City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience
Encountering the City
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another.
From the foundations...
by Ran Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making...
Reinterpreting Sub-Saharan Cities through the Concept of Adaptive Capacity
An Analysis of Autonomous Adaptation in Response to Environmental Changes in Peri-Urban Areas
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This book explores whether and how a reinterpretation of Sub-Saharan cities, through the concept of adaptive capacity, could bridge this distance and contribute to a new understanding of the contemporary city. The research contributes to improved knowledge of urban and environmental planning and of...
Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement
Practicable Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Since Integrating City Planning and Environmental Improvement was originally published in 1999, the practice of integrating urban physical planning and environmental quality management has been widely adopted by governments worldwide. Fully revised and updated with a new preface by editors Donald...
Urban Governance and Informal Settlements
Lessons from the City of Jayapura, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2019
The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries. Set within the context of understanding urban planning and management within the wider city setting,...
The Divided City
Ideological and Policy Contestations in Contemporary Urban India
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
The Divided City contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on cities of the global South. Cities in developing countries, particularly emerging economies, are undergoing rapid urbanization and social transition. Empirically grounded to the contemporary urban situation in India, The Divided...
by Raymond Charles Rauscher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs). Part I looks at the background to planning urban areas in the face of global urban changes. These changes (i.e. population movements and densification...
American Urban Form
A Representative History
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.
American Urban Form—the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life—has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings,...
Perspectives in Urban Ecology
Ecosystems and Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Metropolis of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology. Basic understanding of urban nature development and its social reception are discussed for the European Metropolitan Area of Berlin. Furthermore, we investigate specific consequences for the environment, nature and the quality of life...
by Yvonne Rydin
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Achieving urban sustainability is amongst the most pressing issues facing planners and governments. This book is the first to provide a cohesive analysis of sustainable urban development and to examine the processes by which change in how urban areas are built can be achieved. The author looks at...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
As population growth accelerates, researchers and professionals face challenges as they attempt to plan for the future. Urban planning is a significant component in addressing the key concerns as the world population moves towards the city and leaves the rural environment behind, yet there are many factors...
Urban Sustainability
Reconnecting Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.
Urban Sustainability...
Visualizing the Data City
Social Media as a Source of Knowledge for Urban Planning and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments—cities—in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban...