City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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...
A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia
Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that...
Beijing Urban Memory
Historic Buildings and Historic Areas, Central Axes and City Walls
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
From the cross-disciplinary perspective of urban management and planning, geography and architecture, this book explores the theory and methods of urban memory, selecting Beijing's historic buildings, historic areas, central areas and city walls as research cases. It is divided into three parts: factors...
Smart Economy in Smart African Cities
Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart...
by Helmut E. Landsberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1981
The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create...
Visual Pollution
Advertising, Signage and Environmental Quality
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the problems that public spaces face because of the design of commercial signs. The negative consequences that commercial signs can have on the visual quality of urban areas and further more, on people's quality of life, has been studied from...
Where We Want to Live
Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
**Winner, Phillip D. Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment**
**A Planetizen Top Planning Book for 2017**
After decades of sprawl, many American city and suburban residents struggle with issues related to traffic (and its accompanying challenges for our health...
City on the Verge
Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century
Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the country, gridlocked highways,...
Resilient Downtowns of Small Urban Communities
A New Approach to Revitalizing Small- and Medium-City Downtowns
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for...
Small Business and the City
The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a...
East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape
Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asias Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across...
Johannesburg
The Elusive Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic...
Common Ground in a Liquid City
Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a truly sustainable city?Common Ground...
Emergent Urbanism
Urban Planning & Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban...