City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Whose Public Space?
International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social fabric of the city to being a part of more impersonal and fragmented urban environments....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. These innovations have led to new opportunities in this evolving profession. Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning brings together the efficiency...
Urban China's Rural Fringe
Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Giulio Verdini, PhD in Economics, Urban and Regional Development, from the University of Ferrara, is Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design and Co-Director of the Research Institute of Urbanisation at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, People's Republic of China. Dr. Yiwen Wang, PhD in...
Chinese Urban Design
The Typomorphological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The traditional Chinese city is undergoing an identity crisis. With the rapid development taking place, there is growing conflict between this new building and the existing urban heritage. An appropriate approach, both in design and in legislation, is urgently needed to deal with this problem. Furthermore,...
by Majd Musa
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Gulf capital flows to Amman, Jordan, in the early twenty-first century and the investment of this capital in large-scale urban developments have significantly transformed the city’s built environment. Therefore, to understand urban transformation in Amman during this period it is important to analyze...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written...
by Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, Marco Amati
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential development,...
by Valerie Viehoff, Gavin Poynter
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Mega-events represent an important moment in the life of a city, providing a useful lens through which we may analyse their cultural, social, political and economic development. In the wake of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC’s) concerns about ’gigantism’ and wider public concerns...
by Ellen Shoshkes
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt’s life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role in twentieth-century design history. Here, Ellen Shoshkes provides a full and insightful appraisal of the British town planner, editor, and educator...
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million, or approximately one third of the country’s total population. As the urban component of this population increases, the need for resources...
Towns and Cities: Function in Form
Urban Structures, Economics and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking alternative theory of urban design. This is not urban design in the sense of the practice of design; rather it is a theory of the form of the town at all...
Planning Sustainable Cities
Global Report on Human Settlements 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality....
Urban Sprawl and Public Health
Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environmin which we live affect our health? For decades, growth and developmin our communities...
by Carlos Nunes Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and PrÃncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis...