City Planning category: 1330 books
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
As an important step in developing a methodology for environmentally sustainable economic development, the study explores the concept of environmental livability for the urban centers of the People's Republic of China. The study produced the environmental livability index, a practical tool that can...
Smart Rules for Smart Cities
Managing Efficient Cities in Euro-Mediterranean Countries
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
This book explores the new rules and codes that are required in order to foster the implementation of smart city technologies with a view to meeting the environmental and energy challenges posed by dynamic contemporary cities with increasing populations. In particular, it proposes a methodological...
by Nathalie Haymann
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This story is a blueprint – a written documentary and tangible map of a grassroots activist community initiative of people versus the machine. In their own words, residents of a historical inner city suburb in Queensland describe their protracted and bitter battle with the Brisbane City Council,...
Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City
Freedom, Creativity, Subsidiarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Both “land-use regulation” and “territorial collective services” have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public administrations. Recently, land-use regulation and collective service provision regimes have emerged within “contractual communities:” territory-based...
Production and Use of Urban Knowledge
European Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This book provides new insights on cities and the nature of urban development, and the role of knowledge management in urban growth. It considers how knowledge informs policies and supports decision making, and can assist in addressing the drivers of urban change. The way that knowledge is produced...
The regeneration of east Manchester
A political analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally. The initiative in east Manchester confirmed the tag that the city is the ‘regeneration capital’ of the United Kingdom.
While the book focuses on a single project, it has wider relevance...
by Ann Marie F. Murnaghan, Laura J. Shillington
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising...
A City and Its Universities
Public Policy in Chicago, 1892-1919
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
By focusing on Chicago's first generation of activist professors, Diner shows how modern public policy evolved. Chicago's early academic professionals, believing that they alone could solve the problems of a complex urban society, united to press for reforms in education, criminal justice, social...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism’s onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city inhabitants...
The Fight for Home
How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
When Daniel Wolff first headed down to New Orleans five months after the levees breached, he thought he might spend a year reporting on the recovery ahead. He found people desperate to tell their stories; they had lost the documents of their personal history - the photos and diaries - in the flood....
Mobility Justice
The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis...
Bulldozer Revolutions
A Rural History of the Metropolitan South
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.
Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen...
Leading the inclusive city
Place-based innovation for a bounded planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future in accordance with progressive...
Divided Cities
Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This report provides an assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the report focus on a subset of OECD countries and non-member economies, and provide new insights on cross-cutting issues for city neighbourhooods,...