence-based and clear-headed exposition of the pro-suburban argument. . . . enriching our understanding of what cities are about and what they can and must become.” -*Wall Street Journal***
Around the globe, most new urban development has...