City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Sustainable Communities and Urban Housing
A Comparative European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since the start of the twenty-first century, urban communities have faced increasing challenges in housing affordability, with environmental issues causing additional concern. It is clear that changes to urban housing are needed to enhance the resilience of cities and improve the economic, social...
by Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation. Drawing from multiple perspectives, including architecture, urban design and urban planning,...
Applying leadership and management in planning
Theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Planning is central to economic, social and environmental life but its practice is frequently criticised by all who engage in it. Seen as too restrictive by those who promote development and too weak by those opposing it, planners who advise on proposals cannot sit on the fence. Is it the planning...
Unleashing Economic Growth
Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The book provides an overview of the economic, political, and social environment in Nepal and the challenges confronting the country in eliciting its economic growth potential. The book provides an insightful framework of an inclusive development strategy in the context of symbiotic relationships...
Detroit
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit*: A Biography* takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's...
The Fires
How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New Yo rk City--and Determined the Future of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
New York City, 1968. The RAND Corporation had presented an alluring proposal to a city on the brink of economic collapse: Using RAND's computer models, which had been successfully implemented in high-level military operations, the city could save millions of dollars by establishing more efficient...
by Ken Auletta
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological...
by Steve Mannheim
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
During the final months of his life, Walt Disney was consumed with the world-wide problems of cities. His development concept at the time of his death on December 15th, 1966 would be his team’s conceptual response to the ills of the inner cities and the sprawl of the megalopolis: the Experimental...
Palaces for the People
How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon Stewart
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book...
Rebel Cities
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers...
by Anthony M. Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.
We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in...
Children and their Urban Environment
Changing Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed to ensure that...
by Gordon G. Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book provides a general description and evaluation of the process of urbanization in China and the urgent challenges facing the Chinese government. Urban Transformation in China examines the changing pattern of China's urban population and the determinants of these changes, including an analysis...
Vertical
The City from Satellites to Bunkers
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet
Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that...