Matt - City Planning & Urban Development 1

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwel……続きを見る

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F.……続きを見る

How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Today, we see a broader landscape of regulatory players who are inv……続きを見る

Matt Hern argues that the changing relationship between the urban center and the suburban periphery forces us to rethink the entire identity of the city itself. Today, most of the Western world live……続きを見る

Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it’s easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transformation of commercial strips that often signify a ge……続きを見る

Data on how cities have adapted to changing times: “An excellent analysis of the rise and role of the information sector . . . in regional economic development.” ー Regional Science and Urban Econom……続きを見る

Tiny homes present an ideal move for tent encampment residents, appealing to their sense of ownership and community. 続きを見る

This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning: how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, publi……続きを見る

Essential reading for students and practitioners of urban design, this collection of essays introduces the 6 dimensions of urban design through a range of the most important classic and contemporary……続きを見る

Die Entwicklung der modernen Schweiz ist untrennbar mit der Entwicklung der SBB verbunden: Bis heute ist die Bahn ein Grundpfeiler des Landes. Um die Geschichte des Erfolgsmodells Schweiz fortschrei……続きを見る

Die Bedeutung von Nachbarschaft für das alltägliche Zusammenleben ist bis heute ungebrochen. Jedoch muss das Phänomen einer aktualisierten Betrachtung unterzogen werden, weil sich die nachbarschaftl……続きを見る

Falar de impactos sociais é falar de gente. E falar de gente é falar também daquilo que não se vê, que não se toca, mas que existe e que se pode sentir. É dar lugar e reconhecimento ao império do in……続きを見る

Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and ……続きを見る

Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate. Drawing from case studies acros……続きを見る

COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility. This internation……続きを見る

Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town’s commercial spine and served as the linchpin for community social solidarity. Yet, during the past three decades, a series of economic……続きを見る

Common Ground in a Liquid City represents an innovative approach to urban studies, what we might call a "comparative urban analysis." It's part travelogue, part critique of modern city planning, and……続きを見る

This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the O……続きを見る

An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood. Portland, Oregon, is one of th……続きを見る

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motiv……続きを見る

Over the past few years there has been a proliferation of new kinds of retail space. Retail space has cropped up just about everywhere in the urban landscape: in libraries, workplaces, churches and ……続きを見る

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways. This em……続きを見る

This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut de……続きを見る

In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of……続きを見る

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Raumwissenschaften, Stadt- und Raumplanung, Note: 2,3, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Landesregierung Brandenburgs hat sich im M……続きを見る

Population shifts and an increase in the number of natural (and man-made) disasters are having a profound effect on urban and rural habitats globally. This book brings together for the first time th……続きを見る

In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs displayed a portrait of the Southw……続きを見る

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Study……続きを見る

Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police ……続きを見る

This book uses an international perspective and draws on a wide range of new conceptual and empirical material to examine the sources of conflict and cooperation within the different landscapes of k……続きを見る