Urban Regional category: 846 books
The City Moves West
Economic and Industrial Growth in Central West Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Where water supply, railway transportation, and oil reserves have been abundant, towns in central West Texas have prospered; where these resources are few, settlements have maintained only slight growth or disappeared entirely. Supporting his conclusions with profuse statistical evidence, Robert L. Martin...
Urban-Rural Interactions
Towns as Focus Points in Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Modern Europe has rural roots. Even today, as much as 90 per cent of Europe (EU25) consists of rural areas in which half of the population lives. While different rural areas often face different challenges, the shift from agricultural production towards a multifunctional landscape and the increasing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the global information society, innovation is a highly pervasive process that influences all facets of human life: cultural, economic, political, and institutional. A desire to comprehend the impacts of innovative change on so many areas of urban life prompted the research project that has resulted...
Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets
Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are...
by Roberta Capello, K. Bithas, R. Camagni
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainability is placed in the context of the debate on global sustainable development. A wide array of policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment...
Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values
Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Knowledge Cities are cities that possess an economy driven by high value-added exports created through research, technology, and brainpower. In other words, these are cities in which both the private and the public sectors value knowledge, nurture knowledge, spend money on supporting knowledge dissemination...
Dubai
Gilded Cage
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.
In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism,...
by Mark Deakin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Illustrated with empirical case studies from Europe, Africa and North America, this book provides an overview of the wide range of innovative methodologies, models and instruments currently being applied in the formation of and implementation of land management strategies. It examines techniques such...
Reclaiming Backlanes
Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?
Reclaiming...
Metropolitan Regions
Knowledge Infrastructures of the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better understanding...
Employment Location in Cities and Regions
Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The focus of this book is the modeling of the location of economic activities, measured in terms of employment, in land-use and transportation systems. These measures are key inputs to models at intra-urban scales of the flows of persons and goods for both urban and transport planning. The models...
Smart Cities, Smart Future
Showcasing Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and services designed and orchestrated to help people lead...