City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Learning from Megadisasters
Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
While not all natural disasters can be avoided, their impact on a population can be mitigated through effective planning and preparedness. These are the lessons to be learned from Japan's own megadisaster: the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the fi rst disaster ever recorded that included an earthquake,...
by Edwards, Claire, Imrie
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
With an ever increasing proportion of the world's population inhabiting urban environments, the management of cities remains a perennial challenge for governments and policymakers. This concise, but wide-ranging text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been defined...
In Pursuit of Sustainable Development
New governance practices at the sub-national level in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2008
The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development.
Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies...
New Cities and Community Extensions in Egypt and the Middle East
Visions and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book seeks to push forward the boundaries of current practices and knowledge to embrace innovative solutions, novel approaches, and grounded technologies within realistic comprehension of economic risks and environmental implications. It investigates different scales and situations, various urban...
Social Housing in the Middle East
Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
As oil-rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing—both...
Sequel to Suburbia
Glimpses of America's Post-Suburban Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.
In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The expansive rings of outer suburbs that formed around major cities were decentralized...
State-led Privatisation and the Demise of the Democratic State
Welfare Reform and Localism in an Era of Regulatory Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
For decades now we have been told that we are living through a governance revolution. Gone are the days when government agencies and bureaucrats told us what to do and how to do it. We are no longer clients of the state but empowered citizens who are able to take greater control over our own lives...
House by House, Block by Block
The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how...
by Paul Barter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Most Asian cities are facing an acute parking crisis as a result of rapid urbanization and motorization, and high urban densities. Parking policy is an important component of a holistic approach to sustainable urban transport across the region. The report provides an international comparative perspective...
The Cities on the Hill
How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and South,...
Mobility Justice
The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis...
Countering Development
Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas within...
Leading the inclusive city
Place-based innovation for a bounded planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future in accordance with progressive...
Divided Cities
Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This report provides an assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the report focus on a subset of OECD countries and non-member economies, and provide new insights on cross-cutting issues for city neighbourhooods,...