City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Fear, Space and Urban Planning
A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual...
by Lucy Bullivant
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Winner of the Urban Design Group's 2014 Book of the Year Award!
In the past, spatial masterplans for cities have been fixed blueprints realized as physical form through conventional top down processes. These frequently disregarded existing social and cultural structures, while the old modernist...
by John McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Approaches to urban regeneration have changed dramatically throughout Europe and the USA over recent decades, drawing on notions of public-private partnership, growth coalitions and local spatial alliances. In this engaging book John McCarthy provides critical consideration of such theories in terms...
Sites of Governance
Multilevel Governance and Policy Making in Canada's Big Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Policies forged by all levels of government affect the lives of urban residents. Contributors to this volume explore how intergovernmental relations shape urban policies and how various social forces are involved in - or excluded from - the policy process. Focusing on diverse policy fields including...
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs
Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Jane Jacobs's famous book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) has challenged the discipline of urban planning and led to a paradigm shift. Controversial in the 1960s, most of her ideas became generally accepted within a decade or so after publication, not only in North America but worldwide,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil War’s devastation to the 1996 Olympic boom to the current housing crisis, the city’s history is a cycle of rise and fall, ruin and resurgence.
In Planning Atlanta, two dozen planning practitioners and...
Enabling Inclusive Cities
Tool Kit for Inclusive Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This tool kit presents an integrated approach to inclusive urban development and was prepared for ADB staff and their partners to engage in inclusive urban development programming and implementation as an integral component of ADB’s lending programs. It presents methods to gather required information...
Infrastructure Planning and Finance
A Smart and Sustainable Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This Review of Venice, Italy, offers a comprehensive assessment of the city-region’s economy and the extent to which its land use, labour market and environmental policies embrace a metropolitan vision. A new understanding of the provinces of Padua, Treviso and Venice as an interconnected city-region...
Seismic City
An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements — earthquake, fires, and recovery — profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco’s perceived permanence.
The crisis...
E-Planning and Collaboration
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. E-planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards urban environments. E-Planning and Collaboration: Concepts, Methodologies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience...
by Luigi La Riccia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning? What actions / rules are now achievable for the protection, planning and management of local-scale landscapes? The overall reflections gathered...