Urban Regional category: 846 books
Brew to Bikes
Portland's Artisan Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Portland, Oregon—urban nexus for the artisan and entrepreneur, flourishing metropolis where goods both hip and homespun converge. Brew to Bikes celebrates emerging industries that combine the artisan aesthetic with business ingenuity and an ethos of sustainability. Author Charles Heying guides readers...
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and the lives that are altered in the process.
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the...
From Neighborhoods to Nations
The Economics of Social Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Just as we learn from, influence, and are influenced by others, our social interactions drive economic growth in cities, regions, and nations--determining where households live, how children learn, and what cities and firms produce. From Neighborhoods to Nations synthesizes the recent economics of...
Smart City Implementation
Creating Economic and Public Value in Innovative Urban Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world. After defining the concept it then elaborates on the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)...
The Organization of Transport
A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns. These investigations criticize the concept of mobility itself, suggesting the need to merge transport and communication research, and to approach the topic with novel instruments and...
by Richard Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping...
Leveraging Urbanization in South Asia
Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The number of people in South Asia's cities rose by 130 million between 2000 and 2011--more than the entire population of Japan. This was linked to an improvement in productivity and a reduction in the incidence of extreme poverty. But the region's cities have struggled to cope with the pressure of population...
Constructing China's Capitalism
Shanghai and the Nexus of Urban-Rural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
By investigating the nexus of relationships between urban and rural factories in the Shanghai region of China, this book shines light on an overlooked part of China's massive industrial growth since the 1980s.
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...
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...
China Base
CountyLevel Economy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This unique volume takes a very different approach to the county-level governance and the land system reform in China. Based on thorough–going interviews with — township and village cadres, the book analyzes the current major conflicts in rural areas: between urbanization and rural development,...
From the Outside In
Suburban Elites, Third-Sector Organizations, and the Reshaping of Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban municipalities and their larger metropolitan regions. She shows how major nongovernmental, nonmarket institutions are taking responsibility for reshaping Philadelphia, led by suburban...
by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at...
The Towers of New Capital
Mega Townships in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Based on the study of a number of large mega township projects under development on the urban fringes of Delhi and Ahmedabad, The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization. What are the social and economic impacts of large mega projects?...