City Planning category: 1330 books
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The book gives a comprehensive plan for eradication of poverty in Pakistan. (With necessary modifications, it can work also in other poor countries.) It offers answers to all questions:
How will lifetime occupancy of housing and buildings replace ownership? How will the new system generate regular...
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt
Geographies of the Nomos
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930s Germany, and as the figure whose writings on sovereignty, politics, and the law provided justification...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This report summarizes the proceedings of the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Urbanization workshop held in Beijing on 22-23 August 2013. Some 200 participants from the central government, 35 local governments, financiers, private service providers, academic and research institutions, and development...
Suburban Governance
A Global View
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly...
Housing Policy in Latin American Cities
A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Urban Operational Plan (UOP) 2012-2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports ADB developing member countries (DMCs) in expanding their urban economies, improving environmental sustainability, and making pro-poor investments through a 3E approach (Economy, Environment, and Equity). This...
Urbanisation, unlimited
A Thematic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In a series of essays, the process of urbanisation – a human mega-trend acquiring unprecedented scale and speed as globalisation proceeds – is examined in the most diverse contexts and stages of development. Drawing on scientific references and identifying recurring themes like dispersion, privatisation...
Paradoxes of Modernization
Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with 'modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke - why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail? Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
This book explores expertise relevant for two working groups of NeDiMAH, a European Science Foundation (ESF) funded Research Networking Programme. It examines mapping methods, procedures, tools, criticism, awareness, challenges and solutions around the concepts of “Space and Time” and “Information...
Landscape Modelling
Geographical Space, Transformation and Future Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2010
Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include the twin imperatives of stabilizing...
by Amy K. Glasmeier
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Rural America is at a crossroads in its economic development. Like regions of other First World nations, the traditional economic base of rural communities in the United States is rapidly deteriorating. Natural resources, including agriculture, show little prospect for generating future job growth,...
Floods in a Megacity
Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly...
Approaching Urban Design
The Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
This companion to Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses shows how the principles and concepts of urban design can be applied and implemented in a range of real-world settings.
Neon Metropolis
How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.