Urban category: 4425 books
Cities of North America
Contemporary Challenges in U.S. and Canadian Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
This timely textprovides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concerns—including the redistribution of economic activities, the...
The City
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines...
Pathways through Crisis
Urban Risk and Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
When densely populated urban areas face severe crises—natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration—they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems. Carl Maida argues that solutions to these problems tend to be developed within the...
Milanese Encounters
Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In a city driven by fashion and design, visibility and invisibility are powerful forces. Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power structures in contemporary Milan.
Cristina Moretti’s ethnographic study reveals how...
Sites of Governance
Multilevel Governance and Policy Making in Canada's Big Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Policies forged by all levels of government affect the lives of urban residents. Contributors to this volume explore how intergovernmental relations shape urban policies and how various social forces are involved in - or excluded from - the policy process. Focusing on diverse policy fields including...
Public Spaces
Times of Crisis and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This volume is about the plurality and complexity of modern urban public spaces. The authors move far beyond the nostalgia of traditional streets, squares and gardens to mobilize contemporary sociological knowledge based on the mediated relations between spatial morphology and everyday life in cities...
The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300
Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of modern Europe. Until recently, almost all of the sources for medieval Germany were available only in the...
by Bruce Hensler
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-century American cities. However, urban rebirth in the aftermath of great fires offered a chance to shape the future. Ultimately residents and planners created...
Cities of Tomorrow
An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global...
The World in Brooklyn
Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to...
by Prakash Madhusudan Apte
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
What should be a city's Vision Plan? How should a Region and City development plan be prepared? What is the impact of ïliberalization' and policies like the establishment of Special Economic Zones? Can a sustainable development model be evolved in a city? Should slums be redeveloped or remodelled? Are...
Agogic Maps
From Musical Phrasing to Enhancement of Urban Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book explores the value of the musical concept of “agogics” – the modification of regular rhythm to enhance expressive potential – in understanding urban spatial configurations within the current technological context and in developing urban maps that exploit sonic signals to create an...
by Harvey S. Perloff, Lowdon Wingo Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Classic economic considerations applied to the crucial urban problems of poverty, racial segregation, urban renewal, transportation, and education. Originally published in 1968
A Century of Change
Beijing's Urban Structure in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Beijing’s urban structure in the 20th century, analyzing essential social and economic changes in the housing sector. Focusing on the urban changes that took place under the market economy after 1978 and beyond, the book addresses the...