City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
Guidance Note
Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban Projects
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades. Investments in urban areas have a strong potential to contribute to inclusive growth, reduce urban poverty, and strengthen social resilience. The Guidance Note on Poverty and Social Dimensions in Urban...
Megacity Mobility Culture
How Cities Move on in a Diverse World
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
What determines how cities move on? The ever-increasing challenges to urban mobility come in many forms, and approaches to address them range from the technically ingenious to attempts to change travel behaviour. Key amongst factors essential to the success of any such approach is whether the urban...
Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization
Lessons from Empowerment Zones
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
For more than one hundred years, governments have grappled with the complex problem of how to revitalize distressed urban areas. In 1995, the original urban Empowerment Zones (Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia) each received a $100 million federal block grant and access...
Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization
New strategies for new challenges—with a focus on the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries...
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...
Urban Informality
Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions...
The City
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines...
Cities and the Politics of Difference
Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to...
by Robert Mark Silverman, Kelly L. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners. This book teaches students entering planning, community development, nonprofit management, social work, and similar...
Town and Country Planning in England and Wales
(Third Edition, Revised)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
The British Town and Country Planning machine is the most sophisticated in the world, yet its inadequacies are only too apparent to those who are familiar with its evolution and operation. During the last decade it has been in a constant state of change in an attempt to come to terms with the needs...
The Community Planning Event Manual
How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their...