City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Satoyama
The Traditional Rural Landscape of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Japan’s traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate. The carefully managed coppice woodlands on the hillsides, the villages strung along the base of the hills, and the carefully tended paddy fields...
Changes in Production Efficiency in China
Identification and Measuring
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Evaluating Production Efficiency in China examines production from engineering and statistics perspectives rather than from economics and mathematics perspectives. The authors present an observable benchmark as the criterion of the production efficiency to replace the unobservable production frontier...
The Secret Life of Cities
Social reproduction of everyday life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, and social and economic shock waves that have raged...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Sustainability of rural communities is threatened by a plethora of factors including climate change and disasters which interact in an intricate manner in making rural people vulnerable and poor. This book is the output of empirical research on communities and livelihood strategies in developing countries....
Land Use Changes in the Czech Republic 1845–2010
Socio-Economic Driving Forces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The objective of this book is to analyze changes in the landscape of Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic since the first half of the 19th century. The text focuses not only on describing these considerable changes by means of statistical and spatial data, but also on explaining the processes, societal,...
by John A. Flannery, Karen M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
The ancient pairing of architecture and books has always been an interesting topic for debate, and the increasing popularity of electronic books has recently added fuel to the fire. However, the bonfires built for the printed version remain unlit. Research undertaken for this publication suggests...
Evolution of Dam Policies
Evidence from the Big Hydropower States
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The World Commission on Dams (WCD) report (2000) “Dams and Development: A New Framework for Decision-Making” set a landmark in the ongoing controversy over large dams. Now that more than ten years have passed, one has to realize that the WCD norms matter. However, their real chance of becoming...
Flight and Motion
The History and Science of Flying
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Designed for readers from grade 6 and up, this lavishly illustrated set provides comprehensive coverage of the history of aviation, including space flight, as well as the science and technology on which it depends. Detailed A-Z entries trace the development of human flight from ancient myths and legends...
Houses in Transformation
Search for the Implicit Reasons
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
This book analyzes the reasons of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries. Recognizing Housing Transformation as a natural phenomenon, the book focuses on self-built houses in the city of Dhaka. Firstly, it explains the explicit reasons behind spontaneous...
by Daniel W. Ambaye
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This thesis provides a new approach to the Ethiopian Land Law debate. The basic argument made in this thesis is that even if the Ethiopian Constitution provides and guarantees common ownership of land (together with the state) to the people, this right has not been fully realized whether in terms...
From a Nickel to a Token
The Journey from Board of Transportation to MTA
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A fascinating micro-history of NYC’s subway system from LaGuardia’s public works achievements in 1940 to the creation of the MTA in 1968.
In 1940, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized an ambitious plan to modernize the city’s public transit. He eliminated streetcars, demolished...
by Claudio Minca, Rory Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought, offering the first systematic examination from a Geographic perspective of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century.
It charts...
Greening Affordable Housing
An Interactive Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Books on green building theories, principles and strategies applicable to life cycles of all kinds of buildings and building types are already widely available. However, those specifically on greening affordable housing that guide various housing stakeholders at different life cycles are still very...
The Road Taken
The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.
Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is...