Urban category: 4425 books
The Icon Project
Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the private sector in the service...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning brings together contributions from leaders in landscape, transportation, and urban planning. They present case studies - from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa - that ground the exploration of ideas in the realities of sustainable urban...
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious...
by F.W. Porrell
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Most of the research incorporated in this monograph was initially undertaken as part of the author's Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University. The research was funded through a Doctoral Dissertation Grant from the U.S. Department of Housing...
Desert Regions
Population, Migration and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Despite the common understanding of the importance of desert development in the contemporary world, there are relatively few books published to date on this sub ject. The books and collective volumes published in this field deal primarily with environmental and physical aspects of desert development...
China's Emerging Cities
The Making of New Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development.
Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the...
Integrated Productivity in Urban Africa
Introducing the Neo-Mercantile Planning Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa. It proposes a new approach that rethinks neo-liberalism as the meta-theory of planning in Africa, and pioneers an original school of thought that presents a general theory of planning...
New Deal Ruins
Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New...
City
Rediscovering the Center
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."
For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,...
Neo-Socialist Property Rights
The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized...
by Adrienne Schmitz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Packed with photos and site plans, this practical how-to-guide for developing resorts-such as hotels, timeshares, and second-home, retirement, and planned communities-provides an inside look at the challenges faced and lessons learned by actual practitioners in the industry.
by Jim Lightbody
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
City Politics, Canada is an introduction to the basic politics and core policies of today's city halls. While the book surveys classic discussions and accurately describes municipal institutions in Canada, it also explains why particular policies assume the specific shape they do. James Lightbody...
Paradoxes of Green
Landscapes of a City-State
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectives—aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social—in the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous—a radical contrast...
Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
The Struggle to Create Neighborhoods that Serve Human Needs
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods...