City Planning category: 1330 books
The Governance of Place
Space and Planning Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Views on spatial planning and its role have changed significantly over the past few years and the issues it deals with have become increasingly more complex. There are more players involved in the development of a particular area or place than ever before and there is also a greater interest in urban...
Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
History, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning in the United States, from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s to today’s concerns over sustainable development, security, and pollution control.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
This book provides an overview of recent developments and applications of the Land Use Scanner model, which has been used in spatial planning for well over a decade. Internationally recognized as among the best of its kind, this versatile model can be applied at a national level for trend extrapolation,...
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods in Singapore
The Convergence of Policies, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues. It is divided into three themes – infrastructure, planning,...
Strategic Spatial Projects
Catalysts for Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Strategic Spatial Projects presents four years of case study research and theoretical discussions on strategic spatial projects in Europe and North America. It takes the position that planning is not well equipped to take on its current challenges if it is considered as only a regulatory and administrative...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The term "Green City" has many different meanings to different people. There is no universal solution that can be applied to every city. Adaptable, responsive, and innovative solutions that differ from one place to another enable Green Cities to emerge in various forms and enable us to recognize...
A City's Architecture
Aberdeen as 'Designed City'
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. In addition, the more diffuse patterns of settlement of the north and western parts of Europe are hardly considered...
Naked City
The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity,...
Summer in the City
John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society Program. Providing an even-handed reassessment of Lindsay’s legacy and the policies of the period, the essays...
by Buzz Bissinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights, the heart-wrenching and hilarious true story of an American city on its knees and a man who will do anything to save it.
A Prayer for the City is acclaimed journalist Buzz Bissinger's true epic of Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell,...
Building and Dwelling
Ethics for the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward
Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people...
The Poisoned City
Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.
Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes....
The Twentieth-Century American City
Problem, Promise, and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race,...
George Washington's Washington
Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington’s original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac. In 1791 Washington’s ideas found form in architect Peter Charles L’Enfant’s plans for the city. Yet the unprecedented scope...