City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial...
The purpose of planning
Creating sustainable towns and cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with...
Addressing Water Security in the People’s Republic of China
The 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Although accounting for about 20% of the global population, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is endowed with only 7% of the world’s water resources. The country faces severe water scarcity, high levels of urbanization and population growth, and climate change. For the PRC’s continuing development,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities: Selected Non-Avian Fauna is the first known account of the vertebrate and invertebrate fauna of several cities in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. It excludes birds, which are described in a companion volume. The book contains eleven chapters...
Moscow under Construction
City Building, Place-Based Protest, and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to destructive redevelopment practices in Moscow and the consequent changes in city’s governance regime. The groups of citizens discussed in this study have struggled to defend homes, neighborhoods, heritage buildings, and historic...
by Mona A. Abdelwahab
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Providing a critique of the concepts attached to the representation of urban space, this ground-breaking book formulates a new theory of space, which understands the dynamic interrelations between physical and social spaces while tracing the wider urban context. It offers a new tool to approach the...
by Borja Alonso, Rubén Cordera, Luigi dell’Olio
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Transport and the spatial location of population and activities have been important themes of study in engineering, social sciences and urban and regional planning for many decades. However, an integrated approach to the modelling of transport and land use has been rarely made, and common practice...
A Negotiated Landscape
The Transformation of San Francisco’s Waterfront since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco’s iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment.
To understand this landscape Jasper...
Legitimacy and Urban Governance
A Cross-National Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement.
It explores the nature of the interaction between community involvement and political leadership in modern local governance by drawing on empirical...
Enabling participatory planning
Planning aid and advocacy in neoliberal times
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book examines the challenges in delivering a participatory planning agenda in the face of an increasingly neoliberalised planning system and charts the experience of Planning Aid England. In an age of austerity, government spending cuts, privatisation and rising inequalities, the need to support...
Urban Issues
Selections from CQ Researcher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
What are the driving forces behind Smart Cities? What are the ramifications of increasing the minimum wage? What are the causes of aging infrastructure and how should they be addressed?
These are just some of the provocative questions that are considered in the new edition of Urban Issues....
Smart Metropolitan Regional Development
Economic and Spatial Design Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This bookdiscusses the concept and practice of a smart metropolitan region, and how smart cities promote healthy economic and spatial development. It highlights how smart metropolitan regional development can energize, reorganize and transform the legacy economy into a smart economy; how it can help...
by Simone Abram
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In planning debates, culture is often treated as a fixed element, either as a quasi-economic resource or as a category of behaviour. Yet a wealth of research and analysis is available that moves the spotlight from the question of what culture is, towards understanding what we are doing when we talk...
Second Home Tourism in Europe
Lifestyle Issues and Policy Responses
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Bringing together a wide range of studies from twelve European countries, this book offers a state-of-the-art overview of the driving forces behind spatial diversity and social complexity inherent in second home expansion in all parts of the continent - from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean and from...