City Planning category: 1330 books
Unsettling the City
Urban Land and the Politics of Property
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.
Public Space and Relational Perspectives
New Challenges for Architecture and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going...
Moscow under Construction
City Building, Place-Based Protest, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in city’s governance regime. The groups of citizens discussed in this study have struggled to defend homes, neighborhoods, heritage buildings, and historic...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen. Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development...
The Future of Cities and Regions
Simulation, Scenario and Visioning, Governance and Scale
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This guide for tomorrow’s urban practitioner systematically explains fifteen best practices across three continents; it explores questions of broad interest for designing and planning the future of cities and regions. Key questions addressed are: Is simulation useful to explore the effects of different...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5
Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground...
Atlante delle smart city. Comunità intelligenti europee ed asiatiche
Comunità intelligenti europee ed asiatiche
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Dopo una sezione introduttiva che tratta le definizioni, le politiche e gli strumenti utilizzati a livello europeo per lo sviluppo e la classificazione di una smart city, il volume presenta un ricco atlante delle smart city, una selezione di esempi di città, europee e asiatiche, che hanno sperimentato tecnologie, azioni e strategie in grado di renderle “intelligenti”.
Urban Visions
From Planning Culture to Landscape Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2018
This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism. It explains how the contemporary city and landscape have been shaped by certain twentieth century visions that have carried over into the twenty-first century. Aimed at both students and professionals, this collection of essays on diverse subjects...
by Aldo Bonomi, Roberto Masiero
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Due letture del fenomeno che sta rivoluzionando i territori: comunitario-evolutiva quella di Aldo Bonomi, più attenta ai processi di produzione quella di Roberto Masiero. Anni di dibattiti sul tema delle smart cities, sui dispositivi di tempistica dei semafori o di pagamento dei parcheggi che renderebbero...
Canadian-American Planning
The Seventh Annual Conference on Canadian-American Relations, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The Seventh Annual Seminar of Canadian-American relations held at the University of Windsor brought together a number of distinguished participants, representing such interested groups as labour, business, and research, to discuss planning. The result is this volume which brings together some of the...
The purpose of planning
Creating sustainable towns and cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with...
Town and Country Planning in England and Wales
(Third Edition, Revised)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
The British Town and Country Planning machine is the most sophisticated in the world, yet its inadequacies are only too apparent to those who are familiar with its evolution and operation. During the last decade it has been in a constant state of change in an attempt to come to terms with the needs...
Urban Planning and the Housing Market
International Perspectives for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
This book re-examines the role of urban policy and planning in relation to the housing market in an era of global uncertainty and change. The relationship between planning and the housing market is a contested problem across research, policy, and practice. Problems with housing supply and affordability...
Enabling participatory planning
Planning aid and advocacy in neoliberal times
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support...