City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Unsettling the City
Urban Land and the Politics of Property
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city.
Public Space and Relational Perspectives
New Challenges for Architecture and Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Traditional approaches to understand space tend to view public space mainly as a shell or container, focussing on its morphological structures and functional uses. That way, its ever-changing meanings, contested or challenged uses have been largely ignored, as well as the contextual and on-going...
GDF - Green Density Factor and GCF - Green Cooling Factor
A specific calculation method to integrate green roofs, green facades and their evapotranspiration cooling rate into the general planning procedure of architects and planners
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The GDF and GCF are two factors invented and designed by German Architect and Developer Florian Betzler. They demonstrate the possibilities to cool the microclimates of hot cities and let estates function as cooling units within an overheated climate for any city, starting from a small scale and ending...
Ecology of Fear
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2020
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, and a plague of bees. In this controversial tour de force of scholarship, unsparing vision, and...
Environmental Planning in the Netherlands: Too Good to be True
From Command-and-Control Planning to Shared Governance
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Netherlands is one of the most prominent and innovative countries in the field of environmental planning. Over the past decade, its government has introduced such ground-breaking schemes as Integrated Environmental Zoning, the City-Environment Project, the Bubble Concept and Policy Concepts and...
by Mark Deakin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Illustrated with empirical case studies from Europe, Africa and North America, this book provides an overview of the wide range of innovative methodologies, models and instruments currently being applied in the formation of and implementation of land management strategies. It examines techniques such...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The urban crisis of the 1960s revived a dormant social activism whose protagonists placed their hoped for radical change and political effectiveness in community action. Ironically, the insurgents chose the local community as their terrain for a political battle that in reality involved a few strictly...
Abulecentrism
Rapid Development of Society Catalyzed at the Local Community Level
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The book describes a development concept called abulecentrism. The Yoruba word abule (pronounced: a-boo-lay) literarily means “the village”. abulecentrism seeks to achieve rapid and sustainable development of a given society by the strategic execution of projects and the provision of critical...
Moving from Risk to Resilience
Sustainable Urban Development in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Pacific is an increasingly urbanized region, with many countries struggling to cope with demands for basic urban services. This publication recommends risk reduction and adaptation measures to promote more sustainable urban development.
Labor Forces and Landscape Management
Japanese Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts. Many matured countries are now confronting an aging society and a shrinking population. Land degradation in those countries is basically caused by a lack of local labor forces. It is very important, therefore,...
by Yang Xiao
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book is devoted to fill the ‘urban economics niche’ and conceptualize a framework for valuing the urban configuration via local housing market. Advanced network analysis techniques are employed to capture the centrality features hindered in street layout. The author explores the several effects...
Smart Rules for Smart Cities
Managing Efficient Cities in Euro-Mediterranean Countries
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
This book explores the new rules and codes that are required in order to foster the implementation of smart city technologies with a view to meeting the environmental and energy challenges posed by dynamic contemporary cities with increasing populations. In particular, it proposes a methodological...
by Emmanuel V. Marmaras
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects....
Saving Our Cities
A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the...