Urban category: 4425 books
Africa's Legacies of Urbanization
Unfolding Saga of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
The ability to function safely, healthily, and productively in urban places is a continuing challenge for people everywhere. This challenge is exacerbated when the resources available to people in urban places happen to be severely limited or their ability to make decisions consistent with their welfare...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The book aims at nurturing theoretic reflection on the city and the territory and working out and applying methods and techniques for improving our physical and social landscapes. The main issue is developed around the projectual dimension, with the objective of visualising both the city and the territory...
In the Public's Interest
Evictions, Citizenship, and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book studies the recent legacy of basti “evictions” in Delhi—mass clearings of some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods—as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of “public interest” and, in the case of Delhi, by the very courts meant to empower and...
by A.K. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Urban Development Plans together with all the major stakeholders. Increasing the assets of the urban poor, analysts suggest enables them to improve the adequacy and security of their livelihoods. Human capital improvements, in particular require basic infrastructure and services, such as water, sanitation,...
Land Delivery Systems in West African Cities
The Example of Bamako, Mali
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Urban and peri-urban land markets in rapidly expanding West African cities operate within and across different coexisting tenure regimes and involve complex procedures to obtain or make land available for housing. Because a structured framework lacks for the analysis of such systems, this book proposes...
by Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Rao, Jennifer Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
This book is a concise treatise of the alternative paradigms used in BRICS countries to tackle urban housing shortages. There are a number of alternative methods for meeting these shortages which BRICS countries have adopted. These alternatives may agree in terms of desired outcome, but when it comes...
Building Globalization
Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms overseas. Combining ethnographic fieldwork, historical research, and network analysis, Building Globalization closely scrutinizes...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
A comprehensive update, the fourth edition of this leading text features numerous chapters by new authors addressing the latest trends and topics in the field. The book presents the foundational concepts and methodological tools that readers need in order to engage with today's pressing urban transportation...
Everyday Globalization
A Spatial Semiotics of Immigrant Neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Everyday Globalization is a micro-sociological study of immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris. Global flows of people bring together cultural practices from distant places and urban dwellers in global cities interpret the signs of collective identity in ascribing particular places as "immigrant...
Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes
In Search of a Decision Support System
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants. It presents a decision-support system to orient public administrations in identifying development scenarios for sustainable urban and territorial transformations....
Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded
Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1992
Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling "the system," whether that system is the machinery...
Building Resilient Cities in China: The Nexus between Planning and Science
Selected Papers from the 7th International Association for China Planning Conference, Shanghai, China, June 29 – July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This book discusses a range of planning and management issues related to building urban resiliency. It covers such topics as urban, environmental, and transportation planning, historical preservation, emergency relief and management, geographic information systems (GIS) and other technological applications....
The Art of Defiance
Graffiti, Politics and the Reimagined City in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The Art of Defiance is an ethnographic portrait of how graffiti writers see their city and, in turn, how their city sees them. It explores how becoming a graffiti writer helps disenfranchised urban citizens negotiate their cultural identities, build their social capital, and gain a voice within an...
by John R. Short
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society. From the broad aim of seeking to show the relationship between urbanism and society flows a number...