City Planning category: 1330 books
Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance
Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The relationship between citizens and city governments is gradually transforming due to the utilization of advanced information and communication technologies in order to inform, consult, and engage citizens. Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity explores...
The Emerging Asian City
Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing...
Mapping Detroit
Land, Community, and Shaping a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
One of Detroit’s most defining modern characteristics—and most pressing dilemmas—is its huge amount of neglected and vacant land. In Mapping Detroit: Land, Community, and Shaping a City, editors June Manning Thomas and Henco Bekkering use chapters based on a variety of maps to shed light on how...
The Creative City
Vision and Execution
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by bridging the gap between the Creative City as concept and the Creative City as practice and, in so doing, provides a contemporary template for policy...
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and...
Potsdamer Platz
The Reshaping of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks...
Boston 1945 - 2015
The Decline and Rebirth of a Great World City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Against all oddes Boston revived itself to become one of the leading centers of the global economy. This book captures how rogue politicians, passionate neighborhood activists, new immigrants, and old time residents fought each other over issues large and small and in the process, preserved and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Urbanization in Asia is expected to reach 55% by 2030 and 64% by 2050 to constitute 53% of the world's urban population and contribute half the world's gross domestic product. But as cities swell, they also struggle with environmental degradation, traffic congestion, inadequate urban infrastructure,...
Green Building Transitions
Regional Trajectories of Innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building. It presents ‘biographies’ of drivers and processes of green building innovation in four case studies: Brisbane (AUS), Freiburg...
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance
Street Level Practices for Urban Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Conflict, Improvisation, Governance presents a carefully crafted and edited collection of first hand accounts of diverse public sector and non-profit urban practitioners facing the practical challenges of "doing democracy" in the global/local context of the interconnected major European...
Design Review
Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
That the topic ofdesign review is somehow trou My biases are clearfrom the start: I am among blesome is probably one thing all readers can those who believe that, despite all signals to the contrary, the physical structure of our environ agree on. Beyond this, however, I suspect pros pects of...
Competitive Cities in the 21st Century
Cluster-Based Local Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Economic challenges in developing Asian countries have become more complex: urban populations are growing at great cost to the environment, climate change has increased risks of natural disasters, and income gaps within and between developing countries are widening. These factors threaten the sustainable...
Where the River Burned
Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
How does the city’s urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one’s decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation...