City Planning category: 1330 books
Condo Conquest
Urban Governance, Law, and Condoization in New York City and Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
When condominiums first emerged in North American cities in the 1960s, they were a new kind of housing governed by boards of resident owners volunteering in a community. Condo Conquest shows how the condo and its inner governance have since become something else entirely, taken over – or conquered...
Shrinking Cities in China
The Other Facet of Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have begun attracting increasing...
by Luca P. Marescotti
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 3, 2017
The publishing program brings together new manuscripts (Teaching Land Use Planning as a Science, Landscapes, The Planner and the Small Planet) with the revision of two books published in 2004, “Città Tecnologie Ambiente (Cities Technologies Environment)” and in 2008, “Urbanistica. Fondamenti...
Streetfight
Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, bikers, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets...
Vanishing New York
How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIR
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
We're Still Here Ya Bastards
How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.
We're Still Here...
by Alan Ehrenhalt
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.
Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted...
Cities Are Good for You
The Genius of the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our coffin or our ark.
Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities...
by Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, Julia Parzen, Steven S. Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Superstorm Sandy sent a strong message that a new generation of urban development and infrastructure is desperately needed, and it must be designed with resilience in mind. As cities continue to face climate change impacts while growing in population, they find themselves at the center of resilience...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore...
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Assembling a rich history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. Historically, the city was considered a center of...
Seminal Studies in Regional and Urban Economics
Contributions from an Impressive Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career. In addition to bringing together a selection of Professor Camagni’s most influential...
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The CQ Press Guide to Urban Politics and Policy in the United States will bring the CQ Press reference guide approach to topics in urban politics and policy in the United States. If the old adage that “all politics is local” is even partially true, then cities are important centers for political...