City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Refinery Town
Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
The People vs. Big Oil—how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community
Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class...
Civic Symbol
Creating Toronto's New City Hall, 1952-1966
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When Toronto’s New City Hall opened in 1965, it was an iconic modernist symbol for what was still a sedate and conservative city. Its futuristic design by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, composed of two curved towers flanking a clam-shaped council chamber, remains as strange and distinctive today...
From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing
Interaction of Communities, Residents and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena. Adopting this viewpoint, From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing maps the current terrain of political...
by B W Namano
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language: English, abstract: This essay discusses the topic of planning sustainable...
Deconstructing the High Line
Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property...
The Voluntary City
Choice, Community, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Assembling a rich history and analysis of large-scale, private and voluntary, community-based provision of social services, urban infrastructure, and community governance, this book provides suggestions on how to restore the vitality of city life. Historically, the city was considered a center of...
Desert Regions
Population, Migration and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Despite the common understanding of the importance of desert development in the contemporary world, there are relatively few books published to date on this sub ject. The books and collective volumes published in this field deal primarily with environmental and physical aspects of desert development...
Capital Spaces
The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space through commerical developments like...
by A.E.J. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops...
by AA. VV.
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
This book gives accounts of different strategies showing an impact on urban safety and security in European and non-European cities – being it the main goal or only a “secondary effect” of the observed urban policies, and being their result effective or only perceived. The essays describe the...
The Global City and the Holy City
Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces...
There Goes the Hood
Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: how does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out, Freeman does what no scholar before him has done. He interviews the indigenous residents of two predominantly black neighborhoods...
Suburb
Planning Politics and the Public Interest
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but nothing happens by itself. In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington,...
Creative Community Planning
Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Creative Community Planning provides clear access to emerging innovations in artistic, narrative, embodied and technological methods. Reflecting on the wide continuum of participatory practice, the authors explore the frontiers of community engagement within a fresh sustainability framework. Leading...