Urban category: 4425 books
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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Alternative Urban Futures
Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop...
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...
by Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2008
Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it—by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.
Lost Youth in the Global City
Class, Culture, and the Urban Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to be subject to constant surveillance both from the formal agencies of the state and from the informal challenge of competing youth groups? What is life like for young people living on the fringe of global cities in late modernity,...
Urban Housing Markets
Recent Directions in Research and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
The Conference on Urban Housing Markets sponsored by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies in October 1977 was the first major conference on housing to be held in Canada since the First Canadian Housing Conference sponsored by the Canadian Welfare Council in 1968.
This volume is at once...
The Connected City
How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can be examined as networks, and these urban networks can be examined at many different levels.
The book focuses on three...
by A.E.J. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history ofthe postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose...
The Media City
Media, Architecture and Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
"If only more new media commentators had this level of historical-critical reference, engaging, good stories, and a degree of wonder at what media and windows bring to the city, to life."
- John Hutnyk, Goldsmiths, University of London
"Just when you thought the last word had...
by Thomas A. Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition...
Designing Cooler Cities
Energy, Cooling and Urban Form: The Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city cooling. The book discusses the key concepts and issues involved, addressing the three levels of micro (individual buildings), meso (neighbourhoods/districts) and...
Feeding Cities
Improving local food access, security, and resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health. This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health,...