City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Center of Dreams
Building a World-Class Performing Arts Complex in Miami
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Discover how one spectacular building project revolutionized Miami, how one man's moxie helped turn a fractious tropical city into a cultural capital of the Americas. In Center of Dreams, New York Times bestselling author Les Standiford tells the inspiring story of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the...
Frostbike
The Joy, Pain and Numbness of Winter Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The bicycle is fast becoming a ubiquitous form of transportation in cities all over the world, making our urban spaces more efficient, more livable and healthier. But many of those bicycles disappear into basements and garages when the warm months end, parked there by owners fearful of the cold, snow...
On Bicycles
50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Once the quaint province of European cities such as Amsterdam, daily cycling is currently exploding in North American cities. People ride folding bikes to the train, slip through traf?c on tricked-out ?xed-gears, and carry children and groceries on their utility bikes. Commuters are giving up their...
Property Management
Corporate Strategies, Financial Instruments and the Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Drawing upon a number of international property management projects, this book outlines the issues underlying the development of property management. Addressing key topics such as value for money, economy, efficiency and effectiveness, it focuses on corporate strategies and financial instruments of...
Housing Policy in Latin American Cities
A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas...
Urbanisation, unlimited
A Thematic Journey
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In a series of essays, the process of urbanisation – a human mega-trend acquiring unprecedented scale and speed as globalisation proceeds – is examined in the most diverse contexts and stages of development. Drawing on scientific references and identifying recurring themes like dispersion, privatisation...
Cities for a small continent
International handbook of city recovery
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities,...
Engineers and Communities
Transforming Sanitation in Contemporary Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Access to water and sanitation service in industrialized countries is nearly taken for granted, but in many developing countries less than half of the population has access to such services. Decades of effort on a global scale have been invested to solve this problem. One such effort—Brazil’s...
Transit Life
How Commuting Is Transforming Our Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
An exploration of the ways that everyday life in the city is defined by commuting.
We spend much of our lives in transit to and from work. Although we might dismiss our daily commute as a wearying slog, we rarely stop to think about the significance of these daily journeys. In Transit Life,...
Una teoría del urbanismo
Acerca de la organización constructivo-espacial de ciudad (Segunda edición)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Con el propósito de dar elementos para la reflexión sobre el diseño urbano, desde la dimensión arquitectónico-espacial y acudiendo a otras disciplinas relacionadas con el urbanismo para encontrar un balance entre la práctica y la teoría, Dieter Frick propone una mirada comprometida tanto con...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Finding innovative and useful measurement practices for community development projects is gaining in importance as policymakers increase the demands for accountability. This book examines some of the latest efforts to document the effectiveness of local development efforts. The types of documentation...
Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn
A View from the Street
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In this book, the authors “revisit” two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena's comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods' decline...
by Shlomo Angel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Planeta de ciudades, de Shlomo Angel, es un destacado estudio que combina una historia nueva y ambiciosa del crecimiento urbano mundial con un conjunto de recomendaciones de política sorprendentemente simple y convincente. El libro sugiere que algunas de las políticas de planeación que se aceptan...
Brew to Bikes
Portland's Artisan Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Portland, Oregon—urban nexus for the artisan and entrepreneur, flourishing metropolis where goods both hip and homespun converge. Brew to Bikes celebrates emerging industries that combine the artisan aesthetic with business ingenuity and an ethos of sustainability. Author Charles Heying guides readers...