City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Megacity Slums
Social Exclusion, Space and Urban Policies in Brazil and India
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues. In Delhi, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the challenges they pose have spurred public actors into...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles...
Ranking the Liveability of the World's Major Cities
The Global Liveable Cities Index (GLCI)
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural...
Shape of the Suburbs
Understanding Toronto's Sprawl
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2009
It is now impossible to understand major North American cities without considering the seemingly never-ending and ever-growing sprawl of their surrounding suburbs. In The Shape of the Suburbs, activist, urban affairs columnist, and former Toronto mayor John Sewell examines the relationship between...
by Sonia Chand Sandhu, Ramola Naik Singru, John Bachmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This publication is a result of a 2-year innovative, exploratory, and reflective study of cities as unique urban spaces that support life, work, and play. It responds to major issues that affect the quality of life of urban residents. This publication offers practical ways on how urban managers, urban...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Urban Operational Plan (UOP) 2012-2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports ADB developing member countries (DMCs) in expanding their urban economies, improving environmental sustainability, and making pro-poor investments through a 3E approach (Economy, Environment, and Equity). This...
Gearing Up for Competitiveness
The Role of Planning, Governance, and Finance in Small and Medium-sized Cities in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book focuses on local government’s role in increasing city competitiveness through planning, governance, and finance, particularly in small to medium-sized cities in South Asia. Existing studies on city competitiveness tend to focus on megacities, and yet smaller cities house an increasingly...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The knowledge economy has become an important part of contemporary development for cities in a time of globalization and expansion. Examining theories of knowledge transfer and urban advancement allows for better adaptation in a changing global society. Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle...
Community-Based Urban Development
Evolving Urban Paradigms in Singapore and Seoul
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life. Singapore and Seoul are known for their rapid economic...
Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning
Beyond the Flatlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up...
Building Community, Chinatown Style
A Half Century of Leadership in San Francisco Chinatown
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Gordon Chin, nationally recognized community leader and activist, tells the compelling story of the rise of civic and political power in San Francisco's Chinatown from the 1960s through the election of a Chinese American mayor in 2011. This grass roots community leadership has made San Francisco Chinatown...
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Critiques of traditional urban planning are numerous. The debate about direction within the profession and why urban planning seems to be in a state of despair continues. However, and as Milan J. Dluhy and Kan Chen note, the more critical issue is the future direction of planning, particularly interdisciplinary...
by Miguel Torres
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity,...