Urban category: 4425 books
Cities in the Third Wave
The Technological Transformation of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. Arguing that technology has both created and recast cities throughout history, Leonard I. Ruchelman explores how cities are being affected by new technology and how they will evolve in the future....
by Luigi La Riccia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning? What actions / rules are now achievable for the protection, planning and management of local-scale landscapes? The overall reflections gathered...
Transport Systems of Russian Cities
Ongoing Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This volume discusses post-socialist urban transport functioning and development in Russia, within the context of the country’s recent transition towards a market economy. Over the past twenty-five years, urban transport in Russia has undergone serious transformations, prompted by the transitioning...
Urban Uprisings
Challenging Neoliberal Urbanism in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book analyses the waves of protests, from spontaneous uprisings to well-organized forms of collective action, which have shaken European cities over the last decade. It shows how analysing these protests in connection with the structural context of neoliberal urbanism and its crises is more...
Urban Nightscapes
Youth Cultures, Pleasure Spaces and Corporate Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
In many western cities, urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking over large parts of downtown areas, leaving consumers with an increasingly standardised experience.
This book takes a new look at this rapidly changing aspect of urban life, examining the...
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes
Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood...
by Yang Zhong
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book discusses one of the most noticeable and significant transformations in China over the past three decades is the rapid and massive urbanization of the country, which has brought shifts in political culture of Chinese urbanites. This book is a systematic and empirical study of political culture...
Urbicide
The Politics of Urban Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
The term ‘urbicide’ became popular during the 1992-95 Bosnian war as a way of referring to widespread and deliberate destruction of the urban environment. Coined by writers on urban development in America, urbicide captures the sense that the widespread and deliberate destruction of buildings...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5
Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground...
by John Goddard, Paul Vallance
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts – on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores...
The State of Pacific Towns and Cities
Urbanization in ADB's Pacific Developing Member Countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This report investigates urbanization trends across the 14 Pacific developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank. It examines the history of Pacific urbanization, current state of infrastructure and service provision within urban areas, and systems of urban governance. It presents key...
Blue and Green Cities
The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. The author argues that urban water managers have traditionally relied on grey infrastructural solutions to mitigate risks with numerous economic...
by Henry J. Pratt, Ronald Brown
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2004
Beginning in the 1890s, the social gospel movement and its secular counterpart, the Progressive movement, set the stage for powerful church and city governance connections. What followed during the next 100 years was the emergence of religious bodies as an important instrument for influencing City Hall...
Private Pleasure, Public Plight
Urban Development, Suburban Sprawl, and the Decline of Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations--the United States, Sweden, and England. The author focuses on how environment and culture interact to shape human behavior. Despite their many similarities, the three societies offer remarkably contrasting...