Urban category: 4425 books
Suburban Governance
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The urban crisis of the 1960s revived a dormant social activism whose protagonists placed their hoped for radical change and political effectiveness in community action. Ironically, the insurgents chose the local community as their terrain for a political battle that in reality involved a few strictly...
Quality of Life in Cities
Equity, Sustainable Development and Happiness from a Policy Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers.
This...
Urban and Regional Planning Education
Learning for India
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India. Prior to the 1990s, planning education in India was largely confined to national and local economic concerns. Within a globalized scenario, such pedagogies and...
Approaching Urban Design
The Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This companion to Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses shows how the principles and concepts of urban design can be applied and implemented in a range of real-world settings.
Exploring Nightlife
Space, Society and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades ‘nightlife’ has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration. Debates about anti-social behaviour, morality, and safety continue to shape our...
Addiction, Modernity, and the City
A Users’ Guide to Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and...
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance
Street Level Practices for Urban Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European...
by Chang-Hee Christine Bae
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies. The USA is known for its settlement patterns that emphasize low-density suburban development and extreme automobile dependence, whereas European countries emphasize...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such as geography, urban planning,...
Receiving Erin's Children
Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban history, Matthew Gallman looks at how two cities,...
Talk with You Like a Woman
African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early-twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial uplift and reform programs of middle-class white...
by Valerie Viehoff, Gavin Poynter
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development. In the wake of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) concerns about ’gigantism’ and wider public concerns...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen. Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development...