Urban category: 4425 books
by Kristin Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
This book examines the phenomenon of the “digital city” in the US by looking at three case studies: New York City, San Antonio, and Seattle. Kristin Scott considers how digital technologies are increasingly built into the logic and organization of urban spaces and argues that while each city...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Asian cities are central to economic development but are perceived to be wealthy yet chaotic places. Burdened by congestion, inequality, and fragmented interventions, these urban systems remain relatively weak. However, their rapid growth and wealth provide an opportunity to usher in inclusive and...
Green Infrastructure Planning
Reintegrating Landscape in Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
What is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socioeconomic and ecological value does it provide? This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers, and environmentalists keen to understand how...
Breakthroughs
Re-creating the American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Large or small, America's cities have had a difficult time generating admiration, respect, or understanding. They have served the nation as sources of commerce, finance, and the arts. They have taken millions of new Americans from their point of entry and helped newcomers elevate themselves economically...
by Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how...
Degrowth in the Suburbs
A Radical Urban Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is the only feasible principle for suburban...
Rooster Town
The History of an Urban Métis Community, 1901–1961
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Melonville. Smokey Hollow. Bannock Town. Fort Tuyau. Little Chicago. Mud Flats. Pumpville. Tintown. La Coule. These were some of the names given to Métis communities at the edges of urban areas in Manitoba. Rooster Town, which was on the outskirts of southwest Winnipeg endured from 1901 to 1961....
Building Resilient Cities
An Assessment of Disaster Risk Management Policies in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Asian cities are particularly vulnerable to risks associated with natural disasters. While they are exposed to various types of natural hazards, flooding and other water-related disasters pose particularly significant risks and undermine long-term economic growth, especially in coastal cities. Managing...
Constructing the Colonized Land
Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan...
A Haven and a Hell
The Ghetto in Black America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
The black ghetto is thought of as a place of urban decay and social disarray. Like the historical ghetto of Venice, it is perceived as a space of confinement, one imposed on black America by whites. It is the home of a marginalized underclass and a sign of the depth of American segregation. Yet while...
Urban Dreams
Transformations of Family Life in Burkina Faso
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Claudia Roth's work on Bobo-Dioulasso, a city of half a million residents in Burkina Faso, provides uniquely detailed insight into the evolving life-world of a West African urban population in one of the poorest countries in the world. Closely documenting the livelihood strategies of members of various...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this book,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book is unique in that it brings forth the nature and characteristics of 21st century Asian urbanization. It provides a basic framework, particularly as it relates to the patterns, characteristics and problems associated with urbanization. Urban structural models are discussed in relation to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Urban transport systems need to be analyzed from various perspectives: the offer on one hand, the demand on the other hand, but also their negative externalities (risks of transport systems). These three dimensions are rarely apprehended in an integrated perspective. This book provides a large collection...