City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Quintessential Cities, Accountable to the Future
Sustainability, Innovation and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This book can be seen as the third part of an unofficial trilogy on Sustainable Cities of the Future with the author's previous books 'Sustainable Development, Energy and the City' and 'Sustainable Cities for the third millennium: The Odyssey of urban excellence', both prefaced by Prof. Sir...
Urban Villager
Life in an Indian Satellite Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Urban Villager is a superbly etched and finely detailed representation of the life of an ‘urban villager’ in a modern satellite town of India. It describes how Delhi, as a city, is growing radially, stretching its way into the rural fringes of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh that border the city to...
by Chang-Hee Christine Bae
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Urban sprawl is one of the key planning issues today. This book compares Western Europe and the USA, focusing on anti-sprawl policies. The USA is known for its settlement patterns that emphasize low-density suburban development and extreme automobile dependence, whereas European countries emphasize...
Montreal, City of Water
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Built within an exceptional watershed, Montreal is intertwined with the waterways that ring its island and flow beneath it in underground networks. Montreal, City of Water focuses on water not only as a physical element – both shaping and shaped by urban development – but also as a sociocultural...
Selling EthniCity
Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of scholars, this book explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. It argues that cultural, political and economic elites make use of cultural and ethnic elements in city planning and architecture in...
Unorthodox Ways to Think the City
Representations, Constructions, Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses architecture and architectural theory, but also art...
Ventilating Cities
Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate...
Planning World Cities
Globalization and Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning...
Rethinking Urban Parks
Public Space and Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening...
System of Open Spaces
Concrete Project Strategies for Urban Territories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
In the current panorama of urban growth and planning in many urban territories of western societies, open spaces are residual spaces of urban occupation or are reserved for eventual occupation. Open spaces have been viewed in this manner in the earlier stages of the compact city and especially now,...
by Vincent Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Conditions for travel have changed and are still changing the world – a world experiencing what John Urry calls the ‘mobility turn’. Since World War Two we have been moving faster and going further – a fact that has profoundly changed our way of experiencing both the world and ourselves. The...
The State of Pacific Towns and Cities
Urbanization in ADB's Pacific Developing Member Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This report investigates urbanization trends across the 14 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. It examines the history of Pacific urbanization, current state of infrastructure and service provision within urban areas, and systems of urban governance. It presents key...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The social and economic systems of any country are influenced by a range of factors. As the global population grows in developing nations, it has become essential to examine the effects of urbanization. Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions is a pivotal reference...
Urbanism Without Effort
Reconnecting with First Principles of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
How do you create inviting and authentic urban environments where people feel at home? Countless community engagement workshops, studies by consulting firms, and downtown revitalization campaigns have attempted to answer this age-old question. In Urbanism Without Effort, Chuck Wolfe argues that "unplanned”...