Regional Planning category: 486 books
Reimagining Detroit
Opportunities for Redefining an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Suggests ways for Detroit to become a smaller but better city in the twenty first century and proposes productive uses for the city’s vacant spaces.
Cities Are Good for You
The Genius of the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Cities are where the twenty-first century is really going to happen. Already at the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. So cities could either be our coffin or our ark.
Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities...
The Metropolitan Revolution
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the...
The Public Wealth of Cities
How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
How to leverage existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities
Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and inadequate social services. These are common complaints in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much less make the long-term...
Urban-Rural Interactions
Towns as Focus Points in Rural Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Modern Europe has rural roots. Even today, as much as 90 per cent of Europe (EU25) consists of rural areas in which half of the population lives. While different rural areas often face different challenges, the shift from agricultural production towards a multifunctional landscape and the increasing...
Asian Alterity
With Special Reference to Architecture and Urbanism through the Lens of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. Part I argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia's cultural differences at their varied development...
by Richard Florida
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first century -- now updated with a new preface
In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class reshaping...
East Asia's Changing Urban Landscape
Measuring a Decade of Spatial Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Urbanization is transforming the developing world. However, understanding the pace, scale, and form of urbanization has been limited by a lack of consistent data. East Asias Changing Urban Landscape aims to address this problem by using satellite imagery and other data to measure urban expansion across...
by Franca Ovadje
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine in 2014!
In Change Leadership for Developing Countries, Franca Ovadje offers readers a comprehensive and integrative model for the design, implementation and evaluation of organizational change. This unique book embodies an African...
Cities as Engines of Sustainable Competitiveness
European Urban Policy in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Reflecting on two decades of ’competitiveness-oriented’ urban policies in Europe, this book investigates the current challenges cities face to sustain their economic position and how this can be balanced with social progress and environmental improvements. Complementing previous surveys on local...
Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets
Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are...
The Icon Project
Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
In the last quarter century, a new form of iconic architecture has appeared throughout the world's major cities. Typically designed by globe-trotting "starchitects" or by a few large transnational architectural firms, these projects are almost always funded by the private sector in the service...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment...
by John Yinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for...