City Planning category: 1330 books
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence...
The Housing Question
Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial...
The Future of Airbnb and the Sharing Economy
The Collaborative Consumption of our Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This book deconstructs the ‘sharing’ marketing narratives surrounding Airbnb and similar platforms. It provides a conceptual analysis of the ‘sharing economy’ and accommodation sector and furthers the ongoing discussion surrounding Airbnb and the social sustainability of city tourism. The...
Governing Cities Through Regions
Canadian and European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis...
Beijing Urban Memory
Historic Buildings and Historic Areas, Central Axes and City Walls
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
From the cross-disciplinary perspective of urban management and planning, geography and architecture, this book explores the theory and methods of urban memory, selecting Beijing's historic buildings, historic areas, central areas and city walls as research cases. It is divided into three parts: factors...
Inside Smart Cities
Place, Politics and Urban Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions...
Towards Smart City. Amministrazione Pubblica e città di media dimensione: strategie di governance per uno sviluppo intelligente sostenibile e inclusivo del territorio
Amministrazione Pubblica e città di media dimensione: strategie di governance per uno sviluppo intelligente sostenibile e inclusivo del territorio
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Il volume affronta in modo sistematico i macro-temi e le correlate sfide del mondo contemporaneo (ambiente, società ed economia), dal punto di vista di una Pubblica Amministrazione che intenda attivare concreti processi di sviluppo intelligente, sostenibile e inclusivo del territorio in un’ottica integrata e nel medio-lungo termine.
by Charles Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier people
Charles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.
After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living...
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City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?
Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) independent training course manual from the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) describes how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) work and how using GIS can improve emergency management.
A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a database system...
by William Duncombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In an era of federal deficits and struggling municipalities, states have emerged as the most significant governmental actors. But state governments face the major challenge of fiscal planning in the midst of economic change. Roy Bahl and William Duncombe tackle this challenge head-on. Using New York...
by Nabeel Hamdi
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of practical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape...
What a City Is For
Remaking the Politics of Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.
Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes,...