Urban category: 4425 books
Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement
Practicable Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning and environmental quality management has been widely adopted by governments worldwide. Fully revised and updated with a new preface by editors Donald...
by David Callies, W. Andrew Gowder Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Tax increment financing (TIF) is a method of financing the redevelopment of underperforming property by isolating the value added to the property from a proposed redevelopment (the increment) and taxing that increment only to pay for the redevelopment project. Virtually every state authorizes tax...
Claiming the Streets
Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, C.1830-1880
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Street processions were a defining feature of life in the Victorian town. They were diverse in character and took place regularly throughout the year in all towns. They provided opportunities for men and women to display themselves in public, carrying banners and flags and accompanied by musical bands....
Spatial Regulation in New York City
From Urban Renewal to Zero Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and order-maintenance...
Sex and the Revitalized City
Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Young, single women emerged in the late 1990s as powerful consumers in the wave of real estate development that was reshaping the landscape of cities. Reports claimed that condominium ownership offered women new-found freedom, financial independence, and personal security. But has home ownership truly...
London After Recession
A Fictitious Capital?
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis in the recent years on the City has greatly affected the wider urban and surrounding region, not to say country as a whole. This book examines the impact of the recession and discusses...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
This book examines immigration to small cities throughout Canada. It explores the distinct challenges brought about by the influx of people to urban communities which typically have less than 100,000 residents.
The essays are organized into four main sections: partnerships, resources, and...
Cities at Risk
Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, can...
The Metropolitan Airport
JFK International and Modern New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was...
Rethinking Global Urbanism
Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group...
The Government Next Door
Neighborhood Politics in Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese...
Public Interest, Private Property
Law and Planning Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
At a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are leading municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations, this book lays the groundwork for a more informed debate between those trying to preserve private property rights and those trying to assert public interests.
Rather...
The Help-Yourself City
Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores...
Global City Futures
Desire and Development in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city.” Much discourse on Singapore focuses on its extraordinary socioeconomic development and on the fact that many city and national governors...