City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Regeneration Songs
Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Twenty-seven leading artists, writers and academics come together to tackle one of the most drastic urban regeneration programmes in world history - the "Regeneration Supernova" of East London.
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt...
Rethinking sustainable cities
Accessible, green and fair
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally...
Varieties of Civic Innovation
Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building...
The Empty Place
Democracy and Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In The Empty Place: Democracy and Public Space Teresa Hoskyns explores the relationship of public space to democracy by relating different theories of democracy in political philosophy to spatial theory and spatial and political practice.
Establishing the theoretical basis for the study...
Landscape Ecology and Water Management
Proceedings of IGU Rohtak Conference, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The over-exploitation of important earth resources such as land and water has led to a number of environment-related problems the world over. At the same time, land-use change caused by various human activities has led to extinction of many plant and animal habitats and species. In this context, the...
The Real Las Vegas
Life Beyond the Strip
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1999
What images come to mind when you think of Las Vegas? Mobsters and showgirls, magicians and tigers, multimillion-dollar poker games and prizefights; towering signboards that light up the night in front of ever more spectacular casino hotels. But real people live here, too--over a million today, two...
by Al Hurd, A-P Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized measurement, frameworks that support innovation, regulatory alignment, reducing consumption, reuse...
The Government Next Door
Neighborhood Politics in Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese...
by Donald F. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Metropolitan government and metropolitan governance have been ongoing issues for more than sixty years in the United States. Based on an extensive survey and a review of existing literature, this book offers a comprehensive overview of these debates. It discusses how the centrifugal forces in local...
by Maria Laura Scaduto
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
This book aims to stimulate new thinking on the roles of river contracts in the protection and management of hydrographic resources and ecosystems and in the sustainable development of dependent territories and communities. Up-to-date information is provided on a range of topics relating to river...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in suburbia. The book highlights suburban business complexes and mixed-use centers throughout the United...
Territories and urbanisation in South Africa
Atlas and geo-historical information system (DYSTURB)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The DYSTURB database collates, harmonises and inter-relates over time the following different elements: a set of political, administrative and functional maps of the districts, provinces and urban areas; the demographic and administrative data for all South African localities from 1911. In all, the...
Domestic fortress
Fear and the new home front
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige...
Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change
Uncomfortable positions in local government
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
How are multiculturalism, inequality and belonging understood in the day-to-day thinking and practices of local government? Examining original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects' linked with community cohesion policy: diversity,...