City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
No Straight Lines
Local Leadership and the Path from Government to Governance in Small Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life. With particular attention to the small city of Kamloops, BC, this collection explores the impact of extended,...
Israel’s Invisible Negev Bedouin
Issues of Land and Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This Brief provides a contextual framework for exploring the settlement rights of Israel's Bedouin population of the Negev desert, a traditionally pastoral nomadic Arab population. In 1948, the Israeli government relocated this population from the Negev region to settlements in Siyag. The explicit...
Atlante delle smart city. Comunità intelligenti europee ed asiatiche
Comunità intelligenti europee ed asiatiche
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Dopo una sezione introduttiva che tratta le definizioni, le politiche e gli strumenti utilizzati a livello europeo per lo sviluppo e la classificazione di una smart city, il volume presenta un ricco atlante delle smart city, una selezione di esempi di città, europee e asiatiche, che hanno sperimentato tecnologie, azioni e strategie in grado di renderle “intelligenti”.
by Susannah Hagan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design? How does Ecological Urbanism figure in this change? What is Ecological...
Form, Space and Design
From the Persian to the European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2019
This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities. It can be considered a guide to design, presenting qualitative criteria to satisfy practical needs. The subject is explored through interconnected chapters, each addressing an important aspect of form-space and design...
by Aldo Bonomi, Roberto Masiero
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Due letture del fenomeno che sta rivoluzionando i territori: comunitario-evolutiva quella di Aldo Bonomi, più attenta ai processi di produzione quella di Roberto Masiero. Anni di dibattiti sul tema delle smart cities, sui dispositivi di tempistica dei semafori o di pagamento dei parcheggi che renderebbero...
The Metropolitan Revolution
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the...
The Argentine Republic
Its Development and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
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In the following chapters I have endeavoured to indicate the essential aspects of colonization in modern Argentina: the conquest of the soil by man, the exploitation of its natural resources, the development of agriculture and cattle-breeding, and the growth...
Dispatches Against Displacement
Field Notes from San Franciscos Housing Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement...
by Nick Wates
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants’ groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties, and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London. The author describes how property developers, interested only in maximising...
Urban Ecology
A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
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Ken and the Urban Ecology Center have been featured in local and national media outlets, including The New York Times, Milwaukee Magazine, Orion Magazine, Milwaukee Public Television, and in Richard Louv’s best-selling book, The Last Child in the Woods.
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning
Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional...
Global Modernization Review
New Discoveries and Theories Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Modernization has effected a profound change in human civilizations and is a global trend since the 18th century. It includes not only the great change and transformation from traditional to modern politics, economies, societies and cultures, but also all human development and protection of the natural...
Faster, Smarter, Greener
The Future of the Car and Urban Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
A call to redefine mobility so that it is connected, heterogeneous, intelligent, and personalized, as well as sustainable, adaptable, and city-friendly.
The twentieth century was the century of the automobile; the twenty-first will see mobility dramatically re-envisioned. Automobiles altered...