City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The connections between economics, planning, and the environment are receiv ing increased attention among scholars and policy makers in many countries. The common denominator among these three variables is the earth's life support sys tems, the ecosystems on which the world depends. When we describe...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The Pan Yellow Sea Region (PYSR) covers the coasts of Northern China (Bohai Rim), western and southern Korea and south-western Japan (Kyushu). It has been one of the fastest growing economic zones in East Asia since China’s opening in the early 1990s, thanks to the region’s extensive manufacturing...
The Spirit of Cities
Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2013
Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or...
Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Cities
Economy, Environment and Community in Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city. Sustainability, as a concept guiding public action, encourages city officials to integrate policy and programs addressing the economic, environmental,...
Rights Based Approach and Housing for the urban poor
An analysis of the Slum Rehabilitation Schemes in Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: A, , language: English, abstract: The present study seeks to understand and analyze the Slum Rehabilitation Schemes (hereafter SRS), designed specifically in the context of Mumbai, using a rights based...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book investigates how housing policy changes in Asia since the late 1990s have impacted on housing affordability, security, livability, culture and social development.
Using case study examples from countries/cities including China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Bangladesh,...
Foundations of the Planning Enterprise
Critical Essays in Planning Theory: Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Planning Theory has a history of common debates about ideas and practices and is rooted in a critical concern for the 'improvement' of human and environmental well-being, particularly as pursued through interventions which seek to shape environmental conditions and place qualities.. The first volume...
The Radical and Socialist Tradition in British Planning
From Puritan colonies to garden cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Focusing on the key period between the late 18th century and 1914, this book provides the first comprehensive narrative account of radical and socialist texts and organised movements for reform to land planning and housing policies in Britain. Beginning with the early colonial settlements in the puritan...
Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy
Seaports, Airports, Brainports
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand. To this end, the book brings together chapters analysing...
Remaking London
Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Contemporary urban regeneration seeks to encourage diverse, creative new neighbourhoods that are rich in economic potential. Yet the end result frequently displaces precisely those qualities, activities and communities it claims to engender. Are people best served by a preoccupation with regeneration...
Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation
Manual for Practice and Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems, in the key steps towards their...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2009
This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models.
Based...