City Planning category: 1330 books
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Over the past 30 years, rapid urbanization and economic growth have transformed the cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). But this unprecedented urbanization has highlighted challenges that demand significant changes to basic urban management and planning policies. This report is based on...
Montréal et Toronto. Villes intérieures
Villes intérieures
Language: French
Release Date: December 8, 2011
En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s’implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu’on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des...
by Gabrielle Immarigeon
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Un téléphérique pourrait-il être implanté à Montréal? La ville futuriste des publicités de l’après-guerre ne semble plus si éloignée : se déplacer dans les airs grâce au transport urbain par câble est devenu une réalité pour plusieurs dizaines de villes à travers le monde.
Accommodating difference
Evaluating supported housing for vulnerable people
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed – whether hostels, group homes, extra-care housing or retirement villages. But do these settings effectively improve the well-being of those who live in them? This...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
How can we engage communities? What is empowerment? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How is an outsider-insider relationship handled? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How are organizational and contextual influences handled...
Cities at Risk
Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, can...
'One Planet' Cities
Sustaining Humanity within Planetary Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.
With four out of five people predicted to be urban dwellers by 2080, ‘One Planet’ Cities proposes a pathway...
by Donald F. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local...
by Maria Laura Scaduto
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This book aims to stimulate new thinking on the roles of river contracts in the protection and management of hydrographic resources and ecosystems and in the sustainable development of dependent territories and communities. Up-to-date information is provided on a range of topics relating to river...
Myanmar
Urban Development and Water Sector Assessment, Strategy and Road Map
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This publication documents the current assessment and strategic investment priorities for the urban development and water sector in Myanmar. It highlights sector performance, priority development constraints, plans and strategies, past support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and experience,...
by Timothy D. Brady
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
So what constitutes five star, superior customer service in the trucking industry? When a satisfied shipper congratulates you on that 'great outcome.' But those great outcomes don't come easy. The pressure to meet each drop-dead deadline is on you, the owner-manager, as the 'truck stops here' blame...
Towards Sustainable Cities
East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep...
Constructing Metropolitan Space
Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world. In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes are occurring according to a rationale...
Spatial Cultures
Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research...