Urban Regional category: 846 books
Urban Development
The Logic Of Making Plans
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
With increased awareness of the role of plans in shaping urban and suburban landscapes has come increased criticism of planners and the planning profession. Developers, politicians, and citizens alike blame "poor planning" for a hof community ills. But what are plans really supposed to do? How do...
The Organization of Cities
Initiative, ordinary life, and the good life
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book focuses on the relationship between the state and economy in the development of cities. It reviews and reinterprets fundamental theoretical models that explain how the operation of markets in equilibrium shapes the scale and organization of the commercial city in a mixed market economy within...
by Judy L. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level...
Tourism in the City
Towards an Integrative Agenda on Urban Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book critically explores the interconnections between tourism and the contemporary city from a policy-oriented standpoint, combining tourism perspectives with discussion of urban models, issues, and challenges. Research-based analyses addressing managerial issues and evaluating policy implications...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery focuses on disaster recovery from the perspective of urban planning, an underutilized tactic that can significantly reduce disaster risks. The book examines disaster risk reduction (DRR), in particular, the recovery stage of what is widely known as the disaster...
by Junichiro Okata
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Systems of transportation long ago developed out of the profound human need to connect and communicate. Transport today is still the only means for the physical movement of goods and people. Alongside the evolution of transportation and communication technologies, the astounding phenomenon of urbanization...
Multi-regional Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling of the U.S. Economy
USAGE-TERM Development and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book details the preparation of USAGE-TERM, a computable general equilibrium model that provides regional economic detail in the USA. The model can represent either congressional district or state level economic activity. The latter may include a top-down representation of county activity. Interest...
Asian Alterity
With Special Reference to Architecture and Urbanism through the Lens of Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. Part I argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia's cultural differences at their varied development...
Defining the Spatial Scale in Modern Regional Analysis
New Challenges from Data at Local Level
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book explores different approaches to defining the concept of region depending on the specific question that needs to be answered. While the typical administrative spatial data division fits certain research questions well, in many cases, defining regions in a different way is fundamental in...
by Axel Baeumler, Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Shomik Mehndiratta
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The continuing rapid growth and development of China's cities brings many complex challenges. Tasked with supporting strong economic development that provides jobs and a good quality of life for its growing number of residents, China's cities also must ensure sustainable development in line with national...
by Fabio Cutaia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This book explores the opportunities offered by Strategic Environmental Assessment in the context of guaranteeing the synchronized integration of landscape (in all its aspects) within urban plans, thereby helping to overcome the constraints of rigidly framed, sector-focused laws and a purely aesthetic...
Managing the City Economy
Challenges and Strategies in Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy. It explores key challenges and strategies, particularly in developing countries, where developmental deficits are greatest and almost all urban growth...
Urban Sustainability
Reconnecting Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.
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The Emergence of the Knowledge Economy
A Regional Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Knowledge has in recent years become a key driver for growth of regions and nations. This volume empirically investigates the emergence of the knowledge economy in the late 20th century from a regional point of view. It first deals with the theoretical background for understanding the knowledge economy,...