City Planning category: 1330 books
We Shall Not Be Moved
Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal...
Emergency Preparedness
A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property and Business Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Emergency Preparedness: A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property, and Business Continuity provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters. It helps the reader to create an organization-wide emergency management plan that...
Rethinking Urban Parks
Public Space and Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening...
Coming Home after Disaster
Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political considerations. The multi-faceted nature of housing recovery requires a holistic approach that accounts for its numerous dimensions and contours that...
Reclaiming Backlanes
Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?
Reclaiming...
ReNew Town
Adaptive Urbanism and the Low Carbon Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes.
To date, much of the discourse on the design...
Sunburnt Cities
The Great Recession, Depopulation and Urban Planning in the American Sunbelt
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand is the increasing urgency of addressing the issue of urban decline, and the response...
Housing and Economic Development in Indian Country
Challenge and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Among America's most complex planning environments, Indian country continues to face innumerable challenges to its community development. These factors are historic in nature, creating an assemblage of complex problems in reservation land management, policy implementation, and the ability of tribes...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
A comprehensive update, the fourth edition of this leading text features numerous chapters by new authors addressing the latest trends and topics in the field. The book presents the foundational concepts and methodological tools that readers need in order to engage with today's pressing urban transportation...
Swarming Landscapes
The Art of Designing For Climate Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today’s spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future, yet which are relatively uncontroversial:...
by Christopher Boone, Ali Modarres
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
For the first time in history, more than half the people of the world live in cities. Comprehending the impact of this widespread urbanization requires an awareness of the complex relationships between cities and natural ecosystems. This innovative book moves beyond the anti-urban lamentations that...
by Čedo Maksimović, Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can shift from being water...
by Georg Simmel
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel
These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw...
No Straight Lines
Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life. With particular attention to the small city of Kamloops, BC, this collection explores the impact of extended,...