City Planning category: 1330 books
Schwestern der Revolution
Aktivistinnen im Kampf gegen Diktatur und Unterdrückung
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Furchtlos in der ersten Reihe standen Frauen bei Revolutionen seit jeher, doch sichtbar haben sie erst die neuen Medien gemacht. Als "das Mädchen mit dem blauen BH" in Ägypten oder die von Wasserwerfern beschossene "Frau im roten Kleid" in der Türkei gingen ihre Bilder um die...
Building American Cities
The Urban Real Estate Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The startling story of how American cities emerge, grow, change, contract, decay, and become resuscitated. With keen insight, the authors analyze urban social processes, such as population migration to suburbia and the effect of foreign capital investment on U.S. real estate ventures. Examining patterns...
Massive Suburbanization
(Re)Building the Global Periphery
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new...
by Daniel W. Ambaye
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This thesis provides a new approach to the Ethiopian Land Law debate. The basic argument made in this thesis is that even if the Ethiopian Constitution provides and guarantees common ownership of land (together with the state) to the people, this right has not been fully realized whether in terms...
by Tino Mager
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of reconstruction go far...
Territories and urbanisation in South Africa
Atlas and geo-historical information system (DYSTURB)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The DYSTURB database collates, harmonises and inter-relates over time the following different elements: a set of political, administrative and functional maps of the districts, provinces and urban areas; the demographic and administrative data for all South African localities from 1911. In all, the...
Building Resilient Cities
An Assessment of Disaster Risk Management Policies in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Asian cities are particularly vulnerable to risks associated with natural disasters. While they are exposed to various types of natural hazards, flooding and other water-related disasters pose particularly significant risks and undermine long-term economic growth, especially in coastal cities. Managing...
Gender, Home & Identity
Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their 'homes' in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able...
Architecture and the Modern Hospital
Nosokomeion to Hygeia
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populations and expectations of lifespan. From the scale of public health to the level of the individual, the architecture of the modern hospital has reshaped knowledge about...
Development Drowned and Reborn
The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane...
Moving toward Integration
The Past and Future of Fair Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and political conversations...
No Place Like Home
Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
More than a million lower-income households in Australia pay above the affordability benchmark for their housing costs. More than 100,000 people are homeless. Seventy per cent of us are concerned we’ll never own property. Yet owning a home is still seen by most Australians as an essential part of...
by Claudio Minca, Rory Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought, offering the first systematic examination from a Geographic perspective of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
After decades "in the shadows", urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate. Long-standing truths are increasingly questioned as a confluence of developments affects lighting itself and the way it is viewed. Light has become an integral element of place-making and energy-saving...