City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into...
Australian Environmental Planning
Challenges and Future Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Winner of the Planning Institute of Australia's 2015 Cutting Edge Research and Teaching Award!
Australians from all walks of life have begun to realise the nation’s cities cannot sustain profligate growth indefinitely. Dwindling water supplies, failing food bowls, increased energy costs,...
Introducing Urban Design
Interventions and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed. The dynamic new subject and profession of urban design straddles the fields of town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning. This...
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...
Fundamentals of Plan Making
Methods and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Urban and regional planning programs aspire to prepare practitioners to write and implement plans, primarily at the local level of government. These programs are very much "professional" in their aspirations, as opposed to research oriented. Yet, academic planning programs often place greater emphasis...
New Urbanism
Life, Work, and Space in the New Downtown
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric in the making. Bringing together a range of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are...
Inside Smart Cities
Place, Politics and Urban Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions...
Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning
Case Study of an Australian Outer Sydney Growth Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed...
Walkable City
How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.
The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American...
City Bound
How States Stifle Urban Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies,...
Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance
Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The relationship between citizens and city governments is gradually transforming due to the utilization of advanced information and communication technologies in order to inform, consult, and engage citizens. Citizen E-Participation in Urban Governance: Crowdsourcing and Collaborative Creativity explores...
Global Cities
Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.
Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial,...
Cities of Knowledge
Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital? How can a city or region become a high-tech powerhouse like Silicon Valley? For over half a century, through boom times and bust, business leaders and politicians have tried to become "the next Silicon Valley," but few...