City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
The Creative City
Vision and Execution
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Creative City: Vision and Execution, edited by James E. Doyle and Biljana Mickov, challenges the popular understanding of the Creative City, by bridging the gap between the Creative City as concept and the Creative City as practice and, in so doing, provides a contemporary template for policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape...
Altering Practices
Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This collection of essays addresses and defines the state of contemporary theories and practices of space: it is concerned with the growing importance of technology and communications, the effects of globalization and the change of social demands. Within the current urban and geopolitical contexts,...
Floods in a Megacity
Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly...
Transforming San Antonio
An Insider's View to the AT&T Arena, Toyota, the PGA Village, and the Riverwalk Extension
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
San Antonio boasts one of the country’s fastest-growing metropolitan regions, thanks to visionary personalities, key politicians, a vibrant citizenry, and a bit of luck. In this lively behind-the-scenes account, former mayor Nelson Wolff focuses on four major developments - the San Antonio Spurs’...
by Clinton Aigbavboa, Wellington Thwala
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This book explores residential satisfaction and housing policy trends in developing nations by using subsidised low-income housing examples in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria as case studies. While there has been much documentation on the formation of residential satisfaction and the evolution of...
Dragons in Diamond Village
Tales of Resistance from Urbanizing China
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
“David Bandurski is a modern-day Marco Polo taking us into the heart of new China.” —Kevin Sites, author of In the Hot Zone
China’s explosive modernization has led to a unique phenomenon: voraciously-growing cities absorbing formerly distant villages that become tenement communities.
Dragons...
Rebuilding Britain
Planning for a better future
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Britain faces extraordinary challenges, from climate change to growing inequality and global economics, but as a nation it has no plan for the future. This unique book asks a simple question: how can Britain organise itself, not just for survival but to build a fairer and sustainable society? The...
Investigating Quality of Urban Life
Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains. This book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical...
by Andy Thornley
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Globalization was the buzzword of the last decade. Advances in communication technology, computing and air travel have all contributed to the establishment of what has been referred to as a 'network society' that encompasses the globe. Such arguments clearly have a significance on planning - an activity...
by Olaf Kühne
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how they are individually updated...
by Dulyapak Preecharushh
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Naypyidaw: The New Capital of Burma examines the possible factors involved in the current relocation of the capital in order to enrich and enhance understanding about contemporary Burma/Myanmar in various aspects - including History, Geography, Political Science, Military Science, Economics, Sociology...
Normalizing Occupation
The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative framework for understanding the process of "normalization" in the life of...
by Mohammad Qadeer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan’s likely future direction.
Pakistan examines how...