City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Alan Ehrenhalt
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.
Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted...
by Mark w. Frankena, David T. Scheffman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This book describes and analyses the provincial government's role in municipal and regional planning. The conversion of farmland to urban and other uses is discussed, as are the issues raised by the reports of the Ontario Planning Act Review Committee and the Federal/Provincial Task Force on the Supply...
English Regional Planning 2000-2010
Lessons for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning during these years, whereby large steps forward were made, but where policy...
Straphanger
Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution
"I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The perception of public transportation in America...
Walking Home
The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.
From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings...
Maturing Megacities
The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures...
Carving Out the Commons
Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations...
by Dominique Lorrain
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Megacities are a new phenomenon in history. The fact that many of them are in emerging countries deepens the challenges of governing these spaces. Can these vast, complex entities, rife with inequalities and divisions, be governed effectively? For researchers, the answer has often been no. The approach...
Integrated Productivity in Urban Africa
Introducing the Neo-Mercantile Planning Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa. It proposes a new approach that rethinks neo-liberalism as the meta-theory of planning in Africa, and pioneers an original school of thought that presents a general theory of planning...
Engaging with Cities of the Future
A Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Inefficient and uncompetitive cities inhibit economic growth and inclusive development. Integrated urban planning will help stem the decline of Asian and Pacific cities, spelling the difference between a future of gloom or glory in the region. The technical assistance Establishing the Future Cities...
Urban Design in the Arab World
Reconceptualizing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national identities, overwhelming wealth and poverty, religious diversity, and recently the Arab uprisings, a bottom-up revolution shaking the foundations of pre-established, long-standing hierarchies. It is also a region...
Political Barriers to Housebuilding in Britain
A Critical Case Study of Protectionism and its Industrial-Commercial Effects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Political Barriers to Housebuilding in Britain: A Critical Case Study of Protectionism and its Industrial-Commercial Effects
For decades, political barriers have hampered housebuilding in Britain. Governments have blocked urban expansion, stymied the introduction of new low-cost production...
by Nan Ellin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture - and architecture...
by Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban...