City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The aim of this book is to elucidate the role of forests as part of a landscape in the life of people. Most landscapes today are cultural landscapes that are influenced by human activity and that in turn have a profound effect on our understanding of and identification with a place. The book proposes...
Cities of Love
Roadmap for Sustaining Future Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Earth's environmental problems are far from being resolved. A large part of these are due to ever-growing cities. Despite more efforts made to improve cities, it has been difficult to change cities. One of the fundamental reasons is that people are not motivated to help change their cities. Apathy...
Realising the city
Urban ethnography in Manchester
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance.
Essential Methods for Planning Practitioners
Skills and Techniques for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape. The book is unique because it links different aspects of the planning/policy-making enterprise with the appropriate...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might...
Expansive Discourses
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider...
Encountering Urban Places
Visual and Material Performances in the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of places; to the way they are built, to their resisting materiality, to their image in people's minds, to...
Cities and Space
The Future Use of Urban Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living. Originally published in 1963
by Karolin Frank
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part...
Contradictions of Neoliberal Planning
Cities, Policies, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2011
This book argues that the concepts of ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘neoliberalisation,’ while in common use across the whole range of social sciences, have thus far been generally overlooked in planning theory and the analysis of planning practice. Offering insights from papers presented during a conference...
by William M. Rohe, Lauren B. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Neighborhood planning programs involve citizens in developing plans and self-help projects for their neighborhoods through local organizations. They also assist residents in reviewing projects developed by city agencies. Based on a survey of fifty-one neighborhood planning programs and in-depth case...
Towards Sustainable Cities
East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep...
Constructing Metropolitan Space
Actors, Policies and Processes of Rescaling in World Metropolises
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
There is little question today that processes of globalization affect national and local economies, governance processes, and conditions for economic competitiveness in the major urban regions of the world. In most liberal-democratic countries, these processes are occurring according to a rationale...
Spatial Cultures
Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research...