City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Emerging Urban Spaces
A Planetary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects – namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative ‘Southern’ post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its...
Trends in Spatial Analysis and Modelling
Decision-Support and Planning Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book is a collection of original research papers that focus on recent developments in Spatial Analysis and Modelling with direct relevance to settlements and infrastructure. Topics include new types of data (such as simulation data), applications of methods to support decision-making, and investigations...
Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
From Words to Housing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help?
"Levy crafts stories of characters who sear the memory: Old Man Ray, the World War II veteran who resents the VA system and regards himself as the de facto...
Complexity and Planning
Systems, Assemblages and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Complexity, complex systems and complexity theories are becoming increasingly important within a variety disciplines. While these issues are less well known within the discipline of spatial planning, there has been a recent growing awareness and interest. As planners grapple with how to consider the...
Metropolitan Governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim
Borders, Challenges, Futures
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This edited collection examines seminal changes and major policy challenges in metropolitan governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim that are being faced by governments (national and sub-national) and their polities. The book builds upon the work of the largest stream at the Urban Affairs Association’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
"Remote Sensing of Urban and Suburban Areas" provides instructors with a text reference that has a logical and easy-to-follow flow of topics around which they can structure the syllabi of their urban remote sensing courses. Topics have been chosen to bridge the gap between remote sensing...
Urban Geology
Process-Oriented Concepts for Adaptive and Integrated Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Urban subsurface resources and particularly urban groundwater are vulnerable to environmental impacts, and their rational management is of major importance. In this book a multidisciplinary team of specialists and scientists presents innovative process-oriented approaches to the sustainable use of...
by Georgiana Varna
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the ’loss of publicness’ of contemporary urban public places. This book takes up the challenge to find an objective way to prove or disprove this phenomenon. By taking the reader through a systematic and multi-disciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?
The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Cities focuses on the ways migration and diversity have transformed cities, and how cities have responded to the challenges and opportunities offered....
by Gabrielle Immarigeon
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Une ville intelligente ne se résume pas à la seule présence de réseaux sans fil ou d’applications pour téléphones mobiles. Ce concept à la mode, qui n’a jamais été clairement défini, repose aussi sur un développement économique durable misant sur une saine gestion des ressources naturelles,...
by Michael Batty
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.
We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities...
Breakthroughs
Re-creating the American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Large or small, America's cities have had a difficult time generating admiration, respect, or understanding. They have served the nation as sources of commerce, finance, and the arts. They have taken millions of new Americans from their point of entry and helped newcomers elevate themselves economically...
Development Drowned and Reborn
The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Development Drowned and Reborn is a “Blues geography” of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane...
We're Still Here Ya Bastards
How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.
We're Still Here...