Urban category: 4425 books
by Roseland, Mark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of the classic text presents a leading-edge overview of...
by Richard Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping...
Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia
Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The number of people in South Asia's cities rose by 130 million between 2000 and 2011--more than the entire population of Japan. This was linked to an improvement in productivity and a reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty. But the region's cities have struggled to cope with the pressure of population...
Mitigating Climate Change
The Emerging Face of Modern Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
With ever increasing trends in urban consumption and production practices, a call for action to mitigate Climate Change is often seen as a way to foster sustainable development. Considerable attention is now being paid to determine what urban sustainability would include. Today there is a pressing...
The Illusion of Civil Society
Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. These studies show that neoliberal economic policies have harmed many sectors of society, weakening the state and undermining clientelistic relationships that previously provided...
by John Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “vastly entertaining” history of urban centers—from the ancient world to today (Time).
From the earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today’s teeming centers of compressed existence, such as Mumbai and Tokyo, cities are home to half the planet’s population and consume nearly...
The Durable Slum
Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie...
Constructing China's Capitalism
Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
By investigating the nexus of relationships between urban and rural factories in the Shanghai region of China, this book shines light on an overlooked part of China's massive industrial growth since the 1980s.
Path To Progress
Innovative Solutions for Growth, Prosperity, and Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
As of January 2012, the world held seven billion people, up from five billion just twenty years before. The middle class in China, India, and Brazil is just taking off, which means those countries will desire the same resources Americans currently take for granted. If the rest of the world attempts to...
by Suzuki Hiroaki; Dastur Arish; Moffatt Sebastian; Yabuki Nanae; Maruyama Hinako
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The Eco2 Cities approach is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. At the same time...
Water and the City
Risk, Resilience and Planning for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants. The relationship is complex however; we need both continual availability and protection from its potential impacts. Over recent decades...
Extreme Cities
The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis
How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley...
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Assembling a rich history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. Historically, the city was considered a center of...
Creative Industry Districts
An Analysis of Dynamics, Networks and Implications on Creative Clusters in Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently...