City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico
Urbanization by Stealth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "irregular" subdivisions offer the only low-cost housing available...
My Backyard Jungle
The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation...
by Nathalie Haymann
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This story is a blueprint – a written documentary and tangible map of a grassroots activist community initiative of people versus the machine. In their own words, residents of a historical inner city suburb in Queensland describe their protracted and bitter battle with the Brisbane City Council,...
Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City
Freedom, Creativity, Subsidiarity
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Both “land-use regulation” and “territorial collective services” have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public administrations. Recently, land-use regulation and collective service provision regimes have emerged within “contractual communities:” territory-based...
Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Geographical Transformation Process
GIS-based Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Currently, spatial analysis is becoming more important than ever because enormous volumes of spatial data are available from different sources, such as GPS, Remote Sensing, and others.
This book deals with spatial analysis and modelling. It provides a comprehensive discussion of spatial analysis,...
Ruptured Landscapes
Landscape, Identity and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This volume breaks new ground in the study of landscapes, both rural and urban. The innovative notion of this landscape collection is rupture. The book explores the ways in which societal, economic and cultural changes are transforming the meanings and understandings of landscapes. The text explores...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The Basque Country region in Spain is world renowned for a successful industrial transformation, the urban regeneration of Bilbao, cultural distinctiveness, unique governance arrangements and high wealth levels. Over the last 30 years, the region has implemented its science, technology and innovation...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the...
OECD Territorial Reviews: NORA Region 2011
The Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Coastal Norway
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The North Atlantic (NORA) region is a transnational area comprising the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, and the coastal counties of Norway. These territories are linked by shared characteristics and challenges, as well as by historical, institutional and cultural links. Improving accessibility...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010
While community quality-of-life indicators are gaining much needed attention in both scholarly work and practice, their application in the areas of parks, recreation and tourism management are not as well known. The applicability of indicator systems for natural resource and natural resource area...
West Ham and the River Lea
A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of London, the environment, and the history of political and social movements, as well as those interested in precursors to modern urban environmental politics.
A Conservative Consensus?
Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book is the result of research into the considerable impacts the signing of the Schengen Agreement has had on the border regions of the signatory, in particular the Central European internal borders. The analysis provides an in-depth look at European integration, development and perception at...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book examines social and natural environmental changes in present-day Laos and presents a new research framework for environmental studies from an interdisciplinary point of view. In Laos, after the Lao version of perestroika, Chintanakaan Mai, in 1986, for better or worse, rural development...