City Planning category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both imaginative policy development...
by The School of Life, Hugo Macdonald
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Building a relationship with a city is a lot like building a relationship with another person - just as cities can be intoxicating, generous and inspiring, so they can also be dangerous, fickle and impenetrable. How to Live in the City is a book for navigating and nurturing this important relationship.
Hugo...
The Servant Class City
Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty replaced by high-rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor people have been concentrated in low-paying...
Building a World Heritage City
Sanaa, Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
"Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2018"
The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, led by local agencies and actors. In contrast to...
The Dead City
Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire. The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination...
Center of Dreams
Building a World-Class Performing Arts Complex in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Discover how one spectacular building project revolutionized Miami, how one man's moxie helped turn a fractious tropical city into a cultural capital of the Americas. In Center of Dreams, New York Times bestselling author Les Standiford tells the inspiring story of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the...
by Warren Magnusson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Despite decades of talk about globalization, democracy still depends on local self-government. In Local Self-Government and the Right to the City, Warren Magnusson argues that it is the principle behind claims to personal autonomy, community control, and national self-determination, and holds the promise...
by Majd Musa
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have significantly transformed the city’s built environment. Therefore, to understand urban transformation in Amman during this period it is important to analyze...
Smart Economy in Smart Cities
International Collaborative Research: Ottawa, St.Louis, Stuttgart, Bologna, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar, Lagos, New Delhi, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Kozhikode, Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development. The book surveys the state of the art of Smart City Economic Development through a literature survey. The book uses 13 in depth city research case studies in 10 countries such as the North America, Europe,...
Science and the City
The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?
Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary...
Building Community, Chinatown Style
A Half Century of Leadership in San Francisco Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Gordon Chin, nationally recognized community leader and activist, tells the compelling story of the rise of civic and political power in San Francisco's Chinatown from the 1960s through the election of a Chinese American mayor in 2011. This grass roots community leadership has made San Francisco Chinatown...
A Study on Globalizing Cities
Theoretical Frameworks and China's Modes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.
With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this...
by Vincent Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Conditions for travel have changed and are still changing the world – a world experiencing what John Urry calls the ‘mobility turn’. Since World War Two we have been moving faster and going further – a fact that has profoundly changed our way of experiencing both the world and ourselves. The...
Singapore Perspectives 2010
Home.Heart.Horizon
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
The Singapore Perspectives series is a yearly publication that provides critical analysis of emerging trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development. It is a quick and essential reference for understanding the broad policy discussions that animate thought...