City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book sheds light on Sir Peter Hall’s visions and contributions as recalled by experts. Specialists from the fields of transport and geography testify to Sir Peter Hall’s enormous impact on urban planning, urban geography, and transport geography, and The IGU Commission on Transport and Geography...
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
Beijing, Chicago, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth...
The Well-Tempered City
What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher
In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in...
Smart Economy in Smart Cities
International Collaborative Research: Ottawa, St.Louis, Stuttgart, Bologna, Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar, Lagos, New Delhi, Varanasi, Vijayawada, Kozhikode, Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development. The book surveys the state of the art of Smart City Economic Development through a literature survey. The book uses 13 in depth city research case studies in 10 countries such as the North America, Europe,...
Spatial Planning and Urban Development
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic framework which can adequately guide the interpretation and action in urban planning. The...
by Percy Johnson-Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Unique in the literature of planners, architects, and urban officials, Rebuilding Cities is a compendium and analysis of the achievements of city planning from the ""Ideal City"" of Palmanova in 1593 to the innovative achievements of planners and designers of the twentieth century....
Sustainable Food Systems
The Role of the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today’s global food crisis. By...
The New Century of the Metropolis
Urban Enclaves and Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's major cities in the twenty-first century.
Tom Angotti is fundamentally...
by Suzuki Hiroaki; Dastur Arish; Moffatt Sebastian; Yabuki Nanae; Maruyama Hinako
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The Eco2 Cities approach is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. At the same time...
The Emergence of Pacific Urban Villages
Urbanization Trends in the Pacific Islands
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed “urban villages” as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities. It investigates the meaning and conceptualization of myriad forms of urban villages by examining the evolution...
Alternative Urban Futures
Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop...
Changing Course in Urban Transport
An Illustrated Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This illustrated guide provides a rich collection of images of sustainable urban transport initiatives from around the world. It considers the transport problems evident in many cities in Asia, including high levels of energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, congestion, road casualties, urban...
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The collection of texts in this anthology traces the evolution of urban policy as an academic discipline and places the dynamics of this policy in its socio-political context. The approach is chronological.The first section is an outline of the evolution of urbanization and the transformation of the...