Urban category: 4425 books

Cover of Strategies for Urban Development in Leipzig, Germany
by Jean-Claude Garcia-Zamor
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

The demographic pressure caused by migration offers a considerable challenge for urban centers today. It results in an uneven development of the community and focus of urban planners becomes how to provide decent, low-cost housing and transportation in order to facilitate the integration of poorer...
Cover of Religion and Community in the New Urban America
by Paul D. Numrich, Elfriede Wedam
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015

Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations. The authors ask how the new metropolis affects local religious communities and what role those communities play in creating the new metropolis. Through an in-depth study of...
Cover of Music and Urban Geography
by Adam Krims
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012

Music and Urban Geography is the first book to theorize musical aspects of the tremendous changes that have overtaken major cities in the developed world over the past few decades. Drawing on musicology, music theory, urban geography, and historical materialism, Krims maps changes not only in how...
Cover of Explorations in Urban Theory
by Michael Peter Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses...
Cover of Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia
by Rajib Shaw, Atta-ur-Rahman, Akhilesh Surjan
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016

Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing...
Cover of The Social Production of Urban Space
by M. Gottdiener
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010

From reviews of the first edition: "This is perhaps the best theoretically oriented book by a United States urban sociologist since the work of Firey, Hawley, and Sjoberg in the 1940s and 1950s.... Gottdiener is on the cutting edge of urban theoretical work today." -Joe R. Feagin, Contemporary Sociology...
Cover of Mobility Patterns and Urban Structure
by Paulo Pinho, Cecília Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of...
Cover of Urban Poverty in Asia
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

This report provides an overview of important urban poverty questions. What defines urban poverty and how is urban poverty being measured? What other factors beyond consumption poverty need to be tackled? Who are the urban poor? What relations exist between urban poverty and city size? What linkages...
Cover of Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India

Entrepreneurial Urbanism in India

The Politics of Spatial Restructuring and Local Contestation

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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Through the analysis of Indian metropolises, this volume critiques the reality of “entrepreneurial governance” that has emerged as a major urban development practice in cities of the global south. In neoliberal India, the use of management rhetoric in urban development has rapidly led to the growth...
Cover of Production and Use of Urban Knowledge
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

This book provides new insights on cities and the nature of urban development, and the role of knowledge management in urban growth. It considers how knowledge informs policies and supports decision making, and can assist in addressing the drivers of urban change. The way that knowledge is produced...
Cover of Planning Sustainable Cities

Planning Sustainable Cities

Global Report on Human Settlements 2009

by Un-Habitat
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016

Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality....
Cover of Violence at the Urban Margins
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015

In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle...
Cover of Introducing Urban Design

Introducing Urban Design

Interventions and Responses

by Clara Greed, Marion Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

Introducing Urban Design: Interventions and Responses is a new departure in the town planning series under the editorship of Clara Greed. The dynamic new subject and profession of urban design straddles the fields of town planning, architecture, landscape architecture and transport planning. This...
Cover of Urban Planning in Lusophone African Countries
by Carlos Nunes Silva
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Urban planning on the five Lusophone African countries - Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Príncipe - has so far been relatively overlooked in planning literature. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book fills the gap by providing an in-depth analysis...
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