Urban category: 4425 books
The Future of Cities and Regions
Simulation, Scenario and Visioning, Governance and Scale
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
This guide for tomorrow’s urban practitioner systematically explains fifteen best practices across three continents; it explores questions of broad interest for designing and planning the future of cities and regions. Key questions addressed are: Is simulation useful to explore the effects of different...
Science and the City
The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?
Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary...
Visions of Sustainability
Cities and Regions
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2007
This book examines the sustainability of cities and regions and concludes that currently sustainability is not achievable. By identifying how cities and regions in the past have maintained or lost sustainability and how cities and regions of today might achieve sustainability in the future, it
gives...
by Ran Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making...
Remaking Cities (Routledge Revivals)
Contradictions of the Recent Urban Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and country planning, between 1945 and 1975. Always a fine balance between central control and market forces, it was challenged by strains within and between the environmental professions...
Planning World Cities
Globalization and Urban Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning...
Cities as International Actors
Urban and Regional Governance Beyond the Nation State
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance. Far from being merely carried along by global forces, cities have become active players in making and maintaining the networks and connections that give shape to contemporary globalization....
The Brooklyn Nobody Knows
An Urban Walking Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City—6,000 miles in all—to write the award-winning The New York Nobody Knows. Now he has re-walked Brooklyn—some 816 miles—to write this one-of-a-kind walking guide to the city's hottest borough. Drawing on hundreds of conversations he had with...
The Ever-Changing American City
1945–Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a straightforward account of...
Bottleneck
Moving, Building, and Belonging in an African City
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal—a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future.
Melly opens with an account of the...
Save the Bees!
Beekeepers on the Frontlines of New York’s Urban Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Grappling with the strange phenomenon of colony collapse disorder—the baffling disappearance of all bees from a hive that is often blamed for the honeybee’s increasingly endangered status—New York City’s hobbyist beekeeping communities have gone green. Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut introduce...
The Moral Economy of Cities
Shaping Good Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In The Moral Economy of Cities, Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the vision of the 'good city' embraced by professionals in the business of city making recognizes the...
More than the Soil
Rural Change in SE Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
More than the Soil focuses on the social, cultural, economic and technological processes that have transformed rural areas of Southeast Asia. The underlying premise is that rural lives and livelihoods in this region have undergone fundamental change. No longer can we assume that rural livelihoods...
Latino City
Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945–2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Latino Cityexplores the transformation of Lawrence, Massachusetts, into New England's first Latino-majority city. Like many industrial cities, Lawrence entered a downward economic spiral in the decades after World War II due to deindustrialization and suburbanization. The arrival of tens of thousands...