City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative...
Urban Politics
Critical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
"Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world... Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction"
- Setha M. Low, The Graduate Center of the City University of...
MetroGreen
Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
In metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city residents have taken unprecedented measures to protect their open land, and a growing movemseeks not only to preserve these lands but to link them in green...
Homelessness in New York City
Policymaking from Koch to de Blasio
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Can American cities respond effectively to pressing social problems? Or, as many scholars have claimed, are urban politics so mired in stasis, gridlock and bureaucratic paralysis that dramatic policy change is impossible? Homelessness in New York City tells the remarkable story of how America’s...
by Ann Marie F. Murnaghan, Laura J. Shillington
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising...
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3
The Toolkit for Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to...
The Housing Question
Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial...
by Yoichi Kawamoto
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research program at the cSUR was designed...
ReNew Town
Adaptive Urbanism and the Low Carbon Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes.
To date, much of the discourse on the design...
The Governance of Place
Space and Planning Processes
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Views on spatial planning and its role have changed significantly over the past few years and the issues it deals with have become increasingly more complex. There are more players involved in the development of a particular area or place than ever before and there is also a greater interest in urban...
Governing Cities Through Regions
Canadian and European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Cities now house half the world's population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews...
Governing Urban Sustainability
Comparing Cities in the USA and Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainability-minded groups-may be critical to building momentum for sustainability. The book presents in-depth case studies of six cities in the USA and Germany:...
Some Great Idea
Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea...