City Planning category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The social and economic systems of any country are influenced by a range of factors. As the global population grows in developing nations, it has become essential to examine the effects of urbanization. Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions is a pivotal reference...
Cities and Space
The Future Use of Urban Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living. Originally published in 1963
Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling
Decision-Support and Planning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book is a collection of original research papers that focus on recent developments in Spatial Analysis and Modelling with direct relevance to settlements and infrastructure. Topics include new types of data (such as simulation data), applications of methods to support decision-making, and investigations...
by Karolin Frank
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part...
Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
From Words to Housing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?
"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto...
Public Interest, Private Property
Law and Planning Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
At a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are leading municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations, this book lays the groundwork for a more informed debate between those trying to preserve private property rights and those trying to assert public interests.
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Smart Economy in Smart African Cities
Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart...
The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities
Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The population of cities around the world is growing at an alarming rate, and as a result the landscapes of most cities are going through enormous changes. In particular, fertile agricultural lands at the periphery of cities are being developed without consideration of holistic planning. As such,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in suburbia. The book highlights suburban business complexes and mixed-use centers throughout the United...
How to save our town centres
A radical agenda for the future of high streets
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Has the age of the internet killed our high streets? Have our town and city centres become obsolete? How to Save Our Town Centres delves below the surface of empty buildings and ‘shop local’ campaigns to focus on the real issues: how the relationship between people and places is changing; how...
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis
Politics, Architecture, Landscape Sustainability and Multidisciplinary Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally...
Urbanism Without Effort
Reconnecting with First Principles of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
How do you create inviting and authentic urban environments where people feel at home? Countless community engagement workshops, studies by consulting firms, and downtown revitalization campaigns have attempted to answer this age-old question. In Urbanism Without Effort, Chuck Wolfe argues that "unplanned”...
Olympic Cities
City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and enlarged third edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Assisted by globalization and the rapid application of advanced technologies, the transformative power of urbanization is being felt around the world. The scale and the speed of existing and projected urbanization poses several challenges to researchers in multiple disciplines, such as computer science,...