Urban category: 4425 books
ReNew Town
Adaptive Urbanism and the Low Carbon Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes.
To date, much of the discourse on the design...
Routes and Rites to the City
Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. It analyses transnational and local migration in contemporary and historical perspective, along with movements of commodities, ideas, sounds and colours...
New Islamic Schools
Tradition, Modernity, and Class in Urban Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The first ethnographic study of the trend toward religious, parochial schooling in urban Pakistan, this book provides data from over fifty-Karachi area schools to establish the complex reasons middle- and upper-class families enroll in religious Islamic schools.
Leading the inclusive city
Place-based innovation for a bounded planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future in accordance with progressive...
Divided Cities
Understanding Intra-urban Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This report provides an assessment of spatial inequalities and segregation in cities and metropolitan areas from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the report focus on a subset of OECD countries and non-member economies, and provide new insights on cross-cutting issues for city neighbourhooods,...
Modern Coliseum
Stadiums and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "retro" Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture. In the early twentieth century, a...
by Mu Li, Yang Feng Wu
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic achievement are largely ignored in commentaries on the subject.
Urbanization and Public Health in China seeks to redress this imbalance by bringing together academics and researchers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The evolution of city planning theory and practice in the first half of the twentieth century was captured and driven by a range of exhibitionary practices in a variety of settings globally, from international expos to local public halls. The agendas of the promoters varied, but exhibitions generally...
The World Is Always Coming to an End
Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day—and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it’s also people—the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out....
Transport Development in Asian Megacities
A New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
The rapid growth of the Asian urban population concentrates on a few large cities, turning them into giant megacities. Despite new theoretical insights into the benefits of megacities, the emerging Asia is facing a daunting challenge concerning the management of infrastructure and services in their...
The Science of Cities and Regions
Lectures on Mathematical Model Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
A ‘science of cities and regions’ is critical for meeting future challenges. The world is urbanising: huge cities are being created and are continuing to grow rapidly. There are many planning and development issues arising in different manifestations in countries across the globe. These developments...
Cities and Space
The Future Use of Urban Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Discusses aims of urban planning and ways to achieve improved city living. Originally published in 1963
by Ole B. Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In recent years, the social sciences have taken a ‘mobilities turn’. There has been a developing realisation that mobilities do not ‘just happen’. Mobilities are carefully and meticulously designed, planned and staged (from above). However, they are equally importantly acted out, performed...
by Karolin Frank
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part...