City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Unruly Places
Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A tour of the world’s hidden geographies—from disappearing islands to forbidden deserts—and a stunning testament to how mysterious the world remains today
At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite’s remotest trails and cell phones double as navigational...
BART
The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
**The history of Bay Area Rapid Transit, as told by "Mr. BART" himself **
When BART opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1972, it became a catalyst for a renaissance in modern rail transit, both nationally and internationally. The concept as sold to Bay Area voters was gargantuan:...
Mayor
The Best Job in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia. From the time he was sworn in until he left office in 2016, there were triumphs and challenges, from the mundane to the unexpected, from snow...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
The service sector, in aggregate, now dominates total employment and value-added in OECD countries, accounting for more than 70% of these two measures, and continues to increase in importance. While services may play a slightly smaller role in rural regions than in urban areas, they are the dominant...
Modernism in the Streets
A Life and Times in Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker
Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a...
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported...
Last Futures
Nature, Technology and the End of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?
In the late 1960s the world was faced with impending disaster: the height of the Cold War, the end of oil and the decline of great cities throughout the world. Out of this crisis came a new generation that hoped to build a better future,...
No Place Like Home
Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United States, and for many Americans, buying a home is the most important financial investment they will ever make. We are deeply committed...
Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Metropolitan commercial real estate markets are highly influenced by global forces, the regional economy, and institutional behaviour. While descriptions of regional commercial real estate markets are well known and widespread in academic literature, this monograph goes beyond that in explaining...
Understanding China's Urbanization
The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China’s...
Conflicted Identities
Housing and the Politics of Cultural Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Nation-states have long used representational architecture to create symbolic identities for public consumption both at home and abroad. Government buildings, major ensembles and urban plans have a visibility that lends them authority, while their repeated portrayals in the media cement their image...
Italian Historical Rural Landscapes
Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Sustainable development and rural policies have pursued strategies where farming has been often regarded as a factor deteriorating the ecosystem. But the current economic, social and environmental problems of the Earth probably call for examples of a positive integration between human society and...
Urbanización y hábitat en Bariloche
Ciudades que habitan una ciudad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Esta obra revela una San Carlos de Bariloche donde coexisten la ciudad turística con otras ciudades no tan visibles para el observador externo: la de las desigualdades, la de la informalidad, la de las disputas por el acceso a la tierra y a entornos de privilegio. Una ciudad donde el Estado está...