Urban category: 4425 books
Cities and the Super-Rich
Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from international experts including sociologists,...
The City Moves West
Economic and Industrial Growth in Central West Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Where water supply, railway transportation, and oil reserves have been abundant, towns in central West Texas have prospered; where these resources are few, settlements have maintained only slight growth or disappeared entirely. Supporting his conclusions with profuse statistical evidence, Robert L. Martin...
by Oluseyi Fabiyi
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
One of the consequences of the failure of the state to protect life and property of its entire citizens especially in developing countries like Nigeria is the emergences of private alternatives to crime prevention and control. This process of privatisation of security in Nigeria often involves recruitment...
Urban-Rural Interactions
Towns as Focus Points in Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Modern Europe has rural roots. Even today, as much as 90 per cent of Europe (EU25) consists of rural areas in which half of the population lives. While different rural areas often face different challenges, the shift from agricultural production towards a multifunctional landscape and the increasing...
Global Models of Urban Planning
Best Practices Outside the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume is based on an international literature search of the best urban planning practices being used in dozens of cities around the world. Such topics as green technology, conservation, infrastructure maintenance, alternative energy, downtown business districts, and recycling are covered, with...
Changing Course
A New Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Transport
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Most Asian cities have grown more congested, more sprawling, and less livable in recent years; and statistics suggest that this trend will continue. Rather than mitigate the problems, transport policies have often exacerbated them. In this book, the Asian Development Bank outlines a new paradigm for...
Old Industrial Cities Seeking New Road of Industrialization
Models of Revitalizing Northeast China
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This book aims to investigate how cities in China's rust belt restructure their urban industries and economies. Over the years, China's “economic miracle” has been mainly attributed to rapid development in its coastal region, where the majority of research into the country's development has originated...
The Permaculture City
Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the global information society, innovation is a highly pervasive process that influences all facets of human life: cultural, economic, political, and institutional. A desire to comprehend the impacts of innovative change on so many areas of urban life prompted the research project that has resulted...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any...
Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets
Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are...
by Roberta Capello, K. Bithas, R. Camagni
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainability is placed in the context of the debate on global sustainable development. A wide array of policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment...
Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values
Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility....