City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Chye Kiang Heng
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
50 Years of Urban Planning in Singapore is an accessible and comprehensive volume on Singapore's planning approach to urbanization. Organized into three parts, the first section of the volume, 'Paradigms, Policies, and Processes', provides an overview of the ideologies and strategies underpinning...
Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2009
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds,...
Green City Planning and Practices in Asian Cities
Sustainable Development and Smart Growth in Urban Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Urban planners across the world are faced with sustainable development issues in their work, especially when they are tasked with creating green cities or where sustainable and smart growth in urban settings are set as primary goals. This book introduces green city planning and practices from the three...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This volume contains essays that examine contemporary urban and regional planning and development in China. Through in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis, it provides insights into the urban policies and operational mechanisms of this colossal transitional economy which has presented unprecedented...
Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future
The Untapped Potential of Big Data Analytics and Context–Aware Computing for Advancing Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed,...
by Yongjie Sha, Jiang Wu, Yan Ji
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book focuses on observing and understanding the urban planning and relevant development patterns applied to the creation of urban districts against the backdrop of the current rapid urbanization and transformation of Shanghai on its way to becoming a world city. Based on a review of the four...
State of the World's Cities 2008/9
Harmonious Cities
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Cities are perhaps one of humanity's most complex creations, never finished, never definitive. They are like a journey that never ends. Their evolution is determined by their ascent into greatness or their descent into decline. They are the past, the present and the future. Cities contain both order...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Time has become an increasingly important topic in urban studies and urban planning. The spatial-temporal interplay is not only of relevance for the theory of urban development and urban politics, but also for urban planning and governance. The space-time approach focuses on the human being with its...
Market Cities, People Cities
The Shape of Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen
How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson...
Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility
Global Report on Human Settlements 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for...
by Muhammad Rayan, Edward Gyan, Ivaldi Lukman
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: Good, University of Stuttgart (Master of Infrastructure Planning), course: Case study, language: English, abstract: The County of Ludwigsburg, with the City of Ludwigsburg as its capital, is located at the core of...
by B W Namano
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Project Report from the year 2015 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 1, University of Nairobi (School of Continuing and Distance Education), course: Masters of Arts in Project Planning and Management (MAPPM), language: English, abstract: The purpose of the study was to establish how...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Urbanization in Asia is expected to reach 55% by 2030 and 64% by 2050 to constitute 53% of the world's urban population and contribute half the world's gross domestic product. But as cities swell, they also struggle with environmental degradation, traffic congestion, inadequate urban infrastructure,...
Urban Complexity and Planning
Theories and Computer Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
In recent years, there has been a new understanding of how cities evolve and function, which reflects the emergent paradigm of complexity. The crux of this view is that cities are created by differentiated actors involved in individual, small-scale projects interacting in a complex way in the urban...