City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book summarizes the key findings of a five-year interdisciplinary research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). It serves as a typical case study for a rapidly growing and developing urban center – Da Nang City, which is surrounded by remote areas...
To Scale
One Hundred Urban Plans
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2007
How big is Moscow‘s Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there fewer public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might be found in the plan of Savannah, Georgia‘s historic district? To Scale is a collection of plans of urban spaces drawn at the same scale to help answer these questions by providing a single and ac
Fields of Authority
Special Purpose Governance in Ontario, 1815-2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Everywhere we turn in Canadian local politics – from policing to transit, education to public health, planning to utilities – we encounter a peculiar institutional animal: the special purpose body. These “ABCs” of local government – library boards, school boards, transit authorities, and...
by Global Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
This joint publication from Global Policy and the Observer Research Foundation provides information on key urban challenges facing India, and directions the country could take to absorb and manage future growth. Five aspects responsible for achieving sustainable urbanisation are reviewed: Urban population...
The Woodlands
The Inside Story of Creating a Better Hometown
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Get a behind-the-scenes look into The Woodlands, an innovative new town that was built from the ground up near Houston, Texas. This is the story of the people who were instrumental in developing it and the experiences and challenges they had in creating a better, "new" hometown.
The future of sustainable cities
Critical reflections
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of the impacts of recent changes on key areas...
by Johan Woltjer, Ernest Alexander, Matthias Ruth
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This emphasis is not only on integrating various projects, but also integrating them with related issues such...
No Simple Solutions
Transforming Public Housing in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In this book, Sue Popkin tells the story of how an ambitious—and risky—social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA),...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book synthesizes knowledge from several fields that are crucial to sustainable rural development: the physical environment, biological and agricultural production, rural sociology and economics. It takes a systems perspective incorporating systems analysis, landscape analysis and soil, water,...
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
Movements at the Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental...
Lansing at the Crossroads
A Partisan History of the Village of Lansing, New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
The construction of a new four-lane highway on the outskirts of Ithaca, NY created a rapidly growing commercial center in the previously rural Town of Lansing. The clash between the newcomers and the old-timers over the direction and pace of this change led to the formation of a new local government...
Cities at Risk
Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, can...
What's in a Name?
Talking about Urban Peripheries
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
‘Borgata’, ‘favela’, ‘périurbain’, and ‘suburb’ are but a few of the different terms used throughout the world that refer specifically to communities that develop on the periphery of urban centres.
In What’s in a Name? editors Richard Harris and Charlotte Vorms have gathered...
The World’s Urban Forests
History, Composition, Design, Function and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world. It will ask questions about the history, composition, structure, and management of trees in urban areas. Data for this book was collected in 33 cities across broad geographical areas known as biomes. Constraints and opportunities...