City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Whose land is our land?
The use and abuse of Britain's forgotten acres
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Food security and housing a nation with an expanding population should be key priorities for a small island like Britain. Yet both are being thwarted by record land prices. In the last 10 years, farm land has risen by almost 200% - with feeding the nation a secondary consideration to speculators buying...
by Spiers, Shaun
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside. Addressing both sides of this critical debate, Shaun Spiers argues that to drive house building on the scale...
Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods
An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities.
Nine-tenths of the Law
Property and Resistance in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
"Millions of foreclosed homes and abandoned buildings on one hand; millions of Americans desperate for decent shelter on the other. Hannah Dobbz makes the necessary addition of resources and needs in a book that is both a brilliant history of squatting in the USA and a template for the next stage...
What I Found in a Thousand Towns
A Traveling Musicians Guide to Rebuilding Americas Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes
Dubbed by the New Yorker as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters," Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She...
Smart Communities
How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaboration
Based on the results of more than a decade of research by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Smart Communities provides directions for strategic decision-making and outlines...
Participatory Governance
Planning, Conflict Mediation and Public Decision-Making in Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In recent years a new participatory governance dynamic has been redefining relationships and responsibilities in the planning and implementation of policies and programs. Participatory governance not only crosses public, private and associational sectors, but is also intra-organizational. It allows...
by Richard Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping...
Planning for the Unplanned
Recovering from Crises in Megacities
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities
Resisting a Dangerous Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
“Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and...
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
As the global population continues to boom, particularly in the developing countries, it has become necessary to find ways to handle this increase through various policy tools that address population growth and urbanization problems. The urbanization process has both potentials issues as well as opportunities...
Drought and Water Crises
Integrating Science, Management, and Policy, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Over the past decade there have been extraordinary advances towards drought risk reduction with the development of new water-conserving technologies, and new tools for planning, vulnerability and impact assessment, mitigation, and policy. Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book deals with planning issues in landscape architecture, which start at the evaluation of the existing fabric of society, its history and memory, approached and conserved through photography, film and scenographic installations, a way in which the archetypes can be investigated, be it industrial...
by Daniel Hinchcliffe, Judith Rugg
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
This second volume of the series 'Advances in Art & Urban Futures' brings together contributions from artists, sociologists, architects and cultural theorists in addressing the recoveries and reclamations being made within urban and rural landscapes as a result of the fallout of redevelopment...