City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Summer in the City
John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society Program. Providing an even-handed reassessment of Lindsay’s legacy and the policies of the period, the essays...
Preventing the Next Mortgage Crisis
The Meltdown, the Federal Response, and the Future of Housing in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The great U.S. mortgage crisis was a transformative event that will reverberate for decades across families, neighborhoods, and cities. After years of research on various aspects of the crisis, Dan Immergluck examines what went wrong, identifying the factors that created the fragile housing finance...
Urban Policy Reconsidered
Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2003
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Roseland, Mark
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, economically viable places. This comprehensive update of the classic text presents a leading-edge overview of...
by Susan Parnell, Doctor Edgar Pieterse
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The facts of Africa’s rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural...
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers...
Motherhood, Poverty, and the WIC Program in Urban America
Life Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The study presented here is one of urban poverty, household survival, and social institutions that both enable and control the decision-making of poor women in America. First and foremost, it is about a public health program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children,...
Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
The Struggle to Create Neighborhoods that Serve Human Needs
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book – result of an international conference – purposes to promote a discussion between researchers on issue concerning urban sprawl and the impacts that sprawl has on the environment, economy and society in general, as well as the costs that this urban form implies. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: the...
Urban Housing Markets
Recent Directions in Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.
This volume is at once...
Metropolitan Philadelphia
Living with the Presence of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia region has witnessed virtually...
Explorations in Urban Design
An Urban Design Research Primer
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, this book advances an interdisciplinary and innovative approach, which is of direct importance to understanding the urban forms, conditions, practices and processes. It enthuses and inspires...
Studies in Temporal Urbanism
The urbanTick Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This book is very much about what the name urbanTick literally says, about the ticking of the urban, the urban as we experience it everyday on the bus, in the park or between buildings. It is about the big orchestrated mass migration of commuters, the seasonal blossoms of the trees along the walkway...
Mediterranean Urbanism
Historic Urban / Building Rules and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
This book brings together historic urban / building rules and codes for the geographic areas including Greece, Italy and Spain. The author achieved his ambitious goal of finding pertinent rules and codes that were followed in previous societies for the processes that formed the built environment of...