City Planning category: 1330 books
by Paul Barter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Most Asian cities are facing an acute parking crisis as a result of rapid urbanization and motorization, and high urban densities. Parking policy is an important component of a holistic approach to sustainable urban transport across the region. The report provides an international comparative perspective...
Spell of the Urubamba
Anthropogeographical Essays on an Andean Valley in Space and Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This work examines the valley of the Urubamba River in terms of vertical zonation, Incan impact on the environment, plant use, the history of exploration and the notion of discovery, the idea of land reform, and cultural contact with the European world. Winding its path northward from the Andean Highlands...
by Peter Herrle, Astrid Ley
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil society in the form of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and their allies are increasingly networking and emerging as strong players that cannot easily...
Homeless Outreach & Housing First
Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From the author of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
Jay S. Levy brings us a new educational resource entitled Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned. This monograph features three written works on homelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of...
Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation
Agonism, Restitution & Repair
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict.
This volume asks how many of the...
Leaky Governance
Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
With its focus on water supply, Leaky Governance will be of interest to professionals, scholars, students, and policymakers working on related issues across a variety of disciplines, including geography, urban studies, environmental studies, political science, and public policy.
Regeneration Songs
Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Twenty-seven leading artists, writers and academics come together to tackle one of the most drastic urban regeneration programmes in world history - the "Regeneration Supernova" of East London.
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt...
by Denise Pumain, Romain Reuillon
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the century. This “urban transition”...
Development of the Settlement Network in the Central European Countries
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
This volume intends to summarize the most important changes in the Central European countries and their settlement network emphasizing the last 20 years since the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Aid Effectiveness in Africa
Developing Trust between Donors and Governments
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2004
A significant contribution to the ongoing debate on aid effectiveness, Aid Effectiveness in Africa starts from the premise that money alone will not bring sustained development to Africa. With grounding in years of experience and fieldwork, Phyllis R. Pomerantz examines the relationship between aid...
Politics of Violence
Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the name
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of violence and politics by highlighting the implicit violence within political and economic structures. But in an era of international terrorism and counter-terrorism, should we not also reverse...
Subnational Public-Private Partnerships
Meeting Infrastructure Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
This report focuses on the challenges of governing infrastructure investment and public-private partnerships (PPPs) at the subnational level. Subnational governments – cities and regions – play a vital role in the infrastructure landscape. Infrastructure needs in energy, transport, water and telecommunications...
Politics of the Event
Time, Movement, Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Despite occupying a central role and frequently being used in the study of international politics, the concept of the "event" remains in many ways unchallenged and unexplored. By combining the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and his concept of the event with the example of 9/11 as an historical...
Satoyama
The Traditional Rural Landscape of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Japan’s traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate. The carefully managed coppice woodlands on the hillsides, the villages strung along the base of the hills, and the carefully tended paddy fields...