City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Yu Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
An authoritative treatment of urban computing, offering an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.
Urban computing brings powerful computational techniques to bear on such urban challenges as pollution, energy consumption, and traffic congestion....
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Richard Florida, one of the world's leading urbanists and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....
Cities Are Good for You
The Genius of the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our coffin or our ark.
Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities...
Who Cleans the Park?
Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
America’s public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars—both public and private—fund urban jewels like Manhattan’s Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment...
Urban Growth in Ethiopia, 1887–1974
From the Foundation of Finfinnee to the Demise of the First Imperial Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial Ethiopia made in its journey towards urbanization into the modern era, and undertakes a critical assessment of the economic, political, and social impediments that prevented the country from transitioning into a truly fully fledged modern...
Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing
Turin, up to the Current Neo-Liberal Approach and Social Innovation Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution. Through a unique case study on the city of Turin it explores social innovation and the relationship between the urban regeneration process and housing...
by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore...
by Rajib Shaw, Atta-ur-Rahman, Akhilesh Surjan
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing...
by Vinicius M Netto
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Bringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political and communications theory, this book deals with some key subjects in urban design: the multidimensional effects of the spatial form of cities, ways of appropriating urban space, and the different material...
Boston 1945 - 2015
The Decline and Rebirth of a Great World City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Against all oddes Boston revived itself to become one of the leading centers of the global economy. This book captures how rogue politicians, passionate neighborhood activists, new immigrants, and old time residents fought each other over issues large and small and in the process, preserved and...
by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at...
by Paulo Pinho, Cecília Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of...
Addiction, Modernity, and the City
A Users’ Guide to Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Examining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this book constitutes an interdisciplinary analysis of the intoxication indigenous to what has been termed "our narcotic modernity." The first section – Drug/Culture – demonstrates how the body of the addict and...
Design Review
Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
That the topic ofdesign review is somehow trou My biases are clearfrom the start: I am among blesome is probably one thing all readers can those who believe that, despite all signals to the contrary, the physical structure of our environ agree on. Beyond this, however, I suspect pros pects of...