City Planning category: 1330 books
by Emmanuel V. Marmaras
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects....
Emergent Spatio-temporal Dimensions of the City
Habitus and Urban Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity. The argument draws not only on aspects of movement in time, but also on a cultural and specifically social context influencing the creation of the spatial habitus. The book reconsiders existing theories of time and space in the field of urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book sheds light on Sir Peter Hall’s visions and contributions as recalled by experts. Specialists from the fields of transport and geography testify to Sir Peter Hall’s enormous impact on urban planning, urban geography, and transport geography, and The IGU Commission on Transport and Geography...
by Robert Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong
How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can...
Street Smart
The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. Gridlock Sam,” one of the most respected transportation engineers in the world and consummate insider in NYC political circles, uncovers how American cities became so beholden to cars and why the current...
Demystifying Doha
On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In...
Johannesburg
The Elusive Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic...
Visualizing the Data City
Social Media as a Source of Knowledge for Urban Planning and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present...
Smart Cities, Digital Nations
Building Smart Cities in Emerging Countries and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Twenty-first century life, for most people, will be an urban experience. As millions migrate to cities in search of opportunity and connection, our conception of how a city runs, uses resources and manages public services must change. The city itself must be reimagined as a matrix of functions and...
The Making of Grand Paris
Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.
In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced,...
Greening Berlin
The Co-Production of Science, Politics, and Urban Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.
Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of...
Unorthodox Ways to Think the City
Representations, Constructions, Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art...
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million, or approximately one third of the country’s total population. As the urban component of this population increases, the need for resources...
Towns and Cities: Function in Form
Urban Structures, Economics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a theory of the form of the town at all...