City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Emergency Preparedness
A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property and Business Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Emergency Preparedness: A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property, and Business Continuity provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters. It helps the reader to create an organization-wide emergency management plan that...
Swarming Landscapes
The Art of Designing For Climate Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today’s spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future, yet which are relatively uncontroversial:...
LED Street Lighting Best Practices
Lessons Learned from the Pilot LED Municipal Streetlight and PLN Substation Retrofit Project (Pilot LED Project) in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) street lighting technologies and designs can cut energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Asian Development Bank, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia, and the country’s state-owned electric utility have collaborated on...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Located on the southern coast of China, Guangdong is the country’s most populous and rich province. It has 95.4 million inhabitants and provides one-eighth of the national GDP. A key development feature of Guangdong has been “processing trade”, which has allowed companies to profit from importing...
by Rongxing Guo
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book pursues both narrative and analytic approaches to better understand China’s spatial economic development and its implications for Tibet. Accordingly, this book focuses on Tibet – an autonomous region in the far west of China – as the subject of an in-depth case study, highlighting...
by Georg Simmel
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
A quartet of essays on great European cities from the groundbreaking thinker Georg Simmel
These brilliant essays, from one of Germany's greatest and most influential thinkers, are beautifully written and highly readable portraits of three Italian cities: Rome, Venice and Florence. Simmel saw...
by Andrew Maliphant
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Local regeneration, and action on local issues, is fundamental to the sustainability of local communities. This is especially the case in the UK, with the Government focus on such approaches as Local Enterprise Partnerships and neighbourhood development plans, and further devolution proposals in the...
Rights in Transit
Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Is public transportation a right? Should it be? For those reliant on public transit, the answer is invariably “yes” to both. Indeed, when city officials propose slashing service or raising fares, it is these riders who are often the first to appear at that officials’ door demanding their “right”...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The factors that determine growth at the industry level are different for innovative versus mature industries. Growth industries rely on high-quality workers, access to capital, technical change, and numerous forms of collected economies. Mature industries concentrate on low-input costs and minimizing...
Building Prosperity
Housing and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book is a much-needed account, with numerous detailed examples, of the role of housing in economic growth and development by an author in a unique position to understand its importance and the practical measures for delivering that growth. While the linkages between housing and the macroeconomic...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
OECD's review of rural policy in Quebec. It finds that in rural Québec, both population and personal income are growing, on average, and the province’s economic base continues to diversify. Land occupancy is more homogenous than in the rest of Canada, due to the presence of denser networks of small...
Catalysts for Change
21st Century Philanthropy and Community Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Winner of the Community Development Society's 2014 Current Research Award!
21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Drawing first on the history of philanthropic funding, Maria Martinez-Cosio...
Creating Theoretical Research Frameworks using Multiple Methods
Insight from ICT4D Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
By now, it is commonly accepted that investments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) can facilitate macroeconomic growth in developed countries. Research standards in ICT for development (ICT4D) are high, and it is a basic expectation that a theoretically sound conceptual investigation...
Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?
Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit.
Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce...