Urban category: 4425 books
Investigating Town Planning
Changing Perspectives and Agendas
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Following on from Introducing Town Planning andImplementing Town Planning, this third volume in the series examines the scope and nature of modern town planning in greater depth. It investigates the theories and preoccupations which inform the current planning agenda, compares this with earlier objectives,...
Spatial Cultures
Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
What is the relationship between how cities work and what cities mean? Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Social Morphology of Cities Past and Present announces an innovative research agenda for urban studies in which themes and methods from urban history, social theory and built environment research...
Inner City Kids
Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they...
by Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation. Drawing from multiple perspectives, including architecture, urban design and urban planning,...
Cities in Relations
Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries.
Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Considers the ways in which a city’s relationships...
Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning
Case Study of an Australian Outer Sydney Growth Area
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Densification has been a central method of achieving smart, sustainable cities across the world. This book explores international examples of the property rights tensions involved in attempting to develop denser, more sustainable cities through compulsory acquisition of property. The case studies...
Architecture, Urban Space and War
The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
This book investigates architectural and urban dimensions of the ethnic-nationalist conflict in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, during and after the siege of 1992–1995. Focusing on the wartime destruction of a portion of the cityscape in central Sarajevo and its post-war reconstruction,...
by Richard Sennett
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order—and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth.
Drawing...
Vital Little Plans
The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist
No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinkerwhose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global...
Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities
Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
While global cities have mostly been characterized as sites of intensive and extensive economic activity, the quest for global city status also increasingly rests on the creative production and consumption of culture and the arts. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities examines such ambitions...
The New Localism
How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.
In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious...
Street Archives and City Life
Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx...
Detroit City Is the Place to Be
The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners,...