City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Potsdamer Platz
The Reshaping of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks...
by Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a noted...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Rural England plays a significant role in the economy of the United Kingdom, but an even larger social and cultural role. And it is unique among OECD regions, in that it is geographically compact, with rural inhabitants generally no more than a half hour’s drive from an urban area. There is thus...
George Washington's Washington
Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington’s original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac. In 1791 Washington’s ideas found form in architect Peter Charles L’Enfant’s plans for the city. Yet the unprecedented scope...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense...
Planning for Climate Change
Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened its environmental dimension and has become a new rationale for coordinating actions and integrating different policy priorities.
This book sets out the economic, social and environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such as geography, urban planning,...
Data Science for Transport
A Self-Study Guide with Computer Exercises
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
The quantity, diversity and availability of transport data is increasing rapidly, requiring new skills in the management and interrogation of data and databases. Recent years have seen a new wave of 'big data', 'Data Science', and 'smart cities' changing the world, with the Harvard Business Review...
by Hok-Lin Leung
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions. It seeks to develop a set of coherent planning principles by drawing out useful and generally applicable...
Deconstructing Placemaking
Needs, Opportunities, and Assets
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and restrictive covenants. "Place matters" has become a mantra in many disciplines - architecture, urban planning and...
Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure
Making and Using the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before...
Urban Regeneration in the UK
Boom, Bust and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
"A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration in the UK since the 2008 financial crisis is comprehensive, and ensures that this latest edition will remain a key reference work for students and...
Urban Informalities
Reflections on the Formal and Informal
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism. This collection critically interrogates...
Urbicide
The Politics of Urban Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The term ‘urbicide’ became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. Coined by writers on urban development in America, urbicide captures the sense that the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings...