City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Historical Land Use/Land Cover Classification Using Remote Sensing
A Case Study of the Euphrates River Basin in Syria
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Although the development of remote sensing techniques focuses greatly on construction of new sensors with higher spatial and spectral resolution, it is advisable to also use data of older sensors (especially, the LANDSAT-mission) when the historical mapping of land use/land cover and monitoring of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways. Canada in Cities examines this relationship to better understand the interplay among changing demographics, how local governments and citizens frame their arguments for federal action, and the ways in which the national...
Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa
Intertwined and Contested Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping...
Gender, Home & Identity
Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their 'homes' in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able...
No Place Like Home
Repairing Australia’s Housing Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
More than a million lower-income households in Australia pay above the affordability benchmark for their housing costs. More than 100,000 people are homeless. Seventy per cent of us are concerned we’ll never own property. Yet owning a home is still seen by most Australians as an essential part of...
Toward Self-Sufficiency
A Community for a Transition Period
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
George Hunt spent more than fifty years as a community planner and landscape architect. This included hands-on work in impoverished and low-income areas which helped him understand the dynamics that hold us back from achieving self-sufficiency. In this book, he outlines a sustainable community project...
Complex Spatial Systems
The Modelling Foundations of Urban and Regional Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
A comprehensive core text from the expert in the field introducing students to the main issues of spatial systems modelling and analysis.
Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way
Imagining a More Just Street
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book explores the geography of the everyday roadway and contemplates how regulation and design shape our streets. People may question the hegemony of cars, but reimagining public streets is a major conceptual and technical challenge. Drawing from “new mobilities” and transport studies, Prytherch...
Resolving Environmental Conflicts
Principles and Concepts, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2019
Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations....
Rural Areas Between Regional Needs and Global Challenges
Transformation in Rural Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book provides an up-to-date account of the many processes shaping and transforming rural space in various parts of the world. The various case studies focus on the multi-functionality of the rural world and the driving forces behind it. The book demonstrates that rural areas are no longer simply...
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Les villes se transforment en permanence sous les effets conjugués des dynamiques économiques, des projets d'aménagement et des choix des ménages. Les opérations de rénovation urbaine occupent une place particulière car elles modifient de façon radicale la physionomie des espaces urbains....
Next Polis
Idee per la «città di domani»
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Per quale alchimia alcune città sono amate, belle e governabili, e altre no? E quali saranno le caratteristiche delle realtà comunali nei prossimi anni? La città del futuro, la Next Polis, sarà partecipata, coesa, produttiva ed estesa a patto che si recuperi una visione ideale che parta dal vissuto...
Stadtökosysteme
Funktion, Management und Entwicklung
Language: German
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Dieses Lehrbuch zu Stadtökosystemen beantwortet wichtige Fragen, die sich zum ökologischen Aufbau, zu den Funktionen und zur sozial-ökologischen Entwicklung von Städten weltweit stellen. Ausgehend davon, wie sich Städte heute in einer immer stärker urban werdenden Welt entwickeln, werden ökologische...
by Vittorio Biondi, Gianfelice Rocca
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Il volume raccoglie una serie di contributi che illustrano e analizzano il primo anno di vita della Città metropolitana di Milano, costituitasi nel gennaio del 2015. Vengono in particolare esaminate le prospettive e potenzialità di sviluppo economico e territoriale dell'area metropolitana e le aspettative...