City Planning category: 1330 books
by Lucy Bullivant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!
In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles...
GDF - Green Density Factor and GCF - Green Cooling Factor
A specific calculation method to integrate green roofs, green facades and their evapotranspiration cooling rate into the general planning procedure of architects and planners
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The GDF and GCF are two factors invented and designed by German Architect and Developer Florian Betzler. They demonstrate the possibilities to cool the microclimates of hot cities and let estates function as cooling units within an overheated climate for any city, starting from a small scale and ending...
Urban and Regional Planning Education
Learning for India
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India. Prior to the 1990s, planning education in India was largely confined to national and local economic concerns. Within a globalized scenario, such pedagogies and...
Reinterpreting Sub-Saharan Cities through the Concept of Adaptive Capacity
An Analysis of Autonomous Adaptation in Response to Environmental Changes in Peri-Urban Areas
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This book explores whether and how a reinterpretation of Sub-Saharan cities, through the concept of adaptive capacity, could bridge this distance and contribute to a new understanding of the contemporary city. The research contributes to improved knowledge of urban and environmental planning and of...
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village
Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible...
by Junichiro Okata
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Systems of transportation long ago developed out of the profound human need to connect and communicate. Transport today is still the only means for the physical movement of goods and people. Alongside the evolution of transportation and communication technologies, the astounding phenomenon of urbanization...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews...
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and the lives that are altered in the process.
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the...
American Hometown Renewal
Policy Tools and Techniques for Small Town Officials
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town’s commercial spine and served as the linchpin for community social solidarity. Yet, during the past three decades, a series of economic downturns has left many of the great small cities barely viable. American Hometown Renewal is the...
English Regional Planning 2000-2010
Lessons for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning during these years, whereby large steps forward were made, but where policy...
Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico...
The New Century of the Metropolis
Urban Enclaves and Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's major cities in the twenty-first century.
Tom Angotti is fundamentally...
by Suzuki Hiroaki; Dastur Arish; Moffatt Sebastian; Yabuki Nanae; Maruyama Hinako
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The Eco2 Cities approach is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. At the same time...