Urban category: 4425 books
Urban Maps
Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban...
Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,...
My Los Angeles
From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country’s densest...
by Daniel P. O'Donoghue
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. These include suburbs, sprawl, edge cities, gated communities, conurbations and networks of places and such transformations cause conflict between central...
Governing Urban Economies
Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada’s urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban...
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....
by Bose Ranjan K.
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
Energy is intrinsic to urban settlements, embedded in the built environment, and directly used to power socio-economic activity, transport and communications, and enable the provision of municipal services. In response to the crucial role of urban energy efficiency for environmentally sustainable and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions...
by Yusuf Shahid; Saich Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
The key challenges facing China in the next two decades derive from the ongoing process of urbanization. China's urbanization rate in 2005 was about 43%. Over the next 10-15 years, it is expected to rise to well over 50%, adding an additional 200 million mainly rural migrants to the current urban...
Cities for People, Not for Profit
Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and...
China's Urban Space
Development under market socialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s,...
Urban Constellations
Spaces of Cultural Regeneration in Post-Industrial Britain
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
This book investigates the iconic architectural cultural spaces of the contemporary cityscape as engines of regeneration. Promising much to their fading locales, these spaces locate culture in the space where production once ruled in order to revitalise post-industrial urban provinces. With close...
Megacity Slums
Social Exclusion, Space and Urban Policies in Brazil and India
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues. In Delhi, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, the challenges they pose have spurred public actors into...
Remaking Urban Citizenship
Organizations, Institutions, and the Right to the City
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement. The disjuncture between citizenship and daily life has led to devolution of claims from national to...