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by Steven Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. For the first time in human history, the majority of the people on the planet live in urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our...
Water and the City
Risk, Resilience and Planning for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants. The relationship is complex however; we need both continual availability and protection from its potential impacts. Over recent decades...
World Heritage, Urban Design and Tourism
Three Cities in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key relationships between heritage conservation, city space design,...
by Nabeel Hamdi
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of practical...
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and...
The Space-Economic Transformation of the City
Towards Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
City planning is the key-stone to tackle the question of climate-change and to involve adequate action.
In Part I of this book, the theory of space-economy is presented. Opening up a new conceptual and operational toolbox for policy makers, practitioners and scholars, the theory of space-economy...
Landscape Planning and Rural Development
Key Issues and Options Towards Integration
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
This book aims to contribute to the current debate on how to integrate rural development policies and landscape planning in rural areas. It highlights the key issues at stake and the possibilities for synergies between landscape planning and policies in light of European development policies, particularly...
Stronger Than Steel
Forging a Rust Belt Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
Stronger than Steel is the story of a company town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that used alternative economic development strategies, including arts, tourism, and a casino to propel its way out of devastation of deindustrialization. Bethlehem’s strategies have been rewarded with dramatic results.
In...
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...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
As an important step in developing a methodology for environmentally sustainable economic development, the study explores the concept of environmental livability for the urban centers of the People's Republic of China. The study produced the environmental livability index, a practical tool that can...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available. The numerous habitats represented in this book ranges from rows of trees in wooded alleys, to wastelands and remnants of natural habitats encapsulated in the...
Online Research Methods in Urban and Planning Studies
Design and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Researchers are retiring conventional paper-and-pencil research methods and embracing an expanded array of online methodological options. In urban and planning studies, new digital tools, data accessibility, and online applications are changing how urban planning research is conducted. Online Research...
Growing Urban Economies
Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in...
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...