City Planning category: 1330 books
Smart Cities, Smart Future
Showcasing Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and services designed and orchestrated to help people lead...
Planning and Conflict
Critical Perspectives on Contentious Urban Developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Planning and Conflict discusses the reasons for conflicts around urban developments and analyzes their shape in contemporary cities. It offers an interdisciplinary framework for scholars to engage with the issue of planning conflicts, focusing on both empirical and theoretical inquiry.
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Urban Governance and Informal Settlements
Lessons from the City of Jayapura, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2019
The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries. Set within the context of understanding urban planning and management within the wider city setting,...
The Divided City
Ideological and Policy Contestations in Contemporary Urban India
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Divided City contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on cities of the global South. Cities in developing countries, particularly emerging economies, are undergoing rapid urbanization and social transition. Empirically grounded to the contemporary urban situation in India, The Divided...
A City So Grand
The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Once upon a time, "Boston Town" was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world's great metropolises-one that achieved national and international prominence...
City on the Verge
Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century
Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked highways,...
City-Regions in Prospect?
Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing...
by Steven Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. For the first time in human history, the majority of the people on the planet live in urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our...
Small Business and the City
The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a...
The Well-Tempered City
What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in...
Common Ground in a Liquid City
Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a truly sustainable city?Common Ground...
Digital Urban Acupuncture
Human Ecosystems and the Life of Cities in the Age of Communication, Information and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of...
by Prakash Madhusudan Apte
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
What should be a city's Vision Plan? How should a Region and City development plan be prepared? What is the impact of ïliberalization' and policies like the establishment of Special Economic Zones? Can a sustainable development model be evolved in a city? Should slums be redeveloped or remodelled? Are...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This Review of Venice, Italy, offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region’s economy and the extent to which its land use, labour market and environmental policies embrace a metropolitan vision. A new understanding of the provinces of Padua, Treviso and Venice as an interconnected city-region...