City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
One Idea, Many Plans
An American City Design Concept in Independent India
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Planners tend to promote formal plans as the only game in town while diverse efforts of urban actors shape our cities. Tracking the development of American "neighborhood unit" concept in independent India’s planning practice and literature—from the national level policies to on-the-ground...
Public Interest, Private Property
Law and Planning Policy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
At a time when pollution, urban sprawl, and condo booms are leading municipal governments to adopt prescriptive laws and regulations, this book lays the groundwork for a more informed debate between those trying to preserve private property rights and those trying to assert public interests.
Rather...
by Lei Wang
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
As a legacy of the socialist state with central planning, Five-Year Planning (FYP) is very important in regulating socio-economic and spatial development even in post-reform China. This book tries to fill the research gap between examining the role of FYP and how spatial elements in the FYP mechanism...
Green Infrastructure Planning
Reintegrating Landscape in Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
What is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socioeconomic and ecological value does it provide? This useful guide provides an essential introduction to green infrastructure for planners, landscape architects, engineers, and environmentalists keen to understand how...
Vanishing New York
How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIR
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
by William H. Hudnut III
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Author Bill Hudnut draws on his past experience as mayor of Indianapolis to describe his vision for dealing with diversity, encouraging sustainable development, finding alternatives to sprawl, managing technological change, regional collaboration, improving government efficiency, and more.
The University and Urban Revival
Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards....
Megacities
Our Global Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more than five million inhabitants. With the irresistible economic attractions of urban centers, particularly in developing countries, making the influx...
Cities of Farmers
Urban Agricultural Practices and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Full-scale food production in cities: is it an impossibility? Or is it a panacea for all that ails urban communities? Today, it’s a reality, but many people still don’t know how much of an impact this emerging food system is having on cities and their residents. This book showcases the work of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning brings together contributions from leaders in landscape, transportation, and urban planning. They present case studies - from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa - that ground the exploration of ideas in the realities of sustainable urban...
Transport Matters
Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody.
It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and...
Seminal Studies in Regional and Urban Economics
Contributions from an Impressive Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
The book spans a scientific research program elegantly developed by Roberto Camagni, an eminent regional scientist, who has offered ground-breaking ideas in regional and urban economics throughout his academic career. In addition to bringing together a selection of Professor Camagni’s most influential...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago’s South Side, Barack Obama became America’s most “urban” president since Teddy Roosevelt. But what has been his record in dealing with the issues most impacting our metropolitan areas today? Looking...
Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro
The Pavao-Pavaozinho and Cantagalo Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
One important change in the Brazilian policies is the Pacification. In recent years the government has invested in creating safer and more livable favelas. This generally starts with creating a UPP, a police post at a central location, from where the safety is maintained. Once this has been established...