City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth. An important element of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community, the GMS is expected to catch up with the rest of Asia by...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
'Trading zone' is a concept introduced by Peter Galison in his social scientific research on how scientists representing different sub-cultures and paradigms have been able to coordinate their interaction locally. In this book, Italian and Finnish planning researchers extend the use of the concept...
by Josef W. Konvitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A...
China’s New Urbanization
Developmental Paths, Blueprints and Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book answers the call for New Urbanization, and proposes a “5+9+6” national spatial layout plan for the urbanization of the 770 major cities in China. This macro pattern is based on a few major metropolises at the center, and other cities supporting and benefitting from these metropolises...
by Gert-Jan Hospers, Nol Reverda
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well as a theoretical perspective....
On the Waterfront
The Unlikely Story of How a Small Public Agency with Few Powers and Precarious Funding Managed To Change a City
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For more than 220 years since the early days of York, in fact the city's leaders and citizens have dreamed, planned and argued about the waterfront. For a long time, the results weren't pretty: from industrial sprawl and the Gardiner Expressway to the more recent "condo curtain," each generation seemed...
Cities in the Third Wave
The Technological Transformation of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. Arguing that technology has both created and recast cities throughout history, Leonard I. Ruchelman explores how cities are being affected by new technology and how they will evolve in the future....
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes
Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood...
Planning Support Methods
Urban and Regional Analysis and Projection
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Planning Support Methods offers the only practical guide to the key methods of urban and regional planning. The authors apply and critically assess the most important methods for demographic and economic analysis and projection and land suitability analysis, providing an essential resource for practicing...
by Thomas Heberer, Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months...
Reclaiming Backlanes
Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?
Reclaiming...
by Henry J. Pratt, Ronald Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement and its secular counterpart, the Progressive movement, set the stage for powerful church and city governance connections. What followed during the next 100 years was the emergence of religious bodies as an important instrument for influencing City Hall...
Planning Theory
A Search for Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Theory and practice in city planning have never been known for their compatibility. The planner, dealing with stresses such as the personalities at work in a board meeting and coping with the realities of fund raising, political realities, and the like, can find little guidance in the theory of the...
Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes
In Search of a Decision Support System
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants. It presents a decision-support system to orient public administrations in identifying development scenarios for sustainable urban and territorial transformations....