City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Qianqing Mai, Maria Francesch-Huidobro
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In the last thirty years, China has experienced rapid economic development and urbanisation which has resulted in high levels of environmental degradation and has put considerable pressure on the country’s infrastructure and natural resources. As China commits to considerably lower the carbon intensity...
Retrofitting Sprawl
Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing...
Comparative Metropolitan Policy
Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain...
Game
The Segmentation, Implementation and Protection of Land Rights in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
This book provides a thorough analysis of the evolution of land property rights and transfer mechanism during the transition of the Chinese society from being a traditional self-sustaining agricultural society to a modern commercialized agricultural society. It provides empirical proof for complicated...
Coastal Towns in Transition
Local Perceptions of Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2009
Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and the "sea change phenomenon" – the migration of affluent urbanites to small coastal towns seeking beautiful, natural surroundings. In response to these changes...
Transforming Asian Cities
Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical...
by Warren Magnusson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Despite decades of talk about globalization, democracy still depends on local self-government. In Local Self-Government and the Right to the City, Warren Magnusson argues that it is the principle behind claims to personal autonomy, community control, and national self-determination, and holds the promise...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
With more than 700 million residents living in rural areas, China is still a predominantly rural country. But despite substantial improvements in standards of living, the Chinese countryside is largely lagging behind. This report analyses the key socio-economic forces at work in China's rural areas...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This review of regional policy in Sweden finds that Sweden has recently renewed focus on promoting development opportunities in all regions and has introduced a gradual regionalisation process with a strong bottom-up approach. Yet challenges remain, particularly concerning knowledge diffusion and...
Public Problems - Private Solutions?
Globalizing Cities in the South
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Cities and city regions are undergoing rapid transformation. They are prime locations of innovation, while at the same time facing growing problems of spatial fragmentation and social exclusion. By addressing these problems, cities become forerunners for new patterns of governance, which include increasingly...
Small Town China
Rural Labour and Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
While much has been written about rural migrant workers’ experiences in the big cities, population movements into China’s vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected. This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers experiences in a small town in a north...
Green Building Transitions
Regional Trajectories of Innovation in Europe, Canada and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This volume analyzes sustainability-related innovations in the building sector and discusses how regional contexts articulate transition trajectories toward green building. It presents ‘biographies’ of drivers and processes of green building innovation in four case studies: Brisbane (AUS), Freiburg...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
What can public art do for a community? How can city governments and others that create public art develop projects that build community and engage civil society?
Creating Civic Engagement in Urban Public Art addresses these and other critical questions. It demonstrates how public art can build...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This book addresses the complexity of urbanization, impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile, with a special focus on the most pressing issues of natural hazards, water and energy supply. The book exemplifies a conceptual approach for...