Urban category: 4425 books
Planning and Conflict
Critical Perspectives on Contentious Urban Developments
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Planning and Conflict discusses the reasons for conflicts around urban developments and analyzes their shape in contemporary cities. It offers an interdisciplinary framework for scholars to engage with the issue of planning conflicts, focusing on both empirical and theoretical inquiry.
By reviewing...
Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs
The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures. The author explores Warren’s attempt to develop planning strategies, culturally-based initiatives, community...
by Julia Wardhaugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Youth homelessness increased rapidly during the late 1980s and early 1990s, at a time when street homelessness in particular became increasingly associated in the popular mind with dangerousness and criminality. This book analyzes the construction of homelessness as a social and legal 'problem' and...
by Silva Tony
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: In his definition, Fogg (2008) observes that town planning regulations are rules that govern land use and design of the environment, inclusive of transport...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The term "Green City" has many different meanings to different people. There is no universal solution that can be applied to every city. Adaptable, responsive, and innovative solutions that differ from one place to another enable Green Cities to emerge in various forms and enable us to recognize...
Designing the Global City
Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and sustainable. It focuses on the experience of central...
Urban Public Housing in Northern Nigeria
The Search for Indigeneity and Cultural Practices in Design
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book provides readers with two major practical insights. Firstly, on the basis of statistical inquiry it identifies the significance of socio-cultural elements that encourage user-instigated transformation. Secondly, it employs layout pattern analysis to distinguish transformation patterns, hence...
The Accidental Playground
Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate of...
Seeing Trees
A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanity’s changing relationship with nature and the city
Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja...
by Michael Batty
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.
We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities...
A City's Architecture
Aberdeen as 'Designed City'
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. In addition, the more diffuse patterns of settlement of the north and western parts of Europe are hardly considered...
Dangerous or Endangered?
Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
How do you tell the difference between a “good kid” and a “potential thug”? In Dangerous or Endangered?, Jennifer Tilton considers the ways in which children are increasingly viewed as dangerous and yet, simultaneously, as endangered and in need of protection by the state.
Tilton draws on...
Community Education and Crime Prevention
Confronting Foreground and Background Causes of Criminal Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Paperback released by IAP in May, 2008 Scholars in various disciplines are recommending comprehensive measures to solve multiple societal as well as individual problems. The philosophy of "community education" has been overlooked but is a workable, comprehensive approach to addressing crime....
The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City
Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its economy...