Urban category: 4425 books
by Dominique Lorrain
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Megacities are a new phenomenon in history. The fact that many of them are in emerging countries deepens the challenges of governing these spaces. Can these vast, complex entities, rife with inequalities and divisions, be governed effectively? For researchers, the answer has often been no. The approach...
The Well-Tempered City
What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in...
Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization
New strategies for new challenges—with a focus on the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries...
Affordable housing in US shrinking cities
From neighborhoods of despair to neighborhoods of opportunity?
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Given the rapid urbanisation of the world’s population, the converse phenomenon of shrinking cities is often overlooked and little understood. Yet with almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, efforts by government and anchor institutions to regenerate these cities...
Renew Orleans?
Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
Like no other American city, New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina offers powerful insight into issues of political economy in urban development and, in particular, how a city’s character...
Separate Societies
Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2010
“Economic and political forces no longer combat poverty—they generate poverty!" exclaim William Goldsmith and Edward Blakely in their report on the plight of American's urban poor. In this revised and updated edition of their 1992 book Separate Societies,the authors present a compelling examination...
by Lucy Bullivant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!
In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist...
Consuming the Entrepreneurial City
Image, Memory, Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies. Increasingly, forms of spectacle have come to shape how cities are imagined and to influence their character and the practices...
Contemporary Urban Japan
A Sociology of Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way.
Global Rome
Changing Faces of the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. Urban planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards the city and leaves the rural environment behind, yet there are many factors...
Johannesburg
The Elusive Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic...
by Ayodeji Olukoju
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive analysis on the history of infrastructural development and urban policies in Lagos since the colonial annexation to date. I think that the author faced almost three challenges to write it. It was necessary to consider a long term analysis (one century and a half),...
by Edward W. Soja
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the...