City Planning category: 1330 books
Welcome to the Urban Revolution
How Cities Are Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last fifty years-the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America-were fundamentally urban revolutions....
The New Localism
How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.
In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious...
Tom Gilmartin
The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
A successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians and public officials would want a slice of the action … in the form...
The Fires
How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New Yo rk City--and Determined the Future of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
New York City, 1968. The RAND Corporation had presented an alluring proposal to a city on the brink of economic collapse: Using RAND's computer models, which had been successfully implemented in high-level military operations, the city could save millions of dollars by establishing more efficient...
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
Beijing, Chicago, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth...
by Carol M. Reese, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Fontenot
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
When the levees broke in August 2005 as a result of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city of New Orleans was flooded, with a loss of 134,000 homes and 986 lives. In particular, the devastation hit the vulnerable communities the hardest: the old, the poor and the African American. The disaster...
Resilient Downtowns of Small Urban Communities
A New Approach to Revitalizing Small- and Medium-City Downtowns
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for...
Perspectives in Urban Ecology
Ecosystems and Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Metropolis of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology. Basic understanding of urban nature development and its social reception are discussed for the European Metropolitan Area of Berlin. Furthermore, we investigate specific consequences for the environment, nature and the quality of life...
Terrain Vague
Interstices at the Edge of the Pale
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits...
Sustainable Food Systems
The Role of the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today’s global food crisis. By...
Divided Cities
Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants...
Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing
Turin, up to the Current Neo-Liberal Approach and Social Innovation Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution. Through a unique case study on the city of Turin it explores social innovation and the relationship between the urban regeneration process and housing...
by Anthony M. Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.
We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in...
State of the World's Cities 2010/11
Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructures? Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the...