Urban category: 4425 books
Transforming Cities with Transit
Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. As one of the most promising strategies for advancing environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and socially inclusive development in fast-growing...
Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation
Clash of Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challenges—not...
Footwork
Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it shows how urban modernisation, development and austerity politics impact the hidden lives of people...
The Shaping of Us
How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2019
Author went to Brown University
First edition published in the US
Author owns Space Works Consulting with offices in the Bay Area and the UK
Audience for book includes; Professors, graduate students, undergraduate students in these disciplines in Architecture, design, landscape...
The Fruitful City
The Enduring Power of the Urban Food Forest
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Examining the roots and fruits of the urban foodscape
Our cities are places of food polarities food deserts and farmers markets, hunger and food waste, fast food delivery and urban gardening. While locavores and preserving pros abound, many of us cant identify the fruit trees in our yards or...
Cairo Contested
Governance, Urban Space, and Global Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This cross-disciplinary, ethnographic, contextualized, and empirical volume explores the meaning and significance of urban space, and maps the spatial inscription of power on the mega-city of Cairo. Suspicious of collective life and averse to power-sharing, Egyptian governance structures weaken but...
The Creative Destruction of New York City
Engineering the City for the Elite
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York. He promised to value the needs of poor and working-class New Yorkers, making city government work better for everyone-not just those who thrived during Bloomberg's tenure as mayor. But well into de Blasio's...
Mapping Detroit
Land, Community, and Shaping a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how...
by Willem van Winden, Leo van den Berg, Luis Carvalho
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacotruing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations. The process of deindustrialization is often seen as part of the inevitable shift...
Children and their Urban Environment
Changing Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed to ensure that...
by Chris Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Cash Flow, Social Good, No Guilt, No B.S. Just a guide that works!Is it possible to:•Make $100,000 per month on a $30,000 investment?•Build business and community at the same time?•Legally get into the sweepstakes cafe industry?Of course. Not just another business book, The Urban...
by Richard Risemberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
These essays on urbanity were written between 1997 and 2014. Most, though not all, have to do with Los Angeles, a city much loved and much maligned, and justly so in either case. Although Sustainable City News, first home of most of these observations, is devoted to the structures of cities, these...
The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic...
Movements in the City
Conflict in the European Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
For 2nd and 3rd year courses in urban sociology, sociology of exclusion, social stratification, planning and cultural studies in departments of sociology and urban geography. This book provides an in depth examination of social movements and urban life in European cities today. Unique in its interdisciplinary...