City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Structure
A Textbook in Urban Economics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The field of urban economics is built on an analysis of housing prices, land rents, housing consumption, spatial form, and other aspects of urban residential structure. Drawing on the journal publications and teaching notes of Pro
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
After decades "in the shadows", urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate. Long-standing truths are increasingly questioned as a confluence of developments affects lighting itself and the way it is viewed. Light has become an integral element of place-making and energy-saving...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
This book discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities. Presenting numerous city case studies, it focuses on one specific environmental resource in each city.
Environmental resources are commonly owned properties that require active inputs from the...
by Mohammad Ali Nematollahi, Samaneh Shahbazi, Nashid Nabian
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is penetrating in all sciences as a multidisciplinary approach. However, adopting the theory of AI including computer vision and computer audition to urban intellectual space, is always difficult for architecture and urban planners. This book overcomes this challenge through...
by Alejandro Mendoza Jaramillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Tesis de Maestría del año 2014 en eltema Planificación urbana y regional, Nota: 8,0, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Idioma: Español, Resumen: La presente investigación aborda los mecanismos e instrumentos de gestión urbanística implementados en dos contextos institucionales diferentes en torno...
The End of the Suburbs
Where the American Dream Is Moving
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
“The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”
For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle...
Living Over the Store
Architecture and Local Urban Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The shop/house – the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings – appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive...
by Yusuf Shahid; Nabeshima Kaoru
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Beijing and Shanghai comprise the axes of China's two leading urban regions. Their economic fortunes will affect the overall growth of China. The economic composition of the two megacities differs significantly and the future sources of competitive advantage also lie in different areas although there...
Unlocking Home
Three Keys to Affordable Communities
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Award-winning author and leading green thinker Alan Durning takes a hard look at urban housing and sees what many others have missed. Hidden in city regulations is a set of simple but powerful barriers to affordable housing for all. These rules criminalize history’s answers to affordable dwellings:...
by Robert E. England, John P. Pelissero, David R. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Managing Urban America guides students through the challenges, politics, and practice of urban management—including managing conflict through politics, adapting to demographic and social changes, balancing budgets, and delivering a myriad of goods and services to citizens in an efficient, equitable,...
Up from Zero
Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2004
In Up from Zero, Paul Goldberger, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, tells the inside story of the quest to rebuild one of the most important symbolic sites in the world, the sixteen acres where the towers of the former World Trade Center stood. A story of power, politics, architecture, community, and...
Twentieth-Century Sprawl
Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies...
Making the Second Ghetto
Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009
In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial...
Reimagining Detroit
Opportunities for Redefining an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city’s vacant spaces.