City Planning category: 1330 books
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats. The first global overview and synthesis of the impacts of urbanisation on insects and their...
Community-Based Urban Development
Evolving Urban Paradigms in Singapore and Seoul
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life. Singapore and Seoul are known for their rapid economic...
by Hugh C. Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Conformity is a common coping strategy for dealing with stresses in political situations, as well a strategy for dealing with the lack of agreed foundations. This work introduces the conceptual frameworks of coping and conformity to provide a new analysis of the ethical and political demands of international...
China’s New Urbanization
Developmental Paths, Blueprints and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book answers the call for New Urbanization, and proposes a “5+9+6” national spatial layout plan for the urbanization of the 770 major cities in China. This macro pattern is based on a few major metropolises at the center, and other cities supporting and benefitting from these metropolises...
The Politics of Urban Water
Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased. Today, luxury homes and shops line riverbanks, harbors, and lakes across Europe and North America. The visual drama of physical reconstruction makes this transition look swift and decisive, but reimaging water is a slow process,...
Community Capacity Building
Creating a Better Future Together
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Community capacity building (CCB) is a fairly new term for an age-old good: enabling people to define their own destinies. This book presents and analyses some of the most interesting recent developments in the field of community capacity building, in a variety of OECD and non-OECD countries. The...
Housing in 21st-Century Australia
People, Practices and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Over the last two decades new and significant demographic, economic, social and environmental changes and challenges have shaped the production and consumption of housing in Australia and the policy settings that attempt to guide these processes. These changes and challenges, as outlined in this book,...
War, Identity and the Liberal State
Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical in the Armed Forces
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not...
Urban Issues
Selections from CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
What are the driving forces behind Smart Cities? What are the ramifications of increasing the minimum wage? What are the causes of aging infrastructure and how should they be addressed?
These are just some of the provocative questions that are considered in the new edition of Urban Issues....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Municipal image-building now promotes cities globally, and also to their own citizens. Image-building in Canadian Municipalities explores the decision making processes that determine how cities and towns choose to represent themselves. It also assesses the effectiveness of those processes and of the...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Regions in Switzerland are performing well in many respects. They have high levels of GDP per capita and low unemployment rates, and some regions show impressive growth rates. In addition, Swiss regions have not been confronted with the challenges faced by many similar regions in the OECD, such as...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
While community quality-of-life indicators are gaining much needed attention in both scholarly work and practice, their application in the areas of parks, recreation and tourism management are not as well known. The applicability of indicator systems for natural resource and natural resource area...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The proposed book is a sequel to volume 1-4 of Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases. The first volume, Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases was edited by M. Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz, and Dong-Jin Lee and published in 2004 by Kluwer Academic Publishers in the Social Indicators...
West Ham and the River Lea
A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of London, the environment, and the history of political and social movements, as well as those interested in precursors to modern urban environmental politics.