City Planning category: 1330 books
by Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, Marco Amati
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential development,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available. The numerous habitats represented in this book ranges from rows of trees in wooded alleys, to wastelands and remnants of natural habitats encapsulated in the...
The Community Planning Handbook
How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved: planners and...
A Negotiated Landscape
The Transformation of San Francisco’s Waterfront since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco’s iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment.
To understand this landscape Jasper...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This book introduces a key issue in research on the climatic impact of land cover and land use changes via terrestrial biogeophysical processes. The parameterization of surface processes and a systematic approach to modeling the climatic impacts of land use change are discussed respectively, and...
Regional Economic Development
Analysis and Planning Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels....
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
by Un-Habitat
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they...
Second Home Tourism in Europe
Lifestyle Issues and Policy Responses
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Bringing together a wide range of studies from twelve European countries, this book offers a state-of-the-art overview of the driving forces behind spatial diversity and social complexity inherent in second home expansion in all parts of the continent - from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from...
Expansive Discourses
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider...
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes
Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood...
The Suburban Land Question
A Global Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The purpose...
System of Open Spaces
Concrete Project Strategies for Urban Territories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
In the current panorama of urban growth and planning in many urban territories of western societies, open spaces are residual spaces of urban occupation or are reserved for eventual occupation. Open spaces have been viewed in this manner in the earlier stages of the compact city and especially now,...
The Empty Place
Democracy and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice.
Establishing the theoretical basis for the study...