Urban category: 4425 books
Cities From Scratch
Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related...
The Seduction of Place
The History and Future of Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of urban life...
Serving God in Today's Cities
Facing the Challenges of Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Welcome to the world's first urban century. How will you respond? For the first time ever, more people now live in cities than outside them. Cities offer both big headaches and vast opportunities, and agencies that once focused on rural work are increasingly turning their attention to urban centers....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Law and the City offers a lateral, critical and often unexpected description of some of the most important cities in the world, including Moscow, Istanbul, Berlin, Singapore, Athens, Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: each one from a distinctive legal perspective.
An invaluable 'guide'...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In a world where half of the population lives in cities and more than 90 percent of urban growth is occurring in the developing world, cities struggle to modernize without completely losing their unique character, which is embodied by their historic cores and cultural heritage assets. As countries develop,...
Who me, Poor?
How India's youth are living in urban poverty to make it big
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
The characteristics and reasons for urban poverty are manifold and seem to repeat across class structures: migration, culture shock, real estate costs and unrealistic expectations of city life, a lack of financial education, corporate cultures that perpetuate stereotypical workforces, a glamourised...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Going beyond the celebrated 'hot-spots' of economic development, this book draws upon evidence from a broader range of cities and regions to help fill some important gaps in our knowledge of how clusters operate within the contemporary global economy.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Urban Studies.
Financing Africa's Cities
The Imperative of Local Investment
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
This volume addresses the issues of financing urban growth of the African continent -- which has the highest urban growth rate on the planet -- in the next decades. Considerable investment will be needed to sustain this level of growth and to clear up accumulated backlogs. At the same time, decentralization...
by A. D. Thibeault
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
A full executive summary of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. This is not a chapter-by-chapter summary. Rather, the author takes an holistic approach, reorganizing and breaking down the content for easier understanding where necessary, and cutting out the...
City Bound
How States Stifle Urban Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many major American cities are defying the conventional wisdom that suburbs are the communities of the future. But as these urban centers prosper, they increasingly confront significant constraints. In City Bound, Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron address these limits in a new way. Based on a study...
by Steven Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. For the first time in human history, the majority of the people on the planet live in urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our...
Cool Cities
Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A pointed argument that cities—not nation-states—can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability. In this book,...
Global Cities
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?
From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century,...
Boomburbs
The Rise of America's Accidental Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "cities" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people...