City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
A City So Grand
The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Once upon a time, "Boston Town" was an insulated New England township. But the community was destined for greatness. Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis to emerge as one of the world's great metropolises-one that achieved national and international prominence...
How Cities Work
Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the questions that Alex Marshall tackles in this...
Flight Path
A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing in her adopted Brooklyn,...
City-Regions in Prospect?
Exploring the Meeting Points between Place and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
How should the metropolis be governed? What is the appropriate scale to consider and organize local governance and communities? Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international body of scholarly work, City-Regions in Prospect? explores the city-region as both an evolving concept and as a growing...
by William Duncombe
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In an era of federal deficits and struggling municipalities, states have emerged as the most significant governmental actors. But state governments face the major challenge of fiscal planning in the midst of economic change. Roy Bahl and William Duncombe tackle this challenge head-on. Using New York...
Housing politics in the United Kingdom
Power, planning and protest
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
With rapid population growth, a long-term dearth in new housing construction, the emergence of ‘generation rent’ and rising homelessness, the issue of housing in the UK is considered complex, open-ended and intractable. Using insights from public choice theory, the new institutionalism and social...
by Dr David Garnett
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice. It acts as a source of reference for anyone studying or working in the housing field; from social policy studies to town planning.
The Community Economic Development Movement
Law, Business, and the New Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and...
Cool Cities
Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A pointed argument that cities—not nation-states—can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability. In this book,...
Urban-Rural Interactions
Towns as Focus Points in Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Modern Europe has rural roots. Even today, as much as 90 per cent of Europe (EU25) consists of rural areas in which half of the population lives. While different rural areas often face different challenges, the shift from agricultural production towards a multifunctional landscape and the increasing...
The Urban Climate Challenge
Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives*, The Urban Climate Challenge*provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields...
The Creative Community Builder's Handbook
How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2006
Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging...
Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets
Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are...
by Paul Jenkins, Harry Smith, Ya Ping Wang
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing.
Outlining and explaining core concepts from ‘informal settlements’ to...