Urban category: 4425 books
From Tenements to the Taylor Homes
In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine...
Moving from Risk to Resilience
Sustainable Urban Development in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Pacific is an increasingly urbanized region, with many countries struggling to cope with demands for basic urban services. This publication recommends risk reduction and adaptation measures to promote more sustainable urban development.
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
As an important step in developing a methodology for environmentally sustainable economic development, the study explores the concept of environmental livability for the urban centers of the People's Republic of China. The study produced the environmental livability index, a practical tool that can...
Quintessential Cities, Accountable to the Future
Sustainability, Innovation and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book can be seen as the third part of an unofficial trilogy on Sustainable Cities of the Future with the author's previous books 'Sustainable Development, Energy and the City' and 'Sustainable Cities for the third millennium: The Odyssey of urban excellence', both prefaced by Prof. Sir...
Phenomenology in Adaptation Planning
An Empirical Study of Flood-affected People in Kampung Muara Baru Jakarta
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods. Further, it examines the relationship between lifeworld analysis and adaptation planning through the sociology of knowledge, which plays a significant part in...
Dragons in Diamond Village
Tales of Resistance from Urbanizing China
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“David Bandurski is a modern-day Marco Polo taking us into the heart of new China.” —Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone
China’s explosive modernization has led to a unique phenomenon: voraciously-growing cities absorbing formerly distant villages that become tenement communities.
Dragons...
Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development in Africa
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The main goal of this book is to put urbanization and its challenges squarely on Africa’s development agenda. Planned urbanization can improve living conditions for the majority, help in the expansion of the middle class, and create conditions for economic transformation. However, many African cities...
by Christopher M. Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Originally published in 1988. Inner city problems in advanced countries are being exacerbated by the decentralisation of economic activities and higher income groups. Only offices and tourism offer some prospects of growth, but these vary in their potential from one city to another. This book assesses...
Planning Politics in Toronto
The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including...
Sartre and No Child Left Behind
An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Sartre and No Child Left Behind: An Existential Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Urban Schooling
asks two fundamental questions: “Who do students become as a result of inhabiting impoverished urban schools for eight hours a day, five days a week, over the course of several years? What happens to the...
Smart Growth and Sustainable Development
Selected Papers from the 9th International Association for China Planning Conference, Chongqing, China, June 19 - 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of land use, protect the natural and...
Host Cities and the Olympics
An Interactionist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through...
by David Drakakis-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Initially published in 1981, this book examines the problems of housing provision for the urban poor in developing countries, within the context of the development process as a whole. The investigation concentrates on the political economy of housing investment and illustrates how programmes and policies...
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco’s perceived permanence.
The crisis...