City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
The Politics of the Piazza
The History and Meaning of the Italian Square
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. Illustrated by contemporary photographs and analytical drawings, it examines significant piazzas and situates these...
Edge City
Life on the New Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.
The New Brooklyn
What It Takes to Bring a City Back
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Featured in The New York Times Book Review
Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as “The Honeymooners” and “Welcome Back, Kotter”—comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today,...
Community Visioning Programs
Processes and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Community visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for their cities, and is essential for the effective planning and implementation of these strategies. Visioning involves collaborative goal setting to motivate actions – of planners, citizens,...
Path To Progress
Innovative Solutions for Growth, Prosperity, and Security
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
As of January 2012, the world held seven billion people, up from five billion just twenty years before. The middle class in China, India, and Brazil is just taking off, which means those countries will desire the same resources Americans currently take for granted. If the rest of the world attempts to...
City of Gold
An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.
by Mike Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
This book examines emerging hypotheses, new methods and theoretic developments in regional economic development. It offers a diverse set of case studies, ranging from a focus on Europe, Central and East Asia and North America.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book discusses the effects of Neo-Liberal policies on the transformations of architectural and urban practices and education in the transition from the era of “professionalism” to “post-professionalism.” Building on previous literature in the field of contemporary theory of architecture,...
Canadian-American Planning
The Seventh Annual Conference on Canadian-American Relations, 1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1966
The Seventh Annual Seminar of Canadian-American relations held at the University of Windsor brought together a number of distinguished participants, representing such interested groups as labour, business, and research, to discuss planning. The result is this volume which brings together some of the...
Shaping Urban Infrastructures
Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentally, socially and economically...
by Johanne Sloan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining representing and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
The One-Way Street of Integration
Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Edward G. Goetz doesn’t see the solution...
Waste Is Information
Infrastructure Legibility and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The relationship between infrastructure governance and the ways we read and represent waste systems, examined through three waste tracking and participatory sensing projects.
Waste is material information. Landfills are detailed records of everyday consumption and behavior; much of what we...