Urban category: 4425 books
Suburban Planet
Making the World Urban from the Outside In
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities.
This book is about the process that creates the global urban...
Urban Futures for Central Canada
Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974
Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada. Three broad themes are discussed: forecasting (a spectrum of methodologies and urban forecasts); assessing the consequences of these forecasts at two...
New Urban World Journal
Vol 6 (1), March 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The New Urban World Journal was started by the International Society of Urban Mission and is now published semi annually by the Urban Shalom Society. This edition is the second part of our series on the City We Need. Inspired by the United Nations' Habitat 3 and the New Urban Agenda, the journal explores...
The Meaning of the Local
Politics of Place in Urban India
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
By zooming in on urban localities in India and by unpacking the 'meaning of the local' for those who live in them, the ten papers in this volume redress a recurrent asymmetry in contemporary debates about globalisation. In much literature, the global is associated with transnationalism, dynamism...
by Ralf Brand, Sara Fregonese
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Bringing together comparative case studies from Belfast, Beirut, Amsterdam and Berlin, this book examines the role of the urban environment in social polarisation processes. In doing so, it provides a timely and refreshingly innovative voice in the confusing babble on (counter-)terrorism, urban conflict...
Urban Ills
Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 1 examines both the economic impact of urban life and the social realities of urban living. The editors define...
The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility
Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations? Can our cities be made more sustainable, and can environmental, economic and social collapse be staved off through changes in urban form and travel...
Walking in the European City
Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and crucial research method (in spite of its ubiquity as part of urban life) has often been overlooked. This volume considers walking in the city from a variety...
Urban Ills
Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 2 is devoted to the myriad issues involving urban health and the dynamics of urban communities and their neighborhoods....
Realizing the Urban Potential in Georgia
National Urban Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This publication details the rapid assessment of the urban sector in Georgia to understand key urbanization trends and patterns of growth and to analyze challenges and opportunities. It gives a snapshot of the state of urban affairs at the national level with an urbanization profile, governance and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Urban Operational Plan (UOP) 2012-2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) supports ADB developing member countries (DMCs) in expanding their urban economies, improving environmental sustainability, and making pro-poor investments through a 3E approach (Economy, Environment, and Equity). This...
Remaking Metropolis
Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Remaking Metropolis examines examples of both urban decay and destruction as well as urban rebirth. It shows why particular approaches were successful, or did not achieve their objectives. By bringing together innovative approaches to urban living from across the world, and by demonstrating how local...
Access to Justice for the Urban Poor
Toward Inclusive Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall. It also identifies successful or promising community-based...
Urban China
Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In the last 30 years, China’s record economic growth lifted half a billion people out of poverty, with rapid urbanization providing abundant labor, cheap land, and good infrastructure. While China has avoided some of the common ills of urbanization, strains are showing as inefficient land development...