City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development
Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities...
Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA
Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries...
Music-City. Sports-City. Leisure-City.
A reader on different concepts of culture, creative industries and urban regeneration attempts.
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2008
Anthology from the year 2008 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, University of Weimar (Institut für Europäische Urbanistik ), 333 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Music-City. Sports-City. Leisure-City.' is the latest publication from the Europäisches Institut für...
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...
Battery Park City
Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing...
Development Asia—Urban Planning Laboratory
January–March 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The rise of Asia's megacities is the upshot of robust economic growth in the region. In turn, the expansion of these centers of industry and commerce is fueling further growth, opening more opportunities for business and employment. With six out of 10 of the world's largest cities in Asia—and eight...
Demystifying Doha
On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Over the past decade or so, the wealth produced by Qatar's oil and gas exports has generated a construction development boom in its capital city of Doha and the surrounding vicinity. Since the late 1990s, the number of inhabitants has grown from less than 400,000 to more than 1.7 million today. In...
by Marion Roberts, Adam Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The night-time economy represents a particular challenge for planners and town centre managers. In the context of liberalised licensing and a growing culture around the '24-hour city', the desire to foster economic growth and to achieve urban regeneration has been set on a collision course with the...
Recent Developments in Chinese Urban Planning
Selected Papers from the 8th International Association for China Planning Conference, Guangzhou, China, June 21 - 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most recent development of Chinese cities. It discusses a broad range of subjects of urban planning, including environmental planning, transportation planning, historical preservation, economic development, geographic information systems (GIS) and...
Changing Space, Changing City
Johannesburg after apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s...
Competitive Cities in the 21st Century
Cluster-Based Local Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Economic challenges in developing Asian countries have become more complex: urban populations are growing at great cost to the environment, climate change has increased risks of natural disasters, and income gaps within and between developing countries are widening. These factors threaten the sustainable...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen. Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development...
The Shape of the City
Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Critics have long voiced concerns about the wisdom of living in cities and the effects of city life on physical and mental health. For a century, planners have tried to meet these issues. John Sewell traces changes in urban planning, from the pre-Depression garden cities to postwar modernism and a...
Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
History, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The development of U.S. urban transportation policy over the past half-century illustrates the changing relationships among federal, state, and local governments. This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s...