Urban Regional category: 846 books
Paradise Plundered
Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp...
Farmland Preservation
Land for Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
As land is lost to urban sprawl and other non-farm activity, our ability to produce food is diminished and options for future food production are limited. Farmland preservation speaks to the need to preserve the agricultural land base for future generations. The need for protection is driven by uncertainty...
Making the Metropolitan Landscape
Standing Firm on Middle Ground
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
The American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences. These created environments, which all may be called metropolitan landscapes, constantly challenge students and professionals in the fields of architecture, design and planning to consider...
Creating Cities/Building Cities
Architecture and Urban Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized architecture to achieve a variety of aims, influencing the situation, perception and competitiveness of their cities.
Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System
An Examination of Oakland's Minority Districts
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities’ ability to access healthy, fresh foods. It exposits the meaning of marginalization through several measurement indicators examined from the cross sections...
Towards Healthy Cities
Comparing Conditions for Change
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book explores the conditions needed to make public and private investments in healthy cities most effective. The authors argue that three conditions are essential for such investments: citizen empowerment, corporate responsibility and a coordinated improvement of urban health conditions. Using...
by Alexandra Jayeun Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book discusses that disasters, whether natural or man-made, are essentially a human phenomenon. When a city becomes gridlocked and its resources depleted, the collective resilience of those who remain on the ground becomes critical to its immediate survival and recovery. The author argues...
Residential Location Choice
Models and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
The effective planning of residential location choices is one of the great challenges of contemporary societies and requires forecasting capabilities and the consideration of complex interdependencies which can only be handled by complex computer models. This book presents a range of approaches used...
Complexity and Spatial Networks
In Search of Simplicity
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2009
Complex systems analysis has become a fascinating topic in modern research on non-linear dynamics, not only in the physical sciences but also in the life sciences and the social sciences. After the era of bifurcation theory, chaos theory, syn- getics, resilience analysis, network dynamics and evolutionary...
Montréal et Toronto. Villes intérieures
Villes intérieures
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2011
En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s’implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu’on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des...
by Gabrielle Immarigeon
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Un téléphérique pourrait-il être implanté à Montréal? La ville futuriste des publicités de l’après-guerre ne semble plus si éloignée : se déplacer dans les airs grâce au transport urbain par câble est devenu une réalité pour plusieurs dizaines de villes à travers le monde.
The grain banking model
The research case of the Centre for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) in Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Diploma Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,3, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Europa-Universität Viadrina / Reims Management School), language: English, abstract: The rural sector in development countries is characterized by high covariant...
by Xingyuan Feng, Christer Ljungwall, Sujian Guo
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The Political Economy of China’s Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a general political background for the socio-economic, fiscal and urban and rural transformation.
The book analyses the economic transformation and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
With more than 70 percent of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is among the most urbanized regions in the world. Yet, although its cities are, on average, more productive than those elsewhere in the world, their productivity lags that of North American and Western...