Urban category: 4425 books
Urban Transformations
Sustainable Urban Development Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance...
Cities and Agriculture
Developing Resilient Urban Food Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
As people increasingly migrate to urban settings and more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, it is vital to plan and provide for sustainable and resilient food systems which reflect this challenge. This volume presents experience and evidence-based "state of the art"...
Emerging Urban Spaces
A Planetary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects – namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative ‘Southern’ post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its...
Sunburnt Cities
The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in the American Sunbelt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand is the increasing urgency of addressing the issue of urban decline, and the response...
by Claudio Coletta
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forward a notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, it perceives...
Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future
The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed,...
Urban Geology
Process-Oriented Concepts for Adaptive and Integrated Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance. In this book a multidisciplinary team of specialists and scientists presents innovative process-oriented approaches to the sustainable use of...
by Ravi S. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
India, like other Asian countries, is urbanizing quite rapidly. And, both persisting and emerging urban problems are acquiring unprecedented form and dimensions. The available academic works are generally over-burdened with theoretical issues and in many cases with abstraction. This book therefore...
Myanmar
Urban Development and Water Sector Assessment, Strategy and Road Map
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This publication documents the current assessment and strategic investment priorities for the urban development and water sector in Myanmar. It highlights sector performance, priority development constraints, plans and strategies, past support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and experience,...
The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities
Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The population of cities around the world is growing at an alarming rate, and as a result the landscapes of most cities are going through enormous changes. In particular, fertile agricultural lands at the periphery of cities are being developed without consideration of holistic planning. As such,...
City Making and Urban Governance in the Americas
Curitiba and Portland
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Cities in both North and South America are confronting tremendous challenges in urban growth and management as they enter the new century. Curitiba in Brazil and Portland in Oregon, US are cities that have achieved recognition for exemplary urban planning programmes over the past three decades. As...
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
Interruptions and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism.
Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading scholars from anthropology, geography, urban...
An Urban Politics of Climate Change
Experimentation and the Governing of Socio-Technical Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of cities to rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions...
Modeling Urban Dynamics
Mobility, Accessibility and Real Estate Value
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The field of Urban Dynamics itself is based on the systems engineering concept that all complex systems (and cities and urban areas are no exception) are comprised of independent and often smaller, more understandable sub-components with relationships to one another. This allows for the system as...