City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require...
Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
A View from North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course. It reveals how and why squatting...
Spatial planning and resilience following disasters
International and comparative perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
Population shifts and an increase in the number of natural (and man-made) disasters are having a profound effect on urban and rural habitats globally. This book brings together for the first time the experiences and knowledge of international contributors from academia, research, policy and practice...
Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space
Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga...
Infrastructure delivery planning
An effective practice approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This important text book is the first to be written about infrastructure planning in Britain. Written by an experienced author, the book reviews the rapid rise in the use of infrastructure delivery planning at national and neighbourhood level. The key components of infrastructure delivery are set...
Decentralisation and Regional Development
Experiences and Lessons from Four Continents over Three Decades
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
This book analyzes decentralisation, regional development paths and success factors in different governance sectors in Ghana, the Philippines, Tanzania and Chile, and discuss overarching aspects of relevance. Decentralisation, which refers to the delegation of administrative responsibilities, political...
Community action and planning
Contexts, drivers and outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise...
'One Planet' Cities
Sustaining Humanity within Planetary Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system.
With four out of five people predicted to be urban dwellers by 2080, ‘One Planet’ Cities proposes a pathway...
by Peter Brimblecombe
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Pollution damages materials, but it has changed dramatically in the past century, with a reduction in the concentration of corrosive primary pollutants in urban atmospheres. At the same time, architectural styles and types of materials have changed, as we have moved to more organically rich, photochemically...
Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design
Physical Principles, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort....
Constructing the Colonized Land
Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan...
by Robert Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong
How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can...
In Defense of Housing
The Politics of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?
Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Pro fit has become more important...