City Planning category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future. It addresses this challenge by considering current cities and those of the near future, and creates a picture of the sustainable city...
Global Research of Cities
A Case of Chengdu
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu’s development into a global city. To do so, it adopts both external and internal perspectives: externally, it highlights Chengdu’s agglomeration and...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In 1912, Daniel Burnham and his family are aboard the RMS Olympic, the second largest cruise ship in the world and sister ship to the Titanic. Burnham has gained fame and wealth from aiding in the construction of the World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893. Nearly two decades later, Burnham is sixty-two...
The Cultural Contradictions of Progressive Politics
The Role of Cultural Change and the Global Economy in Local Policymaking
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Why do some U.S. cities like Seattle and Boston impose social exactions and sustainability targets on private investment while others like Las Vegas and Houston offer property tax and fee remissions to business, tolerate environmentally hazardous activities such as oil drilling, and express skepticism...
Transforming Asian Cities
Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical...
by Ralf Brand, Sara Fregonese
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast, Beirut, Amsterdam and Berlin, this book examines the role of the urban environment in social polarisation processes. In doing so, it provides a timely and refreshingly innovative voice in the confusing babble on (counter-)terrorism, urban conflict...
Chinese Urban Design
The Typomorphological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. With the rapid development taking place, there is growing conflict between this new building and the existing urban heritage. An appropriate approach, both in design and in legislation, is urgently needed to deal with this problem. Furthermore,...
Merger Delusion
How Swallowing Its Suburbs Made an Even Bigger Mess of Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Powerless under the country's constitution, Canadian municipal governments often find themselves in conflict with their provincial masters. In 2002, the Province of Quebec forcibly merged all cities on the Island of Montreal into a single municipality - a decision that was partially reversed in 2006....
Public Problems - Private Solutions?
Globalizing Cities in the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation. They are prime locations of innovation, while at the same time facing growing problems of spatial fragmentation and social exclusion. By addressing these problems, cities become forerunners for new patterns of governance, which include increasingly...
Modèles de la ville durable en Asie / Asian models of sustainable city
Utopies, circulation des pratiques, gouvernance / Utopia, circulation of practices, governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Le monde est désormais entré dans l’ère de l’urbain, la majorité des habitants de la planète vivant en ville. Rassemblant les deux tiers de la population mondiale, l’Asie concentre plus de la moitié des villes vulnérables dans le monde. Le thème de la ville durable en Asie s’est donc...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense...
Transforming San Antonio
An Insider's View to the AT&T Arena, Toyota, the PGA Village, and the Riverwalk Extension
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
San Antonio boasts one of the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck. In this lively behind-the-scenes account, former mayor Nelson Wolff focuses on four major developments - the San Antonio Spurs’...
Sunbelt Cities
Politics and Growth since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Between 1940 and 1980, the Sunbelt region of the United States grew in population by 112 percent, while the older, graying Northeast and Midwest together grew by only 42 percent. Phoenix expanded by an astonishing 1,138 percent. San Diego, Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, Tampa, Miami, and Atlanta quadrupled...
by Zhang Ming
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: "What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?" The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary...