Urban category: 4425 books
The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union
Cohesion, Results-Orientation and Smart Specialisation
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous transformations in European regions and by shifts in thinking and analysis. The issues raised by the changes to regional and urban development...
by Carlos Nunes Silva
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
There has been relatively little written on the history of urban planning in North Africa, despite the wealth of towns and cities in this region which date back to Antiquity. The book explores the history of urban planning in North Africa and the challenges confronting contemporary urban planning...
Cities of Light
Two Centuries of Urban Illumination
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities. Urban lighting is undergoing a revolution due to recent developments in lighting...
Inside Smart Cities
Place, Politics and Urban Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions...
by M. Gordon Brown
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly preferred for 5000 years throughout the world, why the Founding Fathers wanted gridform cities and how they affect economic transactions. Real property has been instrumental in...
Beyond the Kale
Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture—fresh food, green space, educational opportunities—can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder...
Urban Eco-Communities in Australia
Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets?
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbourne....
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Richard Florida, one of the world's leading urbanists and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movement
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....
Welcome to the Urban Revolution
How Cities Are Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
The revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last fifty years-the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America-were fundamentally urban revolutions....
by Isolde Brade, Konstantin Axenov, Evgenij Bondarchuk
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
In the years since 1989, the societies of Russia and Eastern Europe have undergone a remarkable transformation from socialism to democracy and free market capitalism. Making an important contribution to the theoretical literature of urbanism and post-communist transition, this significant book considers...
by Margaret Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
The city is a paradoxical space, in theory belonging to everyone, in practice inaccessible to people who cannot afford the high price of urban real estate. Within these urban spaces are public and social goods including roads, policing, transit, public education, and culture, all of which have been...
Family Properties
Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
Part family story and part urban history, a landmark investigation of segregation and urban decay in Chicago -- and cities across the nation
The "promised land" for thousands of Southern blacks, postwar Chicago quickly became the most segregated city in the North, the site of the...
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience
Reading from the Mobile City
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain. Fraser shows how Lefebvre's complex view of city as a mobile phenomenon is relevant to understanding a variety of Spanish cultural...
Urban Development
The Logic Of Making Plans
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
With increased awareness of the role of plans in shaping urban and suburban landscapes has come increased criticism of planners and the planning profession. Developers, politicians, and citizens alike blame "poor planning" for a hof community ills. But what are plans really supposed to do? How do...