City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Housing and Economic Development in Indian Country
Challenge and Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Among America's most complex planning environments, Indian country continues to face innumerable challenges to its community development. These factors are historic in nature, creating an assemblage of complex problems in reservation land management, policy implementation, and the ability of tribes...
The Future of Airbnb and the Sharing Economy
The Collaborative Consumption of our Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
This book deconstructs the ‘sharing’ marketing narratives surrounding Airbnb and similar platforms. It provides a conceptual analysis of the ‘sharing economy’ and accommodation sector and furthers the ongoing discussion surrounding Airbnb and the social sustainability of city tourism. The...
by Walter Firey
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
From the beginnings of human association, social planning has been an accepted method for effecting improvements in community, regional, and national life. In Law and Economy in Planning, Walter Firey has made a start in the development of an intellectual framework that will give meaning to the craft...
The People's Property?
Power, Politics, and the Public.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The People’s Property? is the first book-length scholarly examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and peopling of public space are central to the development of publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks the questions: Why does it matter who owns public...
On This Patch of Grass
City Parks on Occupied Land
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
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Parks are importantly fertile places to talk about land. Whether its big national parks, provincial campgrounds, isolated conservation areas, destination parks, or humble urban patches of grass, we tend to speak of parks as unqualified...
by Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
In 2016, an estimated 54.5 per cent of the world’s population lived in urban settlements. By 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 per cent of people globally and one in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants. Understanding the key trends in urbanization...
Sustainable Urbanism in Digital Transitions
From Low Carbon to Smart Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions. From its infancy at the scale of individual buildings, a focus on ‘green’ agenda, energy, and resource efficiency has fostered research and policies for low carbon cities, eco-cities, and increasingly...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
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Sharing Cities
A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.
The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services,...
Connections
Exploring Contemporary Planning Theory and Practice with Patsy Healey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades. In this astonishing transition, the thinking and scholarship of Patsy Healey appears as a constantly recurring influence and inspiration around the globe....
Global Cities
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?
From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century,...
Land Use and Spatial Planning
Enabling Sustainable Management of Land Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This bookreconciles competing and sometimes contradictory forms of land use, while also promoting sustainable land use options. It highlights land use planning, spatial planning, territorial (or regional) planning, and ecosystem-based or environmental land use planning as tools that strengthen land...
America’s Most Sustainable Cities and Regions
Surviving the 21st Century Megatrends
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2016
This book takes you on a unique journey through American history, taking time to consider the forces that shaped the development of various cities and regions, and arrives at an unexpected conclusion regarding sustainability. From the American Dream to globalization to the digital and information...
The Poisoned City
Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.
Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes....