Urban category: 4425 books
Metropolitan Regions
Knowledge Infrastructures of the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Randstad Holland is the urbanized western part of the Netherlands. It contains the four largest cities of the country: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. The name Randstad (rim city) refers to the distinctive shape of the conurbation, a horseshoe of cities around an open agricultural and...
Employment Location in Cities and Regions
Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models...
Smart Cities, Smart Future
Showcasing Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and services designed and orchestrated to help people lead...
by Hak Choi
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
You have probably heard of Ricardo’s rent theory, which is a perpendicular line. You may also have heard of the rent gradient function, which is a negative curve. So, which one is the correct rent theory? People may choose to live away from city center because of the lower rent, but why is city...
Concepts in Urban Transportation Planning
The Quest for Mobility, Sustainability and Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book offers solutions for creating sustainable urban transportation. Topics include historical developments, planning, policy and legislative initiatives, nonmotorized and public transportation, environmental and social justice issues, and safety. The author discusses social, health and economic...
Emergent Spatio-temporal Dimensions of the City
Habitus and Urban Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity. The argument draws not only on aspects of movement in time, but also on a cultural and specifically social context influencing the creation of the spatial habitus. The book reconsiders existing theories of time and space in the field of urban...
Urban Studies
A Canadian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This study, first published in 1968, was one of the first books on Canada’s urban development, bringing together the viewpoints of professionals who had studied various aspects of city growth – economic, social, geographic, political. The book demonstrates the effectiveness and potential of the...
Metropolitan Governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim
Borders, Challenges, Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This edited collection examines seminal changes and major policy challenges in metropolitan governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim that are being faced by governments (national and sub-national) and their polities. The book builds upon the work of the largest stream at the Urban Affairs Association’s...
'One Planet' Cities
Sustaining Humanity within Planetary Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.
With four out of five people predicted to be urban dwellers by 2080, ‘One Planet’ Cities proposes a pathway...
Old Europe, New Suburbanization?
Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in European Suburbanization
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The youthful vigour of urbanization in North America has promulgated a dominant perspective on urban theory, specifically on suburbs, that establishes the United States as the norm against which all other contexts are measured. However, much of the vocabulary surrounding the American experience isn’t...
Generation Priced Out
Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists...
World City Network
A global urban analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is the myriad of flows...
Total Urban Mobilisation
Ernst Jünger and the Post-Capitalist City
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Jünger. Nawratek formulates the idea of ‘accumulation of agency’ the ability to act, to replace the logic...