City Planning category: 1330 books
Community Visioning Programs
Processes and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Community visioning is key in helping local public officials and community leaders create a flourishing future for their cities, and is essential for the effective planning and implementation of these strategies. Visioning involves collaborative goal setting to motivate actions – of planners, citizens,...
From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing
Interaction of Communities, Residents and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Socio-political views on housing have been brought to the fore in recent years by global economic crises, a notable rise of international migration and intensified trans-regional movement phenomena. Adopting this viewpoint, From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing maps the current terrain of political...
The City
A World History
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in...
Smart City
How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions...
Walking Home
The Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.
From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services...
Cities of Farmers
Urban Agricultural Practices and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Full-scale food production in cities: is it an impossibility? Or is it a panacea for all that ails urban communities? Today, it’s a reality, but many people still don’t know how much of an impact this emerging food system is having on cities and their residents. This book showcases the work of...
City of Gold
An Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time of Discontent
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
David A. Westbrook argues that we live in "the city of gold"--a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the dominant force in our social life.
Renew Orleans?
Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
Like no other American city, New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina offers powerful insight into issues of political economy in urban development and, in particular, how a city’s character...
Citizen’s Right to the Digital City
Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and...
Urban Maps
Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems, artifacts, interventions and evidences that can inform our understanding of urban...
Governing Urban Economies
Innovation and Inclusion in Canadian City Regions
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Today more than ever, cities matter to the economic and social well-being of the vast majority of Canadians. Canada’s urban centers are simultaneously the engines of the national economy and the places where the risks of social exclusion are most concentrated, making innovative and inclusive urban...
by John McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Approaches to urban regeneration have changed dramatically throughout Europe and the USA over recent decades, drawing on notions of public-private partnership, growth coalitions and local spatial alliances. In this engaging book John McCarthy provides critical consideration of such theories in terms...
Strategies for Urban Development in Leipzig, Germany
Harmonizing Planning and Equity
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...