Urban category: 4425 books
Territories and urbanisation in South Africa
Atlas and geo-historical information system (DYSTURB)
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The DYSTURB database collates, harmonises and inter-relates over time the following different elements: a set of political, administrative and functional maps of the districts, provinces and urban areas; the demographic and administrative data for all South African localities from 1911. In all, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can claim full use and access hides a reality of constant negotiation, conflict and surveillance. This collection uses case studies concerning the management, use, and transgression of public space to invite...
Griffintown
Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. Once a destination for many from the Emerald Isle, Montreal saw Irish immigration dwindle in the late nineteenth century. Irish culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
A city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at all stages must work at an intersection...
Unleashing Economic Growth
Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The book provides an overview of the economic, political, and social environment in Nepal and the challenges confronting the country in eliciting its economic growth potential. The book provides an insightful framework of an inclusive development strategy in the context of symbiotic relationships...
by Raymond Charles Rauscher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book examines the neighborhoods of New York City to determine to what extent planning in New York addresses Sustainable City Principles (SCPs). Part I looks at the background to planning urban areas in the face of global urban changes. These changes (i.e. population movements and densification...
Domestic fortress
Fear and the new home front
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige...
Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)
An Operational Research Approach to the Processes of Public Planning
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their capacity...
Arrival Infrastructures
Migration and Urban Social Mobilities
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2018
This volume introduces a strategic interdisciplinary research agenda on arrival infrastructures. Arrival infrastructures are those parts of the urban fabric within which newcomers become entangled on arrival, and where their future local or translocal social mobilities are produced as much as negotiated....
Geographies of Disruption
Place Making for Innovation in the Age of Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
This book looks at the uncharted territory between innovation activities and place making efforts to cultivate them. ‘Geographies of Disruption’ aims to fill that gap by exploring the growing importance of place making for knowledge generation and innovation activities in contemporary cities,...
Form, Space and Design
From the Persian to the European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2019
This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities. It can be considered a guide to design, presenting qualitative criteria to satisfy practical needs. The subject is explored through interconnected chapters, each addressing an important aspect of form-space and design...
Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change
Uncomfortable positions in local government
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
How are multiculturalism, inequality and belonging understood in the day-to-day thinking and practices of local government? Examining original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects' linked with community cohesion policy: diversity,...
by Ruiquan Gao, Guanjun Wu
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Studies on Contemporary China collects important research findings of China's contemporary political, economic and social studies conducted by the academics at East China Normal University (ECNU) in recent years. This book covers topics including rural-urban integration, reflection on the future of...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
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