Urban Regional category: 846 books
Carving Out the Commons
Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations...
Healthy City Planning
From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.
Having made the...
by Lei Wang
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. It argues that the concentration of FDI in the Chinese manufacturing economy since the beginning of this century is largely the result of China's entrepreneurial urban growth strategy,...
State of Urban Services in India's Cities
Spending and Financing
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
With increasing population and expanding demand for urban infrastructure services, the capacities of local governments in many developing countries are overburdened. Adequate infrastructure is not only necessary for increasing productivity but also improving the quality of living. Given the primacy...
Regenerating Urban Land
A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements....
The Economies of Urban Diversity
Ruhr Area and Istanbul
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
The Economics of Urban Diversity explores ethnic and religious minorities in urban economies. In this exciting work, the contributors develop an integrative approach to urban diversity and economy by employing concepts from different studies and linking historical and contemporary analyses of economic,...
Transport Systems of Russian Cities
Ongoing Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This volume discusses post-socialist urban transport functioning and development in Russia, within the context of the country’s recent transition towards a market economy. Over the past twenty-five years, urban transport in Russia has undergone serious transformations, prompted by the transitioning...
by Yang Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book discusses one of the most noticeable and significant transformations in China over the past three decades is the rapid and massive urbanization of the country, which has brought shifts in political culture of Chinese urbanites. This book is a systematic and empirical study of political culture...
by John Goddard, Paul Vallance
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores...
Low-Carbon Smart Cities
Tools for Climate Resilience Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book aims to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation tools into conventional urban planning. It emphasizes the value and importance of ICT as connected technology. The author believes that ICT and IOT can facilitate controlling climate change attributes when deployed with appropriate...
The Practice of Spatial Analysis
Essays in memory of Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This edited volume compiles a set of papers that present various applications of spatial analysis, both traditional and contemporary, on diverse subjects in a wide range of contexts. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Pavlos Kanaroglou, McMaster University, Canada, who greatly...
Panels for Transportation Planning
Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Panels for Transportation Planning argues that panels - repeated measurements on the same sets of households or individuals over time - can more effectively capture dynamic changes in travel behavior, and the factors which underlie these changes, than can conventional cross-sectional surveys. Because...
Global Modernization Review
New Discoveries and Theories Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Modernization has effected a profound change in human civilizations and is a global trend since the 18th century. It includes not only the great change and transformation from traditional to modern politics, economies, societies and cultures, but also all human development and protection of the natural...
Knowledge-creating Milieus in Europe
Firms, Cities, Territories
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book introduces a radically spatialised approach to knowledge creation and innovation. Reflecting on an array of European urban and regional developments, it offers an updated notion of milieu as the conceptual and material space of knowledge and innovation in line with the interpretative turn...