City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
The Making of the Chinese Middle Class
Small Comfort and Great Expectations
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the idea that China needs a middle...
by Summary Station
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
In 1912, Daniel Burnham and his family are aboard the RMS Olympic, the second largest cruise ship in the world and sister ship to the Titanic. Burnham has gained fame and wealth from aiding in the construction of the World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893. Nearly two decades later, Burnham is sixty-two...
by Albena Yaneva, Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos. Cosmos embraces everything, including the multifarious natural and material entities that make humans act. The book examines cosmopolitics in its relation to design practice....
Public Policymaking in Hong Kong
Civic Engagement and State-Society Relations in a Semi-Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Why and how has civic engagement emerged in the policy process of Hong Kong as an Asian semi-democratic state? This book attempts to answer this question through examining six cases that straddle diverse policy domains. It identifies three explanatory factors, namely, the profile of a policy domain,...
Rethinking Life at the Margins
The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic...
People, Places and Landscapes
Social Change in High Amenity Rural Areas
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
This volume is a cogent empirical analysis of the interplay between a region’s natural amenities and its socioeconomic evolution. It focuses on the rural sectors of America’s Intermountain West region, which lies between the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountains to the west and the Rocky Mountains...
Merger Delusion
How Swallowing Its Suburbs Made an Even Bigger Mess of Montreal
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Powerless under the country's constitution, Canadian municipal governments often find themselves in conflict with their provincial masters. In 2002, the Province of Quebec forcibly merged all cities on the Island of Montreal into a single municipality - a decision that was partially reversed in 2006....
Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism
Towards Hybrid Modes of Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
The volume addresses the hybridisation of knowledge production in space-related research. In contrast with interdisciplinary knowledge, which is primarily located in scholarly environments, transdisciplinary knowledge production entails a fusion of academic and non-academic knowledge, theory and practice,...
Modèles de la ville durable en Asie / Asian models of sustainable city
Utopies, circulation des pratiques, gouvernance / Utopia, circulation of practices, governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Le monde est désormais entré dans l’ère de l’urbain, la majorité des habitants de la planète vivant en ville. Rassemblant les deux tiers de la population mondiale, l’Asie concentre plus de la moitié des villes vulnérables dans le monde. Le thème de la ville durable en Asie s’est donc...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science. With an inclusive international perspective, and founded on the principles of social demography, this handbook shows how the rural population, which recently...
Landscape Modelling
Geographical Space, Transformation and Future Scenarios
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2010
Landscape modelling integrates the differing perspectives of the many disciplines that deal with the landscape. It is motivated not only by the desire for scientific understanding, but also by the real-time demands of 21st century postindustrial society, which include the twin imperatives of stabilizing...
by Zhang Ming
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
The book contributes to answering the questions raised by mayors, governors, and federal government officials in Brazil: "What can cities do to improve economic performance and create jobs?" The question is approached through a review of theories and policy options for city competitiveness, preliminary...
by Clayton P. Gillette
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Unique Urbanity?
Rethinking Third Tier Cities, Degeneration, Regeneration and Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence. The strengths and opportunities...