City Planning category: 1330 books
The Spirit of Cities
Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or...
by Genie N. L. Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
We hear the term “sustainability” everywhere today. In the context of city management, the term often refers to environmental concerns, both locally and globally. Managing the Sustainable City examines not only how cities can prepare to weather the local effects of climate change, but also how...
Urban Complexity and Planning
Theories and Computer Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban...
Suburb
Planning Politics and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington,...
Smart Growth and Sustainable Development
Selected Papers from the 9th International Association for China Planning Conference, Chongqing, China, June 19 - 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies. As readers will discover, smart growth offers an approach to urbanization with the aim to: improve the efficiency of land use, protect the natural and...
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco’s perceived permanence.
The crisis...
Reinventing a Small, Worldly City
The Cultural and Social Transformation of Cardiff
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Focusing on Cardiff, the capital city of Wales in the UK, this book reflects on a contemporary small European city – its development, characteristics, and present struggles. Following a century in which it was dubbed the world’s ‘coaltropolis’, the decline in demand for coal meant that Cardiff...
by Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such...
Sustainable City and Creativity
Promoting Creative Urban Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity and contributing to the new creative economy - has become central to most regional and urban development strategies in recent years. A creative city is...
Homelessness in New York City
Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America’s...
Urban Sprawl and Public Health
Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environmin which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and developmin our communities...
Introducing Urban Design
Interventions and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed. The dynamic new subject and profession of urban design straddles the fields of town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning. This...
Spatial planning and resilience following disasters
International and comparative perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Population shifts and an increase in the number of natural (and man-made) disasters are having a profound effect on urban and rural habitats globally. This book brings together for the first time the experiences and knowledge of international contributors from academia, research, policy and practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book synthesizes knowledge from several fields that are crucial to sustainable rural development: the physical environment, biological and agricultural production, rural sociology and economics. It takes a systems perspective incorporating systems analysis, landscape analysis and soil, water,...