City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Analyzing Urban Poverty
GIS for the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In developing countries, squatter developments that house more than one-third of the urban population are without infrastructure and built from materials at hand. Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World demonstrates how geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to improve quality...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability. This book addresses the relationship between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. Three sections present empirical research and commentaries from leading academics...
The Next American City
The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From four-term Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, a hopeful and illuminating look at the dynamic and inventive urban centers that will lead the United States in coming years.
Oklahoma City. Indianapolis. Charleston. Des Moines. What do these cities have in common? They are cities of modest size...
Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)
An Operational Research Approach to the Processes of Public Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their capacity...
Shrinking Cities in China
The Other Facet of Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have begun attracting increasing...
by Lewis Mumford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.
Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The...
Naked City
The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity,...
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and the lives that are altered in the process.
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the...
Governing Compact Cities
How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence...
How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders...
Building and Dwelling
Ethics for the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward
Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa,...
Radical Cities
Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?
In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services...