City Planning & Urban Development 100

Urban Systems Design: Creating Sustainable Smart Cities in the Internet of Things Era shows how to design, model and monitor smart communities using a distinctive IoT-based urban systems approach. F……続きを見る

An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-cent……続きを見る

**In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towe……続きを見る

New Life in Public Squares investigates the evolution of the public square within the urban form and its meaning to a city’s image. It explores what is driving investment in the creation of new or r……続きを見る

This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logistics and techniques. It brings together literature fro……続きを見る

This book critically assesses the complex urban issues, planning challenges and development opportunities of rapidly growing cities, using Addis Ababa as a case study. Just like other developing cit……続きを見る

Cities across the globe face unprecedented challenges as a result of ever-increasing pressure from climate change, migration, ageing populations and resource shortages. In order to guarantee a susta……続きを見る

Often misunderstood, the New Towns story is a fascinating one of anarchists, artists, visionaries, and the promise of a new beginning for millions of people. New Towns: The Rise Fall and Rebirth off……続きを見る

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerationally enriched environments. Filled with vivid example……続きを見る

What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture? The essays assembled in this volume begin from a common postulate: that arc……続きを見る

Rent control, the governmental regulation of the level of payment and tenure rights for rental housing, occupies a small but unique niche within the broad domain of public regulation of markets. The……続きを見る

This book examines the history and impact of Florida's Comprehensive Planning legislation. Topics include coastal zone management, solid waste planning, land use impacts, planning strategies, and mo……続きを見る

In most planning practice and research, planners work with quantitative data. By summarizing, analyzing, and presenting data, planners create stories and narratives that explain various planning iss……続きを見る

This collection of original essays takes a comprehensive look at Latin America's regional and global foreign policies. The book begins with an assessment of the current state of research in the fiel……続きを見る

This book takes a behavioural approach to examine six important housing questions: tenure decision, gentrification, place attachment, housing bubbles, housing wealth, and residential satisfaction. U……続きを見る

Cities are centres of exciting events, flows, movements and contradictions that produce both opportunities and challenges. Evolved through the centuries, they display layers of spatial, cultural and……続きを見る

How do we rein in the power of Big Tech? How do we tackle the climate crisis? How can all of us play a part in making change happen? For the past four years, Ed Miliband has been discovering and int……続きを見る

Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion. From the 2011 revolution to Sisi’s seizure of power in 2013, like millions of others, Mona Abaza was swallowed by a draining and exhausting daily life of a ……続きを見る

This book presents the changing roles of urban governments and how local governments struggle to gain administrative, fiscal, and political power to combat current urban challenges in Kazakhstan. Fo……続きを見る

This book chronicles and explains the role of suburbs in North American cities since the mid-twentieth century. Examining fifteen case studies from New York to Vancouver, Atlanta to Chicago, Montrea……続きを見る

Small-scale urban greening projects are changing the urban landscape, shifting our experience and understanding of greenspaces in our cities. This book argues that including power dynamics, symbolis……続きを見る

In diesem Buch werden die Grundzüge der Methode der Ökobilanzierung erläutert, aktuelle Bewertungsmethoden vorgestellt sowie praktische Hinweise für den Einstieg gegeben. Ein Exkurs in die Geschicht……続きを見る

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global exper……続きを見る

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It creates a GHG footprint for Indian……続きを見る

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment. However, while cultural mega-events like the European Capital of Culture ……続きを見る

This volume explores recent episodes of progressive citizen-led mobilisation that have spread across Southeast Europe over the past decade. These protests have allowed citizens the opportunity to ch……続きを見る

Che fine ha fatto la città? Che cosa dobbiamo intendere quando diciamo ‘urbano’? La letteratura internazionale ci propone nuove definizioni e interpretazioni che rimandano a un superamento sostanzia……続きを見る

Come gestire l’intensificarsi dei fenomeni meteorologici estremi? Come affrontare le bombe d’acqua e governare l’acqua piovana per prevenire allagamenti ed evitare che congestioni le reti fognarie e……続きを見る

I grandi eventi sono divenuti, per le città che aspirano a ricoprire posizioni di rilievo nello scenario politico ed economico globale, uno strumento routinario di politica urbana. Pur simili – quan……続きを見る

Dopo la lunga fase recessiva e deflattiva, sembrano oggi manifestarsi le condizioni per la ripresa economica, in Europa e, con qualche maggiore incertezza, in Italia. Ma per consolidarla e renderla ……続きを見る