Urban category: 4425 books
Topics and Methods for Urban and Landscape Design
From the river to the project
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book combines urban planning and architectural tools in an attempt to overcome the limitations of sectoral measures. In this perspective, it offers a forum for the debate of different approaches used by schools of planning and architecture. It explores strategies by drawing from the potential...
Urban Living Labs
Experimenting with City Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
"Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas" provides instructors with a text reference that has a logical and easy-to-follow flow of topics around which they can structure the syllabi of their urban remote sensing courses. Topics have been chosen to bridge the gap between remote sensing...
Urban Ecologies
City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The term “urban ecology” has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and natural sciences as well as urban planning and architecture. The environmental humanities have been slow to adapt to current theoretical debates, often excluding human-built environments from their...
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis
Politics, Architecture, Landscape Sustainability and Multidisciplinary Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally...
by Tim Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
More than simply examining the new geographical patterns forming within cities, this third edition of Urban Geography also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. Tim Hall critically synthesizes key literatures in the following areas:
approaches...
Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South
Towards Safe and Inclusive Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious 5-year, 15-project research programme supported by Canada’s International...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador during
October 2016. The first was the Gospel and the Future of Cities Summit at which a
contingent of Kingdom focused urban leaders gathered to explore what the gospel has to
say to the development of cities globally....
Perspectives in Urban Ecology
Ecosystems and Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Metropolis of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology. Basic understanding of urban nature development and its social reception are discussed for the European Metropolitan Area of Berlin. Furthermore, we investigate specific consequences for the environment, nature and the quality of life...
Urban Growth in Ethiopia, 1887–1974
From the Foundation of Finfinnee to the Demise of the First Imperial Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial Ethiopia made in its journey towards urbanization into the modern era, and undertakes a critical assessment of the economic, political, and social impediments that prevented the country from transitioning into a truly fully fledged modern...
Social Dynamics of the Urban
Studies from India
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it...
The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes
Naming, Politics, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban...
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics
Cities and Geography
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography...
The Urban Climate Challenge
Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives*, The Urban Climate Challenge*provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields...